Category: Teaching Ideas
Category: Teaching Ideas
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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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.
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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
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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
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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
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