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We recently spent a week focusing on learning more about our five senses. We read some great books on the subject, from friends and from the library. Here are some of the fun activities we got up to, most of them from Learn-Play-Imagine: SENSE OF TASTE We played a game where I blindfolded the kids and then gave them different…
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We’ve got some really good books on learning about the weather and the different seasons, but here are some of the fun activities that we’ve used to reinforce the ideas and concepts. THE WEATHER GAME We love playing this free printable weather game. It’s fun and helps the kids remember the weather terms, and of course anything with dice reinforces…
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These are just some learning ideas from the week we did courage and leadership as the theme of the week MAIN READING We read The Herd Boy, written by Niki Daly, from our Little Footprints collection. It’s a touching story about a boy who spends his days herding his family’s animals but has great dreams of someday becoming the president. We…
Continue readingSo, I’ve been struggling to teach Kumi (3) to name her colours for a while. She has no problem grouping things into the same colours, but naming the colours is another story. So we’ve been trying hard to associate the colours with everyday things she’s familiar with, eg. This is red like your scooter, etc…..and we’ve seen some improvement. So…
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So, today was one of those days I was really glad to be a stay at home mom 🙂 . The temperature in Jozi was 10 degrees haha! *hides*. Yeah, look, there are some benefits after all haha! The three of us were cooped up in one room with a heater the whole day, and even though I don’t like…
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I'm Unathi (aka MamakaKumi), and the main storyteller here :) I hope you enjoy reading about our colourful life :)
