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Sight Word Scavenger Hunt

February 10, 2015 By jbmumofone 17 Comments

Sight Word Scavenger Hunt

We are at the very exciting stage with The Boy of beginning to learn to read.  His letter recognition is now pretty good so we are just starting to practice some simple words. To help him with this today we decided to make our normal walk into town a bit of a game inspired by this treasure hunt over at Me and My Shadow. I printed out some simple words, things we could easily spot, and then laminated the sheet so that it will wipe clean.  I then punched two holes in the bottom and threaded some ribbon so that it can hang easily around his neck.   Then, armed with ...

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Filed Under: Education, Photography Tagged With: Education, Play based learning, Reading

Routes To Reading: Little Readers’ Day Out, Bristol

June 18, 2014 By jbmumofone 9 Comments

Routes To Reading: Little Readers’ Day Out, Bristol

Now for something very close to my heart, reading with the children.  My favourite time of the day with the kids is reading them their bedtime story.  Little Miss is currently enjoying 'The Hungry Caterpillar' and The boy is OBSESSED with all things 'Mr Men.' For me books have always been a huge part of my life.  To be able to escape into another world for a few hours can be so thrilling, so relaxing, so terrifying and so delightful and something that I want both of my children to be able to enjoy for themselves. Mr B and I have read to both children, nightly, from a very young age and ...

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: Childrens Literacy, parenting, Reading

Encouraging Childhood Literacy With The Scottish Friendly Children’s Book Tour

May 15, 2014 By jbmumofone 8 Comments

Encouraging Childhood Literacy With The Scottish Friendly Children’s Book Tour

I have always loved to read and have wonderful memories of learning to read with my Mum and my sister as a child.  One of my happiest, earliest memories is crawling around the floor with my Mum putting together very simple words, each written on a piece of card, stretching in a long line right across the lounge and trying to form a sentence.  It was a game that I really loved. Play-based learning has been a particular passion of mine since having my own children and you can find some examples of the things we get up to here.  Bedtime stories are my favourite time of the day.  The Boy has ...

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Filed Under: Education, Sponsored Post Tagged With: Childrens Literacy, Play based learning, Reading, Scottish Book Trust, Scottish Friendly Children's Book Tour

Fiction Friday #2: Where The Wild Things Are

November 18, 2011 By jbmumofone 2 Comments

Fiction Friday #2: Where The Wild Things Are

Fiction Friday is the fabulous new brainchild of the dashing @homedad.  I was a bit slow on the uptake last week and missed FF#1, but have managed to get my act together and join in this week, WHOOP.  So, here is my entry. The night Max wore his wolf suit and made mischief of one kind, and another, his mother called him "WILD THING!" and Max said "I"LL EAT YOU UP!" so he was sent to bed without eating anything. To check out all of this weeks entries head on over to @homedad via the magic button.  He has gone all Italian Mobster on us this week...WITWOO! ...

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: Babies, Childrens Books, Fiction Fridays, Maurice Sendak, parenting, Reading, Where the Wild Things Are

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