Nursery rhyme cards

Love these nursery rhyme cards downloadable from here. Here is the website that they originated from.

5 little speckled frogs

I absolutely love this idea of creating a prop for the song '5 little speckled frogs' It could also be used to do numbers up to 5, adding, taking away etc

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Here are is some frog pictures which you could use or just go onto microsoft clipart and choose your own

You could adapt this tube idea for other songs or stories. Love it!

Colouring pages

There is some fab colouring pages on this site. I particularily like the Mr Men pages.

Emotional Literacy conference in Southampton

Emotional Literacy conference in Southampton. The details can be found on the ELSA website
It sounds very exciting if you live in that area.

Great Grub Club

This is a super website with lots of ideas for growing things etc

Fishing to make amends

We looked at 'guilt' and making amends today in our Friendship group. We thought we would try and make a bit of a game of it so I made this fishing game. We began by the children sorting the scenarios by 'how guilty they would feel' and have a discussion about why they felt that way. Then we thought for a bit of fun the children could fish for scenarios in pairs and then act out the scenario including making amends. Here are the fish on a pdf, the quality of the fish isn't brilliant but they are fine when printed off and laminated. We stuck paper clips around the edge (the metal ones are best for sticking to the magnet) and made a little fishing rod out of a stick, string and small magnet at the end of the string. They were quite tricky to pick up but that gave the children such a boost once they 'caught' one! Here are the fish on a worddocument so you can change the scenarios if you wish. We had some budding actors in the making!
Happy fishing!


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Doughnuts activity

On Wednesday during our friendship group snack time we had some little mini doughnuts and one year 4 girl said to me 'Do you remember when we were in year 2 you gave us big doughnuts and we had to eat them without licking our lips?' I did remember and was amazed that she had too. It was an idea in the SEAL resources on Changes and the children had to eat a sugary doughnut without licking their lips. It is extremely difficult to do. The whole idea is for the child to realise that sometimes they do things without thinking for example thumb sucking, calling out on the carpet, things that become a habit. It is very difficult to break those habits but it can be done just as eating a doughnut without licking your lips can be done.

I did reflect on the fact that this child had remembered this 2 years later and it makes you look at yourself and think carefully on how to get these teaching points across to children. Something that really stands out in their mind and makes them remember. Anyway here is a little sheet I have made which could be used for the children in pairs. Of course you could do it as a group activity/circletime. I think this activity could be done with any child no matter what the age. Even adults!

Make sure you get an extra doughnut for yourself - you deserve it!

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