Tag Archives: sight words

Lets go on a colour hunt in English, Afrikaans and Spanish

Posted on March 2, 2015 by ofamily

We started off last week doing a colour hunt when we were out for a walk at one of the National Trust sites.  We had our colour hunt pages on some clip boards and my daughter tore off running around … Continue reading →

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Paper chain learning

Posted on February 27, 2015 by ofamily

Our paper chain craze started a couple of weeks ago and we have ended up making so many different versions that I thought it was time to put it all down in a post. Our first paper chain activity was … Continue reading →

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The Owl’s lesson and Owl Babies

Posted on October 24, 2014 by ofamily

Pink is still reading the Owl Babies story over and over.  So when a recent trip to our local Oxfam store resulted in us finding a copy of this sweet Percy the Park Keeper story called The Owls Lesson and … Continue reading →

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Construction play area

Posted on October 21, 2014 by ofamily

We have a new sensory play area and the kids are loving it. The blue mat is actually their large art messy mat, my attempt at trying to contain some of the excess sand.  I cut open some old Amazon … Continue reading →

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Encouraging my little book worm with Autumn words

Posted on October 11, 2014 by ofamily

My little girl has always loved books, she has always loved story time and would often just sit and page through her books and make up her own story to go with them.  But the last few weeks her reading … Continue reading →

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