100 Stories Book Review:
“The Umbrella” – wordless and wonderfully imaginative.
We’ve had some wild weather in Sydney lately, lots of wind and storms causing havoc.
Just the time to share our most favourite wordless picture book published this year- all about a little dog blown away by the wind.The Umbrella by Ingrid & Dieter Schubert, Book […]
In our last post we reviewed Dinosaur Rocket, Penny Dales’s latest book in her fast, fun and furious Dinosaur series.
Kids are fascinated by dinosaurs size,unusual names and appearance.
There are many ways of extending the story reading and providing exciting early literacy learning opportunities, both at home,in early education centres and out and about.
Rhymes.
There are […]
January 27th is Chocolate Cake Day.
Yum!
I found some old pics of my (now grown up) children “licking the bowl”.
The expressions on their faces say it all don’t they?
It looks to me as if they have pulled the chair up to the bench to find out what was left in the bowl….
Today is a very […]
Activities
The Little Big Book Club has a Hairy Maclary Learning time PDF sheet.It has suggestions on how to read the story, especially questions to ask before,during and after reading the story.
The Little Big Book Club Activity time PDF sheet has suggestions on going for a walk after reading the story. (like Hairy Maclary but […]
You can find fabulous places to grow kids imagination when you get out and about.
Sculptures by the Sea,now on at Bondi, Sydney, has some massive imagination prompters.
How about clambering into an enormous frying pan?
At Tamarama Beach, Sydney they can climb in now!
Further along the walk is a tractor that looks like it could fly…
….and […]
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