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Children are natural noticers and collectors of bits. It might be a feather found at the park or a pebble from the beach. They may have a special interest in something and collect as many different bits and pieces as they can.The toy catalogue has arrived in the letterbox. Hunt through it and see if you can find any pictures of cars you can add to your collection.Talk to your
Is it full, is it empty, is it nearly to the top, can you squish one more in before it pops? ​When you are unpacking and putting away the shopping with your child, talk about the capacity or volume of the jars you have bought. Which jar is bigger and holds more? Are all of the jars full to the top or could some of the jars hold more? How do you know what size the jar is?
Yesterday you planted new seedlings in the garden and today when you look they are not there.Where do you think they went? Did a giant rabbit sneak into the garden at night and take them home for dinner?The insects and bugs have been eating our seedling during the night. We need to go bug hunting in our garden to find them.
I spy with my little eye something that is green, soft and found outside!Next time you are waiting for an appointment, have some spare time, or travelling on the bus, play I-spy with your child.There are many different ways you can play I-spy. You might play using the first letter of the word, the colour and shape of the object or what you use it for. How you play will change
Talking about what you will eat for dinner and setting the table together helps children experiment with ways they can measure and compare their world. As you describe the food and how it will be served encourage your child to find differently shaped or sized cups and plates. As they do this they are learning about measurement and the ways they can compare or describe objects.
Before getting the shopping out of the car try and estimate with your child how many bags of shopping there will be to carry in. Talk about how many bags each of you will have to carry. Try and predict how many trips back and forth to the car that will be. Talk about which bags are full and which are not. Will the full bags be the heaviest? Place the bags on the ground and ask
Next time you have a letter to post walk with your child to the postbox. Before you go predict what you might see along the way.Will there be a dog today or will someone be watering their garden?As you walk together talk about the things you notice and describe where you see them. You could count the letterboxes as you go, trying to work out what the number is and then predict
Next time you are out and about with your child take notice of the different cars that you see. Talk about the colour, how many doors the car has, the numbers on the numberplate, or the size of the car.That car has round headlights, but the small green one has square ones.Sometimes you could make predictions about what you will see before you set off. Later on, you can compare
Everyone is different and unique. How we look and dress, what we like, the things we are good at and are interested in differs for everyone. Sometimes members of the same family can look similar. Do you all have the same hair and eye colour or is each person a little different? The boys in our family all have blue eyes but the girls have a mixture of green and brown.
Next time you are outside with your child ask them what they can see in the sky. Is it different in the morning compared to late in the afternoon or evening? There are lots of clouds up in the sky. Can you see anything else? It is very hot today. What can you see in the sky that helps us to keep warm? Talk to your child about what they can see. Is it always the same? Is the
