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We used our favourite easy no cook playdough recipe and added the black colouring and plenty of glitter. L said it looked like a planet from outer space – so we searched out some other alien items to play with. Read more »
If you’re out and about this summer grab a map and add some literacy lessons.1. Giving a map to the children and following your route as you go is a great lesson in geography. Look out for landmarks, talk about left and right and the points of the compass. What words can they spot on the map to match up with what they see on their journey? Read more »
Once you’re passed the nursery rhyme stage, do you still enjoy sharing poetry with your children?We recognise the important value of nursery rhymes for very young children, as they pass on the sounds and rhythms of our native languages, but the value of poetry doesn’t diminish as children get older. Approached with passion, poetry can be inspiring, and how it’s shared with children makes a vital difference to their engagement with it. Read more » A very simple but effective way to encourage your children’s writing when you’re going out shopping is to have the children write the list. This shows them that writing has a purpose and involves them in serious, grown-up business. Don’t worry too much about spellings and neatness, the idea is to promote writing as something . . . → Read More: Literacy ideas: shopping lists We’re enjoying the warm weather this week and the opportunity to play outside in the sunshine. As well as playing in their rock pool, the children have been cooking up sand pies and pebble cakes in their play kitchen. Do you have an outdoor cooking area for your kids? As you can see, ours was improvised by . . . → Read More: Kitchen role play ideas Put down your books! You don’t often hear me actively encouraging children not to read but have you ever tried oral story telling with your children and having them make the story up? Children most often have stories told to them, so let them be the story teller for a change. Help them stretch their imaginations, practise . . . → Read More: Storytelling with children  |
   
                    
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