Mr Men School: Building Reading Comprehension

Reading comprehension is an important skill to build.  As an adult good comprehension skills will mean being able to read a letter and fully understand its contents, or being able to follow instructions such as in a recipe or google maps.  These are all excellent reasons to encourage reading comprehension.  The best reason of all,…

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Learning Opposites with Little Miss Neat

Using the above book I introduced the concept of opposites.  I'm not B3 really understood but she enjoyed listening.  I had photocopied some of the book covers of Mr Men and Little Miss characters, which were perfect for playing an opposites matching game: First I had A5 pair up the antonyms: She then suggested we play pairs…

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Making a Mr Men Measuring Maths Tool Box

I am busy making a comprehensive set of go-to boxes to use for different mathematical or phonical school sessions for my littlest two.  This box is another maths tool box, this time all about measuring length, using standard and non standard methods.  These boxes are well worth the effort as they seem to have a universal…

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