It isn’t always easy to keep our children entertained. Thankfully, the summer seems to make it that little bit easier. The warmer weather, longer days and plenty of events and things to do seem to fill our planners – but what if you are stuck for things to do? There are some ways that you […]
Learning about weather
We’ve been learning about and discussing weather this week. We’ve chatted about it in the car on the school run and then I’ve carried that on with the little boys by talking about the shapes and colours in the sky. We talked about all the different kinds of weather we have and what their favourite […]
Staying warm and dry on the school run
The school runs and playgroup runs are synonymous with rain much of the time. This last few weeks it’s been more snow. I swear that the moment I put my coat and boots on and start piling children and bags into the car it immediately chucks it down. Of course, it’s the same the other […]
Winter essentials for children
Although we seemed to have a really mild December last year, the temperature has dropped quite a lot since the start of the year. Although, the festive spirit of December may have meant a more positive outlook for people, especially with time off work, with family time and time for playing at websites like this one. […]
Little people, big questions: part four
Welcome to part four of our series on “Little people, big questions”. If you have been following this series you will know that so far we have covered: the election; how the baby gets in; and how the baby gets out. Part four relates to how the world began and the series of events which […]
The end of summer
So the summer is over… I don’t really feel that it ever began to be honest. We’ve hardly had any hot sunny days and the paddling pool got used twice which was so disappointing. Now it’s September does that mean I can legitimately start wearing my boots again, or should I try and wait a […]
Little green fingers: part three
If you have been reading this series so far you will know that in part one we looked at a garden project we have been working on at school. We have been in the school garden for several weeks now and things have really changed over the last few weeks. It is starting to get […]