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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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Posted By: Michelle Sweeney - Category: Age 3-4, Age 4-6, Age 6-8, Books, Computer Based, Craft, DVDs, Maths, Reading

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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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Posted By: Michelle Sweeney - Category: Age 3-4, Age 4-6, Age 6-8, Computer Based, Maths

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The Introduction Of Maths

February 1st 2009 13:45

Admittedly I enjoy reading. I also love reading to my daughter and fostering the enjoyment we have with the books we read but I was a little hesitant about which way to approach the subject of Math.

She is currently enjoying playing games on the computer so I thought I would try the PC approach and purchased the Reader Rabbit Math Adventure for 4-6 year olds. We have a number of semi-educational and non-educational games and I thought she would dismiss it quickly in order to play her current favourite - Barbie Fashion Show - but I was pleasantly surprised.

I let her click her way through the game and levels and when she was not sure what to do she requested help. We also sat down together and counted coins so that she could start to understand the math theory behind the games. We had discussed the basics of plus and minus but her current understanding of math does not venture far beyond 1 plus 1 and 1 minus 1.

I really liked the software because it was easy enough that she, at 3, could sit down and play it herself without having to ask for assistance which is always a bonus.