These little alphabet books are the cutest ever! I love tiny books and from the huge response to these free Little Math Books I guess it’s not just me! Luckily, kids like them too and get a real kick out of making an 8-page book from one piece of paper. So today it’s the alphabet. […]
Syllables When You Only Have A Minute
Learning about syllables is important for developing readers and writers. Not only is it fun, but kids gain confidence when they can hear the smaller sounds that make up words. Getting the hang of syllables is a PERFECT skill to practice in short bursts so it’s also perfect for our ‘when you only have a minute’ […]
Hands On Weekly Activity Plans: A Review
Today I’m doing something I’ve never done before… a product review. And the reason is because I believe you’ll find these activity plans from Jamie at Hands On: As We Grow hugely helpful and useful. I was not given the product for review, and there are no affiliate links here. I bought the weekly activity […]
End of Year Treasure Keepers
At the end of the school year we like children to have a keepsake to remind them of the year and their friends. One way of doing this is for the children to write little notes or draw pictures to give to each other. Even having small paper scraps with their friends’ names on them […]
Storytelling with Jack and Jill
Storytelling is deeply ingrained in all cultures and for young children it is a way of expressing what is flowing through their imaginations. Storytelling is also an excellent approach in developing early literacy skills such as understanding how stories are put together, expanding children’s vocabulary and how to use words to change or edit the […]
Mother’s Day Cards for Kids to Make
These Mother’s Day cards are great because you can make them as simple or as difficult as you like, depending on the fine motor skills of your little ones. What you’ll need The free downloadable Mother’s Day Card templates Red, white and pink paper (for the top piece) and card for the base piece Glue […]
Pre-Writing Skills: Essential for Early Learners
PLEASE NOTE: You can listen to this article in podcast format over here! Most research on early writing has focused on lower primary-aged children which means studies on younger children (from 2-5 years) are a little thin. One of the causes of this was the long-held philosophy that very young children would learn what they […]
Word Family Dice and Board Games
Today’s focus is word families and these two board games will give your little ones tons of practice with -in words. They’ll be having so much fun they won’t realise they’re learning! There is one game for three-letter -in words, and one for four-letter -in words which will help you differentiate for your kids and […]
Writing When You Only Have A Minute (with sentence sticks)
I really love these sentence sticks. They’re so quick to create and easy to use! If you’re new to my blog, each month I create a learning activity that can be done in only a few minutes – some take 60 seconds or less. This series of blog posts can be found here. Depending on […]
Easter Early Readers and Bookmarks
Easter is coming! This gives us another opportunity to naturally add a little reading and writing into our children’s lives. These 2 Easter early readers are made with dotted writing for early writers to trace and colour. Simply print and fold into 4 to make a book. There are also 3 different bookmarks in colour and […]