I can do it!

My favourite phrase - it's so empowering!

A colour, cut, and stick-it-back-together again kind of activity that helps children review vocabulary, read (rather than guess!) and develop logical/predictive skills.

Basically this is a variation on dominoes, here making a circle. You can do this with any lexical set (or grammar structures too), but you need to make sure the last card will join back up to the first, or it won't work (and that you don't have duplicates).

What did we do? Coloured in big dots according to the words written under them. Big flashcards with the colours and words were on the board. Don't know?  - Go check! Then cut out your cards carefully (so that your pairs are separated). Give them a good shuffle, and then put it back together again! Use the flashcards again
to double check. If you want to keep sets separate, use different coloured base paper and avoid pink (girls will all want this one!).

Most enjoyable was the children showing mummies their puzzles, and mummies not being able to figure it out. Made the children feel very clever indeed - and they are, of course!

Puzzles and trains

We just can't help ourselves at the moment, having so much fun with numbers and colours - and animals and fruit and so much more. We are starting to 'organise' things into sets, and remember where things are. Puzzles and matching activities are a lot of fun, discovering connections as we go.

We were also very busy this morning figuring out how to put the train set together. It was a bigger job than we expected, and it took all hands to work it out! It is no ordinary set either - there are whistles and crossing noises, and even flashing lights on the bridge.

Bad news is that our favourite video got eaten by the machine. It will be a while before we can replace it, but the girls already know and can sing the 'Green, green grass' song. No one likes trolls very much, so we don't sing that song! A new one we learned this week instead was the Grand Old Duke of York, along with marching up and down!