In my years of home educating, learning has always been hands-on, engaging, and full of fun! Using the 10 Frame with 0–10 Acorns is a wonderful way to bring this approach into your child’s maths journey. You can also use real acorns after collecting...
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The Joyful Discovery Club Blog
Fungi have a way of slowing you down. One appears at the edge of a path and suddenly there are questions - how did it get there? What’s underneath? Is it a plant? (Nope.) Why does the forest smell different after rain? Affiliate Note: Some of ...
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I saw them. The Pinterest-perfect leaf prints. The painted pinecones arranged just so. The elaborate Autumn crafts with the perfect amount of glitter. I felt that familiar tug of guilt, you know the one - "we are not doing enough", "may...
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There’s a quiet kind of magic in the moment after rain. Roads glisten, air smells new, and children somehow find every puddle within a hundred-metre radius. While we see wet socks, they see the opportunity to splash, observe, and make sense of the w...
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Rainy days don’t have to mean cabin fever, they can be perfect for exploring patterns, measurement, and a little colour magic. Grab a coat, a brolly, a ruler, and maybe a flask of something warm. There’s a lot to learn in those puddles. There’s som...
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Every autumn, the internet floods with glowing pumpkins wearing witch hats, black cats, big bats, and skeletons in bow ties. Everywhere you look you are swamped by Halloween 🦇 And every autumn, I quietly skip over them. Not because I hate Halloween,...
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If you’ve ever watched a child wander through a park or on the beach, you’ll notice it doesn’t take long before they are collecting pockets full of random objects such as a feather, a pebble, a shell, a crumpled leaf, maybe a mysterious seed pod. To...
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We had planned to go see Wicked, a show we had wanted to see for such a long time! But the good old train strikes struck again! Leaving absolutely panic in our house filled with neurodivergent children. ‘Change’ is a swear word in our house Our trai...
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We have already had the spectacular six planet line up in January, but in February 2025, a rare celestial event with seven visible planets will unfold. From February 21 to 28, the planets—Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, along with Neptune and...
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Why not head out into your garden, go on a nature walk, and observe the birds? This is an ideal opportunity to get out of the house, especially if the children are full of energy and cannot focus. We have some ideal learning activities to take with ...
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We rarely looked at maths on a worksheet, especially fractions, volume and measurements! It may have been once or twice in a lifetime because my kids needed hands-on. It is good for their fine motor skills too, which help with writing when they are ...
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I am Catherine Elizabeth, founder of The Joyful Discovery Club. Since 2011, I've had the joy and challenge of educating my three children at home, embracing an interest-led learning approach that has seen us grow together in unexpected and delightful ways.