In The Hands Of A Child Archives - The Curriculum Choice

March 11, 2019 by: Shirley Ann

In The Hands Of A Child : Wild Weather

We are heading to ‘that’ time of the year where we begin making lists of curriculum that we would like to include for the next academic year. Apart from my choices in core curriculum, I often included (when my children were younger) a lapbook or notebook unit study on a subject that interested my children. This way we were able to explore a theme that

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May 25, 2016 by: Shirley Ann

In The Hands Of A Child :: Horses

To encourage independent learning when my girls were younger, I would buy a ‘In The Hands Of A Child’ lapbook and give it to them to work through on their own. Obviously we would have a chat on how to utilize the resource and if they got stuck I was available to help out. These would often be interest led topics. For example, my daughter went

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