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Philosophy for Children

Home Talk - This resource is provided by Dialogue Works who offer support in P4C and Thinking Moves. Little Chatters are also a trainer for Dialogue Works. Here are some of our favourite home talks, linked to themes we enjoy working on.

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Home talk week 2 . It includes one of my favourites the giving tree (nice to do outside by a tree if you can!) 

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Home talk week 3 here. Includes some lovely 'Would you rathers' and free hugs!

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Home talk week 12 - Lovely resources to discuss fairness, inequality and injustice.

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Home talk week 13 - Resources to support in exploring our local communities

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Home talk week 15 - Beauty. We would also recommend exploring this concept outside.

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Home talk week 16 - Some  fun games

Home talk week 17 - With a lovely focus on Inventions - one of our favourites to explore.

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Home talk week 19 - Change. Again a great concept to link to the outdoors

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Home talk week 20 - Journeys

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Home talk week 23 - The black curriculum

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Home talk week 27 - Robots

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Home talk week 29 - Nature

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Home talk week 31 - Conservation

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Home talk week 33 - Play.  

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Home talk week 34 - Gratitude

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Home talk week 35 - Pets. The timing of this home talk linked nicely to our Philosofun on pets. Some great additional resources here!

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Pobble 365 - An image a day to promote discussion and promote literacy work. 

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Philosophy Man - Home schooling section, brainsqueezers

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Philosophy Foundation - A lovely blog by Pieter Mostert

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Resources from the Center for Philosophy for Children, Washington exploring concepts such as worry and boredom. Download here.

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SAPERE A full database of P4C resources from 

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Challenging learning. Some fantastic home learning resources 

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KidsCoachApp Kavin Wadhar has developed the KidsCoachApp  based around short questions to get families thinking, talking and feeling together. The app includes a section of questions linked to P4C.

Outdoor Learning

Learning Through Landscapes Outdoor Learning and Play for Parents Educating at Home  A Facebook group focused on outdoor learning . Little Chatters are also a trainer for Learning through Landscapes so  contribute ideas to this group.

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Download week one here

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Download week two here

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Week 3 with lots of Easter linked activities

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Week 4 with a focus on green fingers!

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Week 5 - Loose parts play

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Week 6- Your local area

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Week 7 - Survival skills, including; campfire cookery and knots (great also if your little ones are working to any outdoor badges in beavers/cubs)

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Week 8 -  A nice bit of maths

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Week 9 - Literacy focused

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Week 10 - Creative activities

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Tree top trumps from Foresty England - download here

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Some really lovely resources from Muddy Faces in their Outdoor Activity hub

Global Education

Some lovely home learning activities from Oxfam Education

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Cumbria Development Education Centre Including weekly home education resources

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