HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN MINI MAGNETIC BLOCKS

How to make (and play with) your own colourful mini magnetic wooden blocks!

Who doesn't love to play with blocks? I have strong memories as a child of building towers out of the cuisenaire rod sets in my mum's classroom waiting for her to finish after school. I've also confessed my love for magnets before too when I wrote about some task cards I'd made. You can click here to read that post, it remains one of my most read.

Now I'm creating memories for my own children by making some colourful mini magnetic blocks for play!

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BUILDING NUMBER SENSE IN PRESCHOOL

A look at why building number sense is so important in preschool along with some teaching ideas and activities to try to help develop strong number sense skills.

How to do to build number sense in my classroom? Let me help.

Number sense is the ability to interact with numbers flexibly but knowing where to start and how to make this happen can be confusing so I've collected all the tips and teaching strategies you need for building number sense to 20. Everything you need in a series of posts to easily implement and bring engaging number sense activities, games and centres into your classroom or home.

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8 MUST HAVE FAMILY BOARD GAMES

One of the most important things we do as a family is eat dinner together at the table each night.  Sometimes it might be a little rushed if we have to be somewhere beforehand or after, sometimes one of us might even be missing but most of the time, we sit together to eat.  

My own children are now five, eight and ten so it's not always a quiet or even peaceful affair.  Everyone who has kids knows what I'm talking about and some of you might even be asking why I bother.  Why not feed the kids early, put them to bed then enjoy a quiet dinner with my partner.  The simple answer is because it's important to me to spend that time together as a family.

Most Friday nights we, as a family, also try to play a game together after dinner and board games are our favourites. Here are 8 must have family board games to play with your family.

PERFECT PICTURE BOOKS FOR TEACHING CHILDREN ABOUT COLOUR

To continue on from my post about exploring colours using art activities, I thought I write this week about books that might provide useful support to such exploration.

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