Year: 2014
Year: 2014
Paper Christmas Wish Tree
Just 10 pages of yellow A4 paper and about 10 sheets of Green A4 paper and voila…. a beautiful Paper Christmas tree. It was such a hit in the classroom today – I love my colleagues idea of adding stars with childrens wishes on and doesn’t it look amazing! Our room is starting to feel
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Just 10 pages of yellow A4 paper and about 10 sheets of Green A4 paper and voila…. a beautiful Paper Christmas tree. It was such a hit in the classroom today – I love my colleagues idea of adding stars with childrens wishes on and doesn’t it look amazing! Our room is starting to feel
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Thanksgiving
So, I’m a bit slow joining on on Thanksgiving but we had fun at the weekend! As I tried out some things with Freya and Seb my mind turns to what we wil do in class on Thursday and I want to share with you. Hand printing turkeys. First we prepared the paint – we
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Christmas Gift Ideas – 2014
So what will you be buying for Christmas presents this year? Here are a few gift ideas of either things I have seen and will be getting this Christmas or bits we have bought throughout the year and have been a huge success. It does include affiliate links – but the opinions are completely my
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British Animals
Animals of United Kingdom. I have been wanting to do soe activities on both nocturnal animals and animals that migrate, hibernate or adapt. As I was making some lists of animals it occured to me that I needed to make a more generic set of cars BUT that I should then make some cards for
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All about Weather
Since we were going away on holiday Freya has shown a real interest in the weather so I have worked on some different weather ideas. First I started by reading the book Oh Say Can You Say What’s The Weather Today. I love these books as they introduce topics in a ‘Cat in the Hat’
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Supporting Spelling at home
Spelling Freya has just started getting spellings at school. As a parent it is the first time I have had to deal with ‘home work’. I want to be able to support Freya with her work, however, I want to also help her to do things independently if she wants to. Her school uses the
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Remembrance Day – Including finger knitted Poppy tutorial
Remembrance day – 11th November. With young children I think this is a hard area to cover – but also a very important area to cover. To try encourage appreciation in a very spoilt generation is difficult. Where the Poppies now Grow I will be sharing a beautiful book that I have come across with
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Slime – Borax or not Borax..
Slime!! To Borax or not borax that is the question! When I started making slime I could purchase Borax from Amazon – not a problem, but over the years I have seen more and more Borax free slime recipies on Blogs. The majority coming out of the US. These always seem to have ingredients that
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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
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