Confident Curious Kids

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A text map drawn by a 5 year old today.

Space week 🪐🚀🔭

By far the most popular answer in my poll for the theme you’d like to see next!

We’re looking forward to a week of space themed play-based learning. I hope you’ll join us too. If you do, use the hashtag as I’d love to see what you’ve been up to.

Follow to make sure you don’t miss space themed phonics, maths, early writing, arts and crafts, book recommendations and much more.

I would really appreciate it if you’d take the time to share this post & tag anyone underneath who may be interested ♥️♥️

Dinosaur maths 🦖 ➕

We used our fab multi link cubes to measure how many cubes tall our .uk dinosaurs are 🦕

Language included taller, shorter, bigger, smaller, tallest and shortest.

Then unplanned, Ezra said he had been splitting 5 in to different groups at school but he didn’t get a turn so could we do some at home.

We used our gifted counting dinosaurs for this activity. Ezra showed me how he could make different combinations of groups with the 5 dinosaurs. He said, I’ve got 1 here and 4 here.

Ezra then carried on making structures out of the multi link cubes and made bridges and all sorts.

What I thought would be a quick 5 minute activity actually turned in to at least half an hour.

Remember to like & save for later. Also let me know below your favourite practical maths apparatus? ⬇️

I’ve been rather absent on this page as I’ve been setting up my Instagram .

However, from this Monday, I’ll be running weekly themes showcasing how you can introduce fun learning through play ideas at home. I’ll post these on here and on Instagram.

Activities will include

Maths ➖➕
Phonics 🔤
Tuff Trays/Sensory play
Arts and crafts 🎨
Early writing ✍️
Fiction and Non Fiction book recommendations 📚

& much more.

Our first week begins tomorrow and will be focussed around the theme of dinosaurs 🦕 🦖

Please give this post a share & tag anyone who may be interested below. ⬇️

Is there anything better than a plain box for getting their little imaginative juice’s flowing? 📦 🚀 🚘 We now save any delivery boxes we received and repurpose them ♻️

Here E is making a jungle for his animals to live in. 🐒 🕷
Using - if you haven’t tried them yet - they are INCREDIBLE.

✏️ What’s the best box creation your little ones have made?

Research has shown 3 year olds can ask an average of 100 - 300 questions every single day. 🤯 😳

These are just some of the questions I’ve been asked this week that I didn’t know how to answer…and that is okay. In fact it’s perfect.

Showing your little one that you’re still learning as an adult is amazing. It models to them that learning is life long.

Take the opportunity to find out the answers together. You could

✅ find an “expert” - ask someone else who may know

✅ Use a book

✅ Use your favourite search engine and the wonderful power of the internet

✏️ Comment below - I’d love to hear what wonderful questions your little ones have been asking recently.

COMPETITION TIME 🎉
What can you win

1️⃣ A space on my Phonics explained Webinar (perfect for parents who have got little ones starting school in September.) - This can be gifted if it doesn’t suit you at the moment.

2️⃣ A set of handmade home learning resources personalised to your child’s needs. This could be number bonds, addition, subtraction, times tables, spellings, phonics and much much more.

3️⃣ A copy of You Choose by Nick Sharratt

4️⃣ A copy of the Ugly Five by Julia Donaldson

To enter - like or love this post, like The Primary Consultant page, tag 3 friends who may be interested in this prize and share the post.

For a second chance to win head over to my Instagram the_primary_ed_consultant & give us a follow.

https://www.instagram.com/invites/contact/?i=1d0dqyhkxh4no&utm_content=o71ayuj

Competition closes Sunday 1st May at 7pm. Winner announced Monday 2nd May at 9am. Winner will announced on this page and my Instagram.

We had a brilliant day at the today 🧠 🧬 🧪
Firm favourites were the and skeletons. E added a new word to his vocabulary

Mini Brum was also fantastic. The children were in charge of their own little city. Lots of opportunities for experimenting with being a & much more.

is a incredible tool. It Improves fine motor skills, improves imagination and role play. These are just some of the many many benefits. Today it was used in a session to help learn a set of .

Much more engaging to do something out of the ordinary, rather than the usual pen and paper. In fact, he asked me to bring it back next week he enjoyed it so much.

I absolutely love this book 📕 by the fantastic .sharratt

Why?
⭐️ Endless possibilities
⭐️ Open ended
⭐️ Expands vocabulary
But most importantly and

Today I used it in a session with an eight year old boy to develop his use of conjunctions. He loved the silliness and creating his own “Dream Life.”

Excitement, nerves, apprehension, anticipation are probably just some of the emotions you’ll be feeling today.
With my little one receiving his school offer today, I am there with you 🙂

I truly hope you get the news you’ve been waiting for but if you don’t, please don’t panic. Read through our tips for some practical ideas and keep an eye on our page as they’ll be more to come.

Don’t hesitate to get in touch if there is anything at all you think I could help with.

DM to join our next Phonics Explained for parents 📚

Last week at , we had a great time.

I stand by there being nothing better than experiences to enhance children’s language and later on, writing.

My little boy has spent the last week talking about the pigs in so much detail and drawing pictures of what he saw.