Dragon & Castle Play
The dragon in our Chinese New Year celebrations last week sparked some new play activities for us this week. Here are some of the things we enjoyed… . Tracing Line Designs …with loose metal parts… ....
View ArticleMr Wolf’s Pancakes
It was ‘Pancake Day’ this week and we couldn’t let this pass by without making pancakes. I thought it would be lovely to share the book, ‘Mr Wolf’s Pancakes’ too, so we’ve had activities related to...
View ArticleBears All Around
The children particularly enjoyed the ‘Mr Wolf and the Three Bears’ book we had out when reading ‘Mr Wolf’s Pancakes‘ and this lead to lots of ‘bear’ play. I set up lots of opportunities linked with...
View ArticleColour Explosion
There’s been an explosion of colour in our classroom recently, brought about by particular interest in a few of my books. I took the opportunity to provide lots of colour, number and shape activities...
View ArticleSummer Play
Lots of summer, flower and garden related activities this week after a bit of interest in the flowers I rescued from an overgrown area at school… Here are some of the things we’ve enjoyed… . Citrus...
View ArticleAnimal Play
There has been so much animal play occurring naturally recently that I thought I would set up some invitations to support this. Here are a few of the things we’ve enjoyed – sorry there’s not as many...
View ArticlePlans for the Holidays
Not sure if anyone will read this, seeing as so many of you are now on your summer holidays, but we still have another week to go so I thought I’d share a post anyway. There has been lots of talk of...
View ArticleGetting to Know Me
I wasn’t going to post our ‘getting to know each other’ activities as I’ve repeated so many of the things I’ve posted before, but I feel like I haven’t blogged for ages so I’ve decided to anyway. Sorry...
View ArticleAutumnal Play and Learning
I love the beauty of autumnal days, when the leaves are changing colour and falling. The grey days are coming in fast so we’ve been making the most of the gorgeous-ness while we can! Here are some of...
View ArticleSpooky Stories
It’s Halloween next week, so we have lots of spooky stories out in the classroom. We actually started enjoying them just before half term (& they will stay out next week for the first week back...
View ArticlePoppy Play
I shared some poppy play pictures over on my Instagram account this time last year, but apart from a collage of the pictures, didn’t share them on my blog. As it is Remembrance Sunday in the UK...
View ArticleLast Christmas
Last Christmas, I shared a post with all my previous seasonal activities, but didn’t blog what we were enjoying at the time as there were lots of repeats or variations (instead, I shared pics over on...
View ArticleHappy New Year!
Can you believe that another year is coming to an end?! I’ve had a few messages asking if we do any specific planned activities to celebrate the new year and we don’t really, apart from talking about...
View ArticleBest Nine of 2017 – Instagram
Hello! As you may already know, I absolutely love Instagram. There is a huge amount of inspiration for the classroom and I spend far too much of my time on there! At the end of the year many people...
View ArticleWinter Play
We’ve enjoyed lots of winter play recently and are actually still in the middle of it all. I’m sharing some of the things we’ve enjoyed so far… . Small World Play Arctic land… there is a video of this...
View ArticleWinter Play Continues…
Frosty mornings have meant a continued interest in our wintery activities. It’s been a very busy couple of weeks… . Counting Snowmen The snowman below is a FREE printable, available to download from...
View ArticleHearts Galore!
We’ve had both hearts (for Valentines Day) and Chinese New Year inspired activities in our classroom this week! With both celebrations on the calendar next week, we’ve been enjoying a mixture of...
View ArticleColourful Play
We’ve been enjoying lots of colourful play and learning recently. Run off my feet at the moment, but sharing a few of them here. Many of them are variations of things we’ve done before, so apologies...
View ArticleDinosaurs!
Dinosaurs have been a big feature of natural play in my classroom for a while now, so I set up various actives related to them. Very similar to many I have set up before 🙂 . Dinosaur Inspired Number...
View ArticleEggs!
Eggs everywhere! Sharing some of our egg-related activities from this year. Some from before the Easter break and some that have continued into this week… . Egg Related Books These are the books we...
View ArticleSpring Play
Spring arrived! It seemed like winter for a long time! Our previous egg play naturally lead to some spring-related activities. Here are a few of them… . Farm Small World Play The free carpet samples I...
View ArticleKings, Queens and Castles
Lots of castle play recently, inspired by the UK Royal Wedding – kings, queens, princes, princesses and castles… . Castle Inspired Maths . Castle Small World Play Kings, queens, princesses, knights and...
View ArticleOcean and Beach Play
Lots of ocean, beach and holiday inspired play recently. We’re still in the middle of it, actually, but thought I’d share some of what we’ve enjoyed so far… . Beach Finds in the LED Box The starfish...
View ArticleAnimals All Around
Animals have always been popular with this class and we’ve had lots of them out over the last couple of weeks. Here is some of the play we’ve enjoyed… . Panda Play This was very popular! Tray, part of...
View ArticleChristmas Last Year
I didn’t have time to share what we got up to at Christmas last year (although you may have seen some pics on my Instagram page), so thought I’d share some of the activities we enjoyed now. By the...
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