Maths and snacks aren’t two words you normally put in one sentence. However, it’s possible to do maths at snack time in a fun way so that children won’t even know they’re doing a maths activity.
The best part is that you can eat your maths activity! Continue reading
Today we created our own “Menus for Hens”. This menu writing experience is an extension activity for the story, “Farmer Blake and Sneaky Snake.” In the story, Farmer Blake feeds his hens a different type of food each day. We think Farmer Blake needs some help to work out what his hens should eat as everyone knows that hens don’t eat ice-cream. Well, at least we don’t think hens do. Continue reading
We’ve been reading Farmer Blake and Sneaky Snake. This is a humorous story about a snake who creeps into the hen house each night and eats the hens’ eggs. Of course, the hens are not pleased about this at all … nor is Farmer Blake! Today, Sneaky Snake came to our house and it was very apparent that he’d been eaten heaps of eggs.
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Here’s a numeracy activity based on the book “Harry the Poisonous Centipede”. Continue reading
… Out of Recycled Materials This learning activity has been based on the story Boris the Spider. The story Boris the Spider fits in perfectly with the new focus of minibeasts (all small creeping, crawling animals) which we are currently working on. Minibeasts is a topic that has been eagerly embraced by the boys … especially our youngest who can’t go for a walk anywhere without stopping numerous times to check out any creeping thing … Continue reading