Homeschoolingmama

We were kindly sent a copy of Scoop magazine to review. The magazine is aimed at 7+, and it is ' a feast of words and pictures for kids.'  First Impressions Upon opening up the magazine, we were positively surprised with the quality and quantity of content. There is enough content in the magazine to keep a child entertained and busy for a long while. The best thing about Scoop magazine is, the fact that there aren't any adverts. It is rather frustrating at times, when a children's magazine is full of adverts for days out or toys, not only does it feel like you've paid to see adverts, but they're a distraction and the space can be better used with quality content. The magazine, contents and structure Issue 20 of Scoop magazine is all about imagination. What an interesting topic, that is rarely thought or talked about in our house! I won't bore you with the finer details, but will outline some of the articles little person has enjoyed the most, a...

Handwriting and creative writing notebook My 7 year old  excitedly  held up his new notebooks and  exclaimed  with happiness, 'I now have the tools to write away!' As  we've  both been so thrilled with the notebooks,  I  thought a blogpost was in order! We have the lovely handwriting notebook and the creative writing notebook. Continue reading for our impressions of the two... Notebook of story writing  The first thing about the story writing notebook is the lovely cover. It is a great design, both child friendly but not too young for a 7 year old boy! 'Let the adventure begin...' is a great caption for the cover of a notebook to be filled with all sorts of adventures.  Within the notebook, there is a mountain of knowledge, making story writing so much easier and fun. I love how the notebook begins with an explanation of adjectives, and examples to work through.  This fantas...

Little person has struggled with creative writing for sometime. He fell in love with the idea of writing after watching and reading 'captain Underpants' -finished the series! It was more of a struggle with trying to get the idea onto paper.  We tried a few workbooks, worksheets but they all seemed to quickly work through the important ideas, which is great, but we needed something that focussed on each point at a slower pace. So you can imagine how thrilled I was to find 'The Usborne creative writing book'.  THE BOOK The reasons this book is so good, is not only because to works on each idea at what I feel is a lovely slow pace to ensure the idea is embedded, but the fact that it opens up different styles of writing and ideas.  The book works through character building, and a fab way it starts this is by working on the person completing the tasks. Little person had a lot of fun noting important information about himself, whic...