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LEGO® math games

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Do your kids love LEGO®? Just manipulating the pieces, snapping them together and pulling them apart is a great work out for fingers, helping to develop fine-motor skills, but Lego is a classic open-ended toy that can be used in so many different ways by creative kids.  My girls most often use their Lego to build imaginary buildings or enclosures for their toy animals but recently L has been using them in lot of math games.

Fantastic ideas for lego maths games - fun learning!
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How to spell: top 10 tricks

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how to spell

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When I think back to the ways I learnt how to spell as a child, there was no fun or creative play involved. We got  list of ten words every week, we copied them, we copied them, we copied them again, and then we had a test on a Friday to see how well we could remember them. We also had to put our hands up to show the whole class our scores, so if you hadn’t remembered that many it was pretty miserable.

But learning how to spell doesn’t have to be like that. Here are ten ways we learn spellings in our house – with lots of creativity and fun and jumping around involved.

There are lots of different ways that children learn and these  spelling activities cover a range of preferred learning styles: visual/spacial, auditory, kinesthetic… If your child has a very strong learning preference trying out these ideas might help you discover a way that’s just right for them (it’s helped enormously in our house). In any case, all children can benefit from learning through a variety of ways, using all their senses, mixing things up a little so it doesn’t get boring, and maybe even enjoying learning how to spell.

The activities may take a few minutes longer to set up then just grabbing a pencil and paper but we’ve found they are a whole lot more fun – and effective – than just copying out the words.

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Three to Five: Playful Preschool

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play based preschool curriculum

 

Give your child a preschool experience that is fun, creative, and supportive.

Three to Five: playful preschool equips you with a wealth of easy activities that you can use to help your child learn through hands-on explorations.

It guides you through math, language, science, art, and play, showing you how to provide an engaging, age-appropriate curriculum that your children will love.

This ebook is an excellent resource for you whether you are at home, in a childcare setting, or in a preschool.

The ideas in the ebook are adaptable, with lots of suggestions for ways to extend the learning, and to include slightly younger or older children.

Get your copy for only $8.99 and you’re all set for a wonderful preschool year!

 

 

play based preschool curriculum

 

What’s included in Three to Five: playful preschool?

Three to Five: playful preschool will show you how to explore and learn across the curriculum, giving your child a rich and interesting learning environment, including:

:: math – with counting cards, sorting games, block tower printables, shape puzzles, and activities that explore size and patterns

:: language – with ideas for mark making, sensory letter activities, book explorations, conversation starters, sticker bag stories, and a ‘my first journal’ printable

:: sensory – with ideas including water play, play dough and oobleck

:: fine motor skills – including lacing, loose parts, and block play

:: imagination – with a fun play town printable

:: creativity – with invitations to explore collage, printmaking, and painting

:: science – with force experiments and a guide to nature discovery centers

 

preschool activities

 

 

 

Added extras with Three to Five

You will also receive a fantastic set of printable resources including:

  • My First Journal
  • a city-scene for pretend play
  • alphabet cards for multi-sensory literacy learning
  • number-game cards
  • building-block challenge cards
  • recipe card for your first baking adventure
  • conversation cards to promote language and emotional skills
  • a set of bookmarks to explore reading and storytelling
  • a set of printables to make a weather and nature study centre
  • unique hand-drawn art pages

And as an added extra, the ebook includes links to over 50 more activities that focus on hands-on, playful learning for preschoolers – giving you a huge set of resources, all in one place.

 

 

 

 

Give your child the best preschool experience with Three to Five

 

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