The Wee ‘Un’s weekly homework for primary school includes a list of words that he’s to practice using a number of strategies. One of the strategies is to look the words up in a dictionary, then write a definition into his jotter. Last week’s words included neighbour, grub, reindeer, weight, children, eight, eighty and slug.
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The Big Lad’s take on homework
14 March, 2011
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The Big Lad’s weekly homework includes a list of words that he has to write out half a dozen times before using them in sentences. His most recent list included “portable” and “primrose”. His sentences?
Read moreLinks for the Big Lad’s P6/7 class
28 September, 2010
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The Big Lad’s P6/7 class are studying crofting at the moment, so they’ve been looking at the blog to find out what we do around our croft. I’ve pulled together a few links to make it easier for them. Some of the selected pages describe what we do, others are collections of photographs of the [...]
Read moreMaking sausages
26 February, 2010
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The boys may have thought they were in for a day of leisure when they discovered the snow had stopped them from going to school, but I soon put them right. As well as finishing the school work I gave them yesterday, they also found themselves lined for the educational chore of making sausages. As [...]
Read moreOff to meet management expectations
8 January, 2010
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The overnight temperature dropped to -13.2 C. The council have not ploughed our access road since the last snowfall. They haven’t gritted it for days. The road between our croft and the village has been ploughed, but is covered in compacted snow and ice.
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