My 4 year old loves to play with the same board games she sees her mommy and daddy play with friends. So I decided to adapt some of those board games for her. One of them is UpWords and since one of her favourite things to do is rhyme we decided to that UpWords was [...]
Before a child learns to read they usually need to know the letter sounds first.
Using pictures from magazines, colouring books, flier , drawn yourself or printed off the internet have your child circle pictures that begin with a certain sound. Start with easy to identify sounds such as m, s, d and b.
You can also make cards with the [...]
Some children are kinetic learners, they learn best while moving. Here is a fun rhyming game especially for those children.
If you don’t have an indoor area big enough for all participating children to run, this activity will need to be done outdoors.
Mark a line with masking tape, chalk or any other suitable way.
Mark a designated [...]
Teaching your children poems is a great literary activity. Jack Frost is a fun winter poem that would be great for young children to draw pictures to go along with the poem. Make it into a booklet for them!
Jack Frost
The door was shut, as doors should be,
Before you went to bed last night;
Yet Jack Frost [...]