This weekend, in Australia, we celebrate Mother’s (and Grandmothers) day.
Why not share our own mother’s stories, as well as books from our booklist?
How many of us talk to our children- and tell them stories about our mothers,(or ourselves) when we were younger?
Or ask our mothers to share their stories on SKYPE or facetime?
We can […]
100 Stories Before School
Literacy Calendar .
World Read Aloud Day – Australian stories.
World Read Aloud Day is today, March 4th.
We thought we would like to share some stories from our 100 Stories Before School list, especially some Australian stories.We have taken the World Read Aloud categories of Belonging, Curiosity,Hope, Friendship,Kindness,Courage and Confidence and found a […]
Dragons rush out at Chinese New Year in parades, stories and songs.
Kids love Chinese dragons – they are colourful,exciting, noisy and enormous!
It’s a chance to pretend to be something extraordinary, and can later lead onto reading about Dragons in older stories like” The Dragon of an Ordinary Family” by Margaret Mahy and Helen Oxenbury.
Stories […]
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 […]
Rhymes are a fun way to help children develop skills of listening to sounds and patterns in words.
Here are a set of 3, good for younger children.
Use them at Halloween, or anytime, but especially when sharing stories about witches.
Each rhyme can be printed out on one page. I always laminated my rhymes so they […]
An all-time favourite,the witch from Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler (Macmillan Children’s Books) is just right for Halloween stories before school.
The characters were even chosen for one of London’s famous book benches.(Visited by the 100 Stories Before School kangaroo earlier this year)
The book has bright and cheerful illustrations. There […]
Looking to have some fun at Halloween?
Not toooooo scary though for our littlies?
I’ve found some stories, rhymes and activities to stretch some of that imaginative thinking.
Who could imagine lovable skeletons that are not scary…
Try these ones-
This clip is from the book Funnybones by Janet and Allan Ahlberg. (Picture Puffin, Penguin Australia).
My copy is held […]
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