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Today’s Blog has been written by Alina. Sing songs such as 5 little monkeys, 5 little speckled frogs, 5 little men in a flying saucer etc. Songs will help children develop speech and language and if you choose songs with numbers in them this will also help children become aware of numbers and later on learn to count. Here are some links with a few songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j6AZhZFb7A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSC-gHBU_d0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E3p_51tJx0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZw9veQ76fo Maths is more than just numbers, is time, size, volume, position etc. To help with this, talk about what day it is every day, look at the calendar, ask them, what do they think the weather is doing. You can draw numbers on the pavement and ask your child to sit on a number such as 5, 2 6 etc, this will help children learn to recognise numbers. Play with blocks and Lego and ask the children to stack them ve...

Hello! This week we have continued making up our activity bags, we have loved seeing all of the photos and videos.  We try to put out a bag as often as we can, we will email you when a new one is available. Here are some more ideas that you might like to try at home. Playing cards. A simple household find that can be used in so many ways to promote number. Bingo, snap, order 1-5 or 1-10, find two the same, turn over two cards which is more, which is less? Which card comes next in a sequence? So many possibilities! Lids, lids and more lids!  We love lids at Pre-School Collect some flowers and greenery, place in a small shallow bowl, half fill with water and place in some string with a knotted end into the water. Once ready stick in the freezer, as soon as it’s frozen fill to the brim with water, this will make sure the flowers are completely iced over. Remove from the freezer once frozen, pop off the bowl and hang from the string in some trees!...