I am taking a little time offline this week to spend with family and to try and kick the final symptoms of my recent illness. Fortunately, I have some great blogging friends who have offered to help me out with a series of fabulous guest posts. Today Jamie of Hands On: As We Grow faces […]
Literacy Spot #31: 10 Pre-Writing Activities for Under 5s
When you actually think about the amount of control required to hold a pencil and direct it in the manner required to form letters, it is easy to see why activities that strengthen and train the muscles in the hand and fingers are so important for young children. While many of the activities below may […]
Literacy Spot #27: Letter From a Character
The reason I love the Letter From a Character literacy idea is that it truly engages young children with purposeful reading and writing in a fun way. Choose the right character for your child or group of children and they will be excited, actively engaged and motivated to ‘read’ and ‘write.’ So what is this […]
Literacy Spot #21: Playing with Letters
This past week Immy’s interest in the alphabet has exploded. She is pointing to letters all over the place, naming the ones she knows and asking about those she doesn’t. For the first time she made reference to the fact that a capital and lower case version of the same letter were a ‘big A’ […]
Literacy Spot #9: 8 Ways to Play with Junk Mail and Catalogues
The saying goes, “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure,” and this can definitely be the case when it comes to a letterbox filled with annoying junk mail! But what can be seen as an awful waste of paper can actually be re-purposed into some wonderful literacy learning through play for young children – after […]
Learning Letters Playfully
I smiled when I saw this Twitter tweet last week, in response to my post, 10 Ways to Motivate Your Child to Love Reading – “And not one of them involves learning letters.” I had wondered if anyone would notice that my post about loving reading indeed did not talk about learning letters. That is […]
