Garden Crafts for Kids
The sun is shining and the garden is beckoning. These garden craft ideas for kids of all ages are great…
Crafts and Activities for Elementary Aged Kids
Easter Race to 100 Maths Game
When I taught mathematics I remember having a giant hundred’s chart in my classroom we would work on counting backwards…
Plastic Egg Easter Time Tables Practice
With our Easter Egg hunt over we are left with plastic eggs – I could be really Frugal and save…
DIY Math Fact Family Triangles
My daughter came home from school excited about something she had learned in maths recently that division and multiplication are…
Post-it Note Partitioning – Addition and Subtraction
In Maths you child will progress from learning to count on and back to quickly forming number sentences with single…
Apple Place Value Booklet
One of the key concepts that children need to understand to progress in maths is the value assigned to numbers…
Valentines Oobleck Recipe for some Sensory Spelling Practice
Each week I dread opening my daughter’s homework folder as in there will be her spelling list. She’s in year…
Rainbow Number Bonds
Maths seems to be getting the better of my eldest at the moment, he’s got so many different methods and…
Body Clock – Hands-on Time Practice
There are some things that I thought my eldest had grasped successful and in fact school had told us that…
Needle Felted Hearts – Beginner Needle Felting Project for Kids
Over a year ago I brought a set of supplies for needle felting with the idea of trying the craft…
Chocolate Cursive Handwriting Practice
For me as a parent it seems like we’ve just learnt to write and suddenly appearing in the kids school…
Lego Snowflake Symmetry
With the ice and snow around our theme for this week’s Early Elementary learning activities is ideal – it’s just…
Using LEGO to divide Syllables
I don’t know about your kids but mine love LEGO – from the duplo that they collected as toddlers and…
Acorn Arrays – for Building Number Facts
Recently my eldest has come home with some maths homework and one of the problems on the sets has been…
Skip counting spider webs
When I was at school many moons ago I remember learning to count in 2’s, 3’s 5’s and 10’s –…
Pumpkin Seed Place Value – Subtraction Math Facts
To support and extend the learning that my eldest does in school we’re doing lots of different after-school activities with…
Currency Collections
As a child, I remember whenever we would return from vacation I would spend hours looking at the coins that…
Art and Science, Poem to Remember the Order of the Planets
Apart from animals my eldest’s second favourite topic is space, but he’s not really interested in aliens and sci-fi he…
Place Value Leaves: Read and Write
As a child I remember learning my hundreds, tens and units and then moving onto decimal places, thousands, millions etc……
Digital Journalling with Kids
There is no doubt that we live in a digital age where digital communication is the way things seem to…
Superhero Pattern Stones
One of the favourite topics that J’s school focused on last year was superhero’s and we’re so happy that our…
Me Llamo Game – starting on Spanish
Yesterday I introduced the new year of early childhood education posts kicking off with a preparing for school, today and…
Grasshopper Addition and Subtraction Number Lines
As we head into year 2 (2nd grade) the maths that J is doing at school is starting to get…
Ladybug Doubling and Symmetry
Simple activities that both my kids can do without drastic changes to the equipment or the plan are fantastic and…