Letter L … … can be LOVELY and LACEY… And letter L can be LEARNING to walk on the LINES …. … and LISTENING to stories about LADYBIRDS… ‘What the ladybird heard’ – Julia Donaldson ‘The bad tempered ladybird’ – Eric Carle ‘Ten little ladybirds’ – Melanie Gerth … playing with LADYBIRDS… … and using [...]
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Letter L !
Posted in Arts and Crafts, Books, In The Kitchen, Letters and Numbers, Nature, Role play on May 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Letter F
Posted in Arts and Crafts, Books, Building and discovery, Letters and Numbers, Nature, Role play, Seasonal, Sensory on May 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Letter F…. …. is for FLUFFY, FEATHERY, FURRY F…. F is also for FRUIT and FRUIT kebabs… F is for FISH… (three paper plates cut and stapled accordingly) so FUN to make… …and some FANTASTIC FISHY books… ‘Hooray for fish’ – Lucy Cousins ‘The Curious Fish’ – Elsa Beskov ‘Fish is fish’ – Leo Lionni [...]
Letter W!
Posted in Arts and Crafts, Books, Building and discovery, Letters and Numbers, Nature, Role play, Sensory on May 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Letter W….! Is for WHALES making WAVES in WATER… It is also for whale song. And the story of ‘Jonah and the whale’ in this book. W is also for WASHING… …WEAVING… And also for WEEDING… … a good way to find WORMS… …for starting a WORMERY. W is also for WIND. After observing the [...]
Letter V !
Posted in Arts and Crafts, Building and discovery, Letters and Numbers, Nature, Role play on May 8, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Letter V ! Was VERY fun! We studied an African VIOLET… …which we then painted, and tried to mix as many different colours of VIOLET as we could …. We made a VOLCANO from mud… …which we ‘exploded’ using water, white VINEGAR, red food coloring and bicarbonate of soda… We painted VASES using clean jars… [...]
Letter M !
Posted in Arts and Crafts, Books, Letters and Numbers, Sensory on April 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Letter M ! Is for the making of delicious chocolate MUFFINS… ….the tasting of MUFFINS, MANGO and MILK…. M is for MARBLE painting…. M is for a MEAL of MEATBALLS and MACARONI… M is for MOUSE….and books about MICE… ‘Whose mouse are you?’ ‘The town mouse and the country mouse’ ‘The Clever mouse’ And M [...]
Letter A !
Posted in Arts and Crafts, Books, In The Kitchen, Letters and Numbers, Nature on March 29, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Last week we did letter…. Really I think the vowels should be left until last because of the long and short sounds. However, we started with O because it is the simplest shape, and Alfie so much wanted to do A – because, of course, Alfie begins with A! A is for APPLE… …which we [...]
Letter T !
Posted in Arts and Crafts, Awesome Alfie's Art & Stuff, Books, Building and discovery, Letters and Numbers, Role play on March 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
This week we had some unwell children, but we managed to go ahead with…. ….Letter T ! We made a TINY TISSUE paper T… We had a TACO dinner… We bought and painted TULIPS… We made letters from TWIGS… …and made a TWIG garden… ….for which we made TURTLES… (and many other creatures!) And TREASURE… [...]
Letter R !
Posted in Arts and Crafts, Awesome Alfie's Art & Stuff, Books, Building and discovery, Letters and Numbers, Marvelous Maya's Creations, Sensory, The art of media and technology on March 14, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Letter R… …is of course for RED… And RHYMES… (the kids have always loved these silly non-sensical rhyming books) And RAINBOWS… Even rainbows in our bubble station were observed… R is also for many wonderful stories. Such as RED RIDING HOOD sand RAPUNZEL. Both of which we enjoyed reading on the fabulous interactive Grimm’s apps. [...]
Letter ‘S’
Posted in Arts and Crafts, Awesome Alfie's Art & Stuff, Books, Building and discovery, Discovering Sweden, In The Kitchen, Letters and Numbers, Role play, Sensory on March 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Last week we covered letter S. S is a wonderful letter. So many things to do – we didn’t have enough time for it all…. S is for SHINY… And STICKING… S is for SNAKE… Of many different kinds… Toilet tube snakes. Play-dough snakes. Biscuit snakes. (Also good for learning repeating patterns!) S is for [...]
Letter O!
Posted in Arts and Crafts, In The Kitchen, Letters and Numbers on February 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Alfie is seriously starting to learn to read and write. He quite liked the idea of reinforcing a letter a week… Letter O. Letter O is for many things… O is for many different shades of the colour orange. And looks like O shaped cereal… O is for an Octopus’ garden… (Don’t forget to check [...]
