Snow. Volcano. Snow volcano? This reading opportunity is about to get exciting. Not all reading needs to be from a book. This is a super exciting, seasonal activity to bring some added excitement and fizz to your reading. YOU WILL NEED FOR THIS VOLCANIC WINTER WONDERLAND: Snow! A container (cup, bowl, jug, bottle – whatever you have handy) Vinegar 1/4…
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Reading and Writing for Valentine’s Day
Need to encourage reading and writing? Do you want to find new, relevant ways to encourage reading with your little learner? To encourage writing? To encourage them to draw more? Then this ‘feel good’ Valentine’s activity is perfect for you to try. There’s even a FREE PRINTABLE! What’s not to love? Our home hub has never really ‘celebrated’ Valentine’s Day,…
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Reading away from ‘reading time’
Do you find yourself having a battle to encourage your little learner to read their school book? Or do you have an avid little reader, but looking for something a little different? In our home hub, I love to find all sorts of reading opportunities to encourage reading as part of everyday life… because, well, it is! Recipe reading is…
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Sentence Building Rubbish Bins
Sentence building is an important sequence of skills that need a little encouragement. Have you a superstar reader who struggles to hold a sentence in their head for writing? Does your little learner find it tricky to distinguish between determiners, nouns, verbs or other word types? Is your reader overwhelmed by long sentences? Well this is an easy, effective activity…
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Multiplication: It’s everywhere!
Want to build a tower that’s 10 rows tall? Each row has 9 blocks. How many blocks will I need?That’s multiplication. Want to know if you add afford 3 of those 34p chocolate bars with your £1?That’s multiplication. You know your journey is 180mins long, but how many hours is that?That’s division… or multiplication in reverse. There’s also: repeated fractions,…
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