It seemed to me that I was like a bird being released into and out of its cage each morning. Ninety-percent of the time school felt normal. The thing that I was perhaps most grateful for was that I got to walk into classes full of students and teach, almost completely without fear. In our bubble, we got to hold each other close. Tasmania got very lucky with coronavirus-in the sense that it quickly and unflinchingly shut up shop to the outside world-but there was also a sense of foreboding: we were always waiting for the fall, floating in a state of uncertainty. So here I am, halfway through thirty-two, trying to make sense of what came before. There is only one way to fix such a deficit. In my mission to prove her wrong, however, it doesn’t take too much scrolling to bounce straight back to the post where I turned thirty-one. I have consistently posted something-on my birthday or just after it-for the last decade. I don’t just “not write” a birthday blog. “You didn’t write a birthday blog this year,” she tells me. Once dry the children wrote with the chalk to label jars of pens, boxes of toys and drawers of paper.Mum is disappointed. I painted one side of the craft labels then left to dry. Copy and print out the following two sheets, then have fun hunting and writing the corresponding letters.įor this I needed some craft labels, chalk and chalkboard paint. There’s always something satisfying about breaking a code. This involves some cutting and sticking to prepare but is a fantastic way for children to practice letter formation. To make this I needed five different coloured sheets of card, some string and patience to cut out the thirty squares! A square craft punch would be much quicker!Ī simple printable activity sheet for a spare five minutes which helps with the sounds of letters and spelling. This activity encourages smaller writing in order to keep their words within the allotted triangle. Our first words were swimming and computer. They can pick any triangle to write on and the words can be how they feel about their day, the name of a place they visited, the name of a person they saw, a sport or an activity for example. This takes about 20 minutes to prepare but as there are 90 possible places to write a word it can last for 3 months! The idea is to write one word which describes their day. This one is a bit messy but it’s very simple and if you have a selection of glitter colours it can keep the children occupied for sometime.Īnother simple printable activity this time to help with linking numbers with the written word. Don’t worry if they come up with some nonsense rhyming words as this activity is just as much about learning to write letters as it is words. Thinking up new words to rhyme always makes children giggle so an activity combining bright pictures with rhyme can encourage them to write. I then covered the tray in rice and let the children write whatever they liked using their fingers. Using colour always brightens up a task so have different pencils ready to learn the colours of the rainbow and make writing more fun.įor this I used a small tray and placed orange coloured card at the bottom to help the letters stand out. Homework time in our house with two boys is never a breeze but it can be especially tiresome when it requires them to put pen to paper for anything other than a picture! They are both more than capable but neither see the need for it and treat it like it’s the biggest effort in the whole wide world! Hence I’ve had to get a bit creative to try and help my five year old learn to write and have come up with ten quick, easy printable activities or crafts which appeal to a young person’s short attention span and are ideal for a busy parent to organise.
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