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The Golden Egg Book

April 24th 2009 09:21
Whilst we may be a little late for Easter, next week's topic is "bunny week" as my daughter now constantly refers. We are basing our activities on or around The Golden Egg Book originally published in 1947, written by Margaret Wise Brown.

The story tells of a little bunny who stumbles upon an egg. The bunny becomes curious as he can hear something moving inside the egg. His imagination runs wild and the impatient bunny tries to shake, push, and even jump on the egg in his attempts to break it. But all his efforts go in vain as the stubborn egg refuses to budge. The mystery unravels when the egg begins to hatch and much to the bunny's surprise, a little duck comes out. The bunny and the duck then become friends.


Our main project for the week involves making a woollen egg using just three ingredients - wool, glue and a balloon. The idea was lovingly borrowed from Storytime and More who in turn was inspired by More Mom Time.

We are going to make a bunny mask and practice our little r and big R writing.

These thumb bunny pictures are just adorable and with the help of some bunny worksheets, we are going to practice our math skills.


We have some lovely bunny and egg photos to colour as well as some pretty collages to create.

And really the week wouldn't be complete without the incorporation of real hard boiled eggs to decorate and colour - not to mention eat!
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Behaviour Chart

April 21st 2009 13:06
We are using a behaviour chart this week as an inclusion in Barbie Week. It is more of a helpful chart than anything else as we had a discussion about Barbie and the good things that she does for other people and are trying to follow in her footsteps. Everytime my daughter does something helpful we put a star on the respective day - there is room for six so she has plenty of opportunities to help out if she wishes.

Not only does she acknowledge that she is doing something good to assist either mum or dad but she is also learning the days of the week as we go.

Free Behavior Charts has a great range of charts to utilise to suit your needs. From chore charts, colour charts, fitness charts and dot to dot charts, the site will certainly give you food for thought or inspiration if needed.
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Free Online Children's Books

April 13th 2009 02:26
As an expat abroad, I am always searching for new stories to share with my daughter.

The Children's Library is a non-profit organisation offering a wide variety of free paper books to be read online including stories such as Axle The Freeway Cat, Blinky Bill, Cinderella and Mother Goose.

The International Children's Digital Library Foundation's goal is to build a collection of books that represents outstanding historical and contemporary books from throughout the world.

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Little Mermaid Week

April 9th 2009 02:07
We are taking a theme from one of my daughter's books and are basing activities and stories throughout the week on the theme of her choice. Her choice this week - The Little Mermaid - apt for someone who currently wants to be a mermaid when she grows up!

Doing a quick search on the internet so far we have uncovered sheet music and lyrics for a number of the tracks including Part of Your World and Under The Sea.

We have some pretty stationery and bookmarks to create and use. We also have some great pictures to colour and paint as well as some great underwater dot to dot activities.

We also have a Little Mermaid Door Hanger to print and a photo frame to create!

We are going to do some bubble blowing and make a paper plate fish and tube octopus to stick on our mermaid wall.

If left to my own devices, our week wouldn't be as half as fun!

Feel free to submit any other suggestions or sites as no doubt this will be a recurring theme!
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Play Money

March 17th 2009 00:56
Using play money for maths can make it easier for little brains to understand. If you are unable to buy sets of play money then consider creating your own.

Or failing that, Donna Young has play money already created for maths purposes. You just need to print it out and voila - you are ready to go.

The page gives you denominations of ones, tens, hundreds, thousands up to millions. 24 bills are featured on each page and her recommendation is to print the differing denominations out on different coloured paper to make it easier to sort the bills.

Oh what would I do for a one million dollar note!
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