Everything about activities – playing and learning, new and old activities
Last month, what with Christmas concerts and theatre performances, we had the highest number of posts being linked up to Music Exploration with kids. I love to get ideas from everyone else, and after reading Culture Baby’s post about The…
It’s that time of year again, when it’s all of our NCT group’s round of birthdays (for the eldest children at least). From December to pretty much February, our weekends are usually taken up with parties N is invited too….
Today, we got N’s graduation letter and certificate from Water Babies. Sad occasion, but also a sign of how far he’s come. We don’t actually finish with Water Babies until he turns 4, so we’ll swim with them until the…
Whenever we listen to music, I always try and talk to N about the different musical instruments that are playing. He mostly doesn’t get involved with discussions, but I like to talk to him about the different sounds and ways…
This month has unsurprisingly been all about the Christmas music, although there’s been a bit of CD swapping going on by N. He loves my old kitchen cd player, and he finds random cds in the kitchen drawer and plays…
Both N and I are a tad on the chatty side…(except him on the way home from nursery). I’ve always been of the belief that a child will be a lot more stable and happier if they have things explained…
N still isn’t that excited by learning letters. It astounds me when I see children the same age or younger recognising and naming all the letters in the alphabet, or writing more than their names. N’s only just drawing picture…
N starts school in September, which does seem to have come round really quickly which means its time for all the primary school visits. Many people I’ve spoken to in the same boat are really sad that their child starts…
Until we went on holiday in October, N had never watched a film all the way through. He could just about sit still for the 30 minutes of a Tractor Ted dvd, and had managed to watch 40 minutes or…
Growing up on a farm can be a wonderful life. There’s so much to experience, lots of people coming and going and of course great views and lots of outdoor life. Especially in the summer, N is able to get outdoors…
Visiting Portland Bill and Chesil Beach, and remembering school geography field trips to those places in Dorset
