Starting school

As you may know my little boy starts school this year and we’ve been learning letters alphabetically (see our learning journey so far here). It seems different schools integrate children differently. The school our son has got into, introduce the children for an hour  a week (now) over several weeks (4 in this case). Today … Read more

What do you get with a G?

I have been teaching my 4 year old the alphabet before he starts school in September (Yay we got our first choice school. I hope you did too) I actually started with my youngest. We simply used some black tissue paper (tbh it’s the only black paper I had but I thought it would be just perfect as … Read more

Daffodils and Bonnets

With it being Spring we decided to combine learning the letter D with Daffodils First simply cut out a letter D and colour it orange I never had any yellow paper so we painted a white sheet – I also think this adds to the fun, gives it more texture, and obviously the added skill … Read more

B for Bee

B is for Bees First we started with the old toilet roll from an idea here Whilst we had the paints out I thought why not have a “bee” picture – by painting yellow and black. My son then thought why not paint himself as a Bee!!! He had great fun and it easily came … Read more