Category Archives: Letters and sounds

Letter Of The Week Basket

Posted by Ailsa on 19 June, 2013 4 comments
Letter Basket - T

Last week, I wrote about Annabelle’s personalised alphabet book that we created to help support her interest in letters and sounds. We have also been using ‘letter of the week’ baskets to help Annabelle tune into the letter sounds. These have …

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Personalised Alphabet Book

Posted by Ailsa on 11 May, 2013 2 comments
Annabelle's Alphabet A-B

Here is one of those projects that I have been looking forward to getting on with for ages! Annabelle loves books, and is more and more interested in emergent reading (following the text with her finger and reading aloud what …

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Beads for busy fingers

Posted by Ailsa on 18 December, 2012 1 comments

We have been warming up for present and card opening by working on fine motor skills with some threading activities! We tried threading beads onto sticks a little while ago, and this is an activity we repeat quite often now. …

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Before Christmas

Posted by Ailsa on 15 December, 2012 1 comments

Here are a few of our busy little moments from before the Christmas fun and madness began! Movember Annabelle has been supporting Movember! No, she’s not drinking espresso – can you imagine a two year old on caffeine??! Just frothy …

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Making recources accessible

Posted by Ailsa on 7 September, 2012 None comments
writing kit

For years at school we have been making writing kits, ‘writing to go boxes’, writing stations, and all manner of little packs or spaces to make writing accessible and interesting all around the environment – not just at the ‘writing …

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