Block building is important work around here at the moment. While he is busy creating ‘The Wizardly World of Wizaldo the Wizard’ he is also learning maths skills such as number, shape, weight, volume, grouping and sorting. He’s experimenting with concepts like balance and gravity. He’s learning and using new language. He’s practising spatial awareness […]
Ten Things for Kids to do While Waiting.
Since The Father Figure became unwell we’ve had many trips to hospitals and doctors and there has been a lot of waiting around for the kids. And it’s not just that waiting around is boring, but at hospitals and similar places the kids are expected to be reasonably quiet and not run up and down […]
Ice Painting
It was hot here last week, and as I was filling the ice block trays for the eleventy hundredth time a little idea popped into my head. I got out the food colouring and dropped some colour into each ice block, then popped them in the freezer. The next day we donned aprons, found paper […]
We Play Puzzles and Games and Everything!
I had grand plans for what the Middle Boy and I would play today. Grand plans for getting out the puppet theatre and puppets and putting on a show… But sometimes grand plans get scuttled by a morning full of tantrums and tears and just needing five minutes peace to regroup… and before you know […]
We Play Dolls.
Not surprisingly there has been a lot of interest in babies in our house of late. So we hunted out the dolls and the big basket of dolls clothes, found a few spare baby blankets and set up the Big Boy’s new castle cubby with comfy places for babies to sleep…. Muski was given this […]
We Play – More Sorting.
Sorting is big in our house at the moment. The sorting tray from a few weeks back is still getting lots of use but the almost three year old is forever leaving me little lines of sorted goodness all around our house… Cars, duplo, animals, wooden blocks, gum nuts, threading reels… all are good to […]
We Play.. and Sing Car Songs!
Joining in with Childhood101’s We Play series today. ‘Car World’ was recently constructed in my living room…. At first it was just a line up of cars, then it became some roads, then a bridge which, with the return of the Big Girls from school, turned into a ramp that flew cars off the table […]
Kids and Learning – Let Go and Create!
Welcome to the May Teach/Learn Blogging Carnival, ‘Kids and Learning.’ The Teach/Learn Blogging Carnival hosted by Science@home is for anyone, because we are all teachers and learners. This month our bloggers have come up with some wonderful suggestions for fun things to do with your kids, ways to help them learn and thoughts on what […]
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