Se7en's Reviews for PanMacmillan South Africa

This is the time of year when all the beautiful gift books are published and this year is no exception. There is a pile of lovely lovely giftable reads that we have been reading our way through, so that we could share them with you. We are working our way up from books for the …

I have been pondering how we actually get math done around here, which can be fairly far from what I intend math to look like. I’m old school, look at a couple of problems everyday, stretch your brain a little and then move on. My kids, not so much… they don’t love math, they definitely …

We have been writing a series of reviews for a while now, the latest and greatest picture books, fabulous fact books for children, easy chapter books, chapter books and now at last the tween/teen reads. We have split this post into books that are appropriate for tweens and half way down the post, books for …

The life and times of a home schooling mom of se7en + 1.

Every now and then a book crosses our path that is literally pure fun… as fun for the parents reading as it is for the children being read to, because lets face it a good book is a good book, whatever your age. Our book of the week is Five Minute’s Peace by Jill Murphy, …

So we are taking a break and having a bit of a holiday in the city… we do this from time to time, we swap houses with folk that live in the city center. When you have eight kids, house swapping is a great way to take a holiday. Apart from the fact that we …

I blogged about books throughout March, and now that it is April… nothing has changed. Brace yourself for a whole lot more book posts. First up is a post about the recent PanMacmillan showcase for children’s books, this is a highlight of our literary year and my gang is fully committed to it… year after …

The life and times of a home schooling mom of se7en + 1.