Month: October 2014
Month: October 2014
Handwriting – Cursive script
Following on from my post about print letter formation here is Part 2 – a guide for cursive handwriting. Freya’s new school uses cursive writing so I have been doing some research on how to support her. I want to do it in a way that she can independently check her letter formation so I
Helping with Letter Reversal
Here are some helpful tricks we use to help with letter reversal. I know there are lots out there but this one we have found to be the least confusing. There are two here for b and d as well as p and g. If you know any more please share on my facebook page.
Halloween – Free Printables
I have recently done two halloween blogs – have you seen them? Blog 1 ideas for Pumpkin maths, DIY halloween window gels and spider investigations! Blog 2 has ideas on how to make a toy spider, Halloween feely bag game and Hammering golf tees into a pumpkin! Great fun!! Today I wanted to share links
Diwali celebration
Just a quick post as it is the last day of Diwali – here are some activities I will be doing with Freya and Seb throughout the day. First we looke at some Diwali photo cards – it was great to start a discussion about Diwali with the kids. Afterwards we looked at this Diwali
Halloween – we just can’t stop!
Here are some more ideas for Halloween – we’ve had great fun doing them I hope you enjoy them too! Window Gels As we are having friends over on Friday Freya wanted to decorate the house – I saw a great post on Pinterest about window gels from TeachingMama. You basically mix 2 tablespoons of
Learning about Space
As I posted earlier in the week Freya and Seb have been fascinated by the stars and moon at the moment. I suppose it makes up for the early dark nights we’re having that the children can see the moon and stars before bedtime! So our starting point – the Night sky.
New space printables
I am getting ready for the weekend – we are going to be looking at space! It is getting dark so early here in the UK at the moment that the kids are loving looking at the stars. I have just created a new astronomy category in my downloads section why not take a look.
Geometric Solids extension
If you read my post about whales you will have seen the wonderful 3D boat picture that Freya came up with. It reminded me of this fantastic extension for the geometric solids. I can’t take the credit for the idea – it was in one of the presentations at the MCI Annual conference. I have
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