Tag Archives: writing

Christmas present writing practice

My youngest is still working on his letter formation but he hates doing lines of letter practice and he is desperate to spell words. We have come up with an activity for him where he uses his letter formation pages … Continue reading

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Write your own Percy the Park Keeper Story

I have been trying to encourage my daughter to write short stories.  She is not a natural story-teller like her younger brother but we are slowly getting there.  One of the things that seem to work with her is if … Continue reading

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Making a Brown Bear Brown Bear mini-book

Both my kids loved the Eric Carle book “Brown Bear Brown Bear what do you see ” when they where a bit younger.  So when I saw these lovely stick puppets (Free to download from Twinkl) I knew they would … Continue reading

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Australian animal writing practice

Both my kids love any learning activity which involves animals.  So when I try to come up with writing activities for Pink I often end up doing something with animals. We started off with the Australian animal word mat (FREE … Continue reading

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Home made scratch art

Over the weekend Pink asked to do some scratch art (she meant the ones that you can buy in the shop), we did not have any so we decided to make our own. We started off by creating blocks of … Continue reading

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