Easter Learning with Plastic Easter Eggs
If you have some plastic Easter eggs laying around then they are perfect for including in some fun hands-on learning…
Learning to Read
Bear Stays Up Late for Christmas 3 Part Montessori Cards
My kids and I love the Bear and Friends books by Karma Wilson. The stories are gentle and applicable to kids,…
Story Sequencing – The Nativity
One of my favourite ways to help children review and understand stories is my retelling them in their own words,…
Star Wars A New Hope ~ Connecting Generations and Inspiring Reading
Want to know something about me! Well even if you don’t I’m going to tell you my husband and I…
Reading and connecting with books to stop the summer slide
There is a well-known process that happens with kids during the summer break from school or preschool. It’s called the…
Frog Hop Phonics – Beginning Blending
Making the transition from recognising individual letters and the sounds that they make to blending them to form the first…
Spin A Word – Real vs Nonsense Words
One way to see how well a child can use their phonics skills is by decoding real and nonsense words….
A Series of Unfortunate Events Read Along With Netflix
As an adult, I always try and read a book before heading to see a movie as from experience I…
High-Frequency Words Dino Babies Game
My eldest just clicked at reading. It was like one day he couldn’t do it and the next he was…
The Enormous Carrot Storytelling with Props
Summertime is one of my favorite times of the year. The fresh air, the beautiful flowers and of course all the…
Word Family Houses
It’s such an exciting time when your child learns to recognise letters and understands that blending them together can make…
A Messy Adventure – Interactive Roald Dahl Fun
If you know me in real life you will know that I really don’t like getting messy in my house,…
The Very Hungry Caterpillar – learning days of the week
As a child I remember my pop-up The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle being the most frequently requested book…
Rocket Landings Word Families Game
Throughout schooling and life there is a point where something just clicks and we’ve reached that point in preschool with…
Matching Pairs – Inspired by The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown
This months Virtual Book Club for Kids featured author is Margaret Wise Brown author of books like Goodnight Moon, The Important…
Rainbow Fish Sight Word Scales
Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister is a favourite book of ours and as the feature author this month in the…
Sight Word Skittles
Our weekly sight words from school are getting harder and it’s time to start putting together some fun activities to…
Simple Learning to Read Aid
From learning letter sounds to blending them into words and reading is an exciting phase and one that we’re loving…