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Send In The Clowns

May 24th 2009 02:59
Admittedly I am not a fan of clowns, preferring to see them at children's parties rather than adorned all over my wall. So the inclusion of Clown Week into our schedule took me a little by surprise to say the least.

Loonette and Molly from the Canadian Series, The Big Comfy Couch, are a particular favourite in our house so at least I had a starting point on which to base our activities. And in particular I love the concept of a 10-second tidy which we are going to incorporate with a clown based cleaning chart.


Craft wise - cardboard megaphones, bow ties and clown hats will be a feature and face painting and juggling will no doubt be a daily occurrence this week.

Focussing on expressions and feelings this week, this blank faced clown drawing is a great place to start as well as the easy paint activity of just drawing simple faces onto paper plates.


First School again came to our aid with numerous clown pictures, simple clown crafts and a number of easy clown related jigsaw puzzles. And we found a number of sites which provided us with counting, addition and pattern activities to build on our number skills.

The Dr Seuss story, If I Ran The Circus, will be introduced this week and the online children's library comes to our aid with The CIrcus Procession and The First Circus. For the younger readers, Cbeebies features an easy story for children entitled Where's My Hat? and a song entitled The Funniest Clown.



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BBC Stories

May 14th 2009 00:50
CBeebies, the children's BBC website, has a great range of stories to watch and read along with and will easily inspire your children.

Currently my daughter's favourite, she enjoys listening to the stories and selecting her own depending on her mood. The stories are excerpts from the children's programs featured on the BBC channel such as The Tweenies, The Story Makers and Charlie and Lola.

It features some well known classics from Little Red Riding Hood, The Princess and The Pea and Dick Whittington to more modern stories like The Three Bears And The New Baby.

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The Three Little Pigs

May 12th 2009 04:39
From one classic fairytale to another, this week's activities surround the ever popular children's tale, The Three Little Pigs.

Being such a popular story, it seems that there is no shortage for inspiration on the web covering all kinds of activities, colouring pages and ideas to complement the story.

This week we are going to attempt our first ever home made papier-mache piggy bank and from the look of it, it is going to be a very messy but fun experience.

DLTK Kids also provided us with some great ideas including a fun paper plate pig, an easy toilet paper pig and wolf and a paper craft pig.

During last week's activities my daughter had a lot of fun with the shadow puppet theatre we made and this week we are going to reenact the Three Little Pig story using these handy templates.

My personal favourite however is this cute activity where the children get to create their own version of the pig's houses using spaghetti, toothpicks and paper bricks.

Tra la la la la la!
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Jack And The Beanstalk

May 3rd 2009 10:22
My daughter was very excited that today marked the first day of Giant Week aka Jack And The Beanstalk Week. Having changed her mind at the last minute from her original choice of The Ugly Duckling, she had me do some last minute website searching in order to come up with some creative ideas.

Thankfully the BBC had an online adapted story about Jack and The Beanstalk which she enjoyed watching which led us into a discussion about Real or Make Believe. Tina's fun little online game came to our aid just to refamiliarise her with our discussion.

Breastfeeding.com had some fun Jack and The Beanstalk Mazes and colouring in pages which will come in handy as the week progresses.

As a craft we are going to attempt to grow a shoot or two from our pumpkin seeds as well as make this paper beanstalk.

Sparklebox provided us with templates for some masks and the sequencing sheet will help as a great discussion point once we have reread the story a number of times.

Squidoo gave us much inspiration to attempt our very own shadow puppet theatre and we discovered some puppet templates online which we could use to bring this to life.

Scholastic UK had a number of resources which we could put to the test including a fun online game for us to play.

Another busy week in our household - what are you doing?
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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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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


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Five In A Row

April 1st 2009 01:49
Five In A Row is a unique program which is ideal for home schooling or extra learning and combines children's literature with creative lesson plans involving social studies, language, art, applied maths and science.

The main program is designed for young children from 4-8 although the Before Five In A Row, Beyond Five In A Row and Above and Beyond Five In A Row caters from 2 up until the ages of 12 onwards


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Read Along Books

March 25th 2009 06:16
Read Along CD books are fast becoming the favourite in our household. It is a great way to create reading independence for your child and it helps to give them the courage to sit down and read books by themselves.

Many classics and new tales are being republished as cd stories and they are great to take travelling when it involves a lengthy car or plane trip.
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