|
|||||||||||||||||||
|
Welcome to day five of our activities for toddlers series. We’ve already looked at sensory play, arts and crafts, maths games and imaginary play and today we have some lovely playful ideas for reading, writing and songs that are just right for toddlers.
Activities for toddlers :: reading, writing and songs 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 » Growing sunflowers with children? Download our free sunflower activities ebook. Have you ever tried writing poetry with children? So far this summer the Sunflower Club has inspired us with measurement, science, art, numbers and biology and today we’re tried out some poems about sunflowers.
We had a go with two different prompts. The first was to take each letter of the word ‘sunflower’ and see if we could find another word beginning with that letter which suited our flowers. This worked well for my 7 year old but didn’t click with my four year old. For the second prompt we used some starter sentences to brainstorm ideas. For example… A sunflower is…. The sunflower’s colour is… A sunflower is tall like… The petals are like… We then took the ‘answers’ and combined them to make our poem. Here’s what we came up with – what do you think? Sunshine Up to the sky Nodding Fiery Lovely Over our heads Wonderful Extremely tall Radiant ***************************** Bright, beautiful, radiant colour Like a lion’s mane Tall as a mountain, up to the sky Happy and sunny and radiant And don’t forget you are invitied to our Sunflower Club linky party on August 25th. If you have been growing sunflowers or doing any sunflower activities over the summer please come and share your ideas with us. Whether you’ve a tip for planting, advice for growing giants, sunflower pictures or crafts, please come and link up with us.
Happily shared with…
 |
11,202 families already receive our Play Planner!
     
 
 
             |
||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||
