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Next time you get a bill, talk about it with your child. What is it for? It might be for work you had done, something you ordered online or from when you last ate out as a family.Explain that the purchase or service received will be described using words, symbols and numbers. These help to tell you how much you have to pay, what you are paying for, when you need to pay and the
Before leaving the house to travel somewhere find your location on a map and identify where you want to go. Plot the best route to travel to that location. Will the route you take change if you are walking or travelling in a car or a bus? Talk about the number of streets you may need to cross and if the streets are long or short. Is the location you are travelling to close or
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.
Shadows on the wall, shadows on the ceiling…you can make shadows too.Sit with your child and use a torch or a lamp to make shadows on the wall or ceiling.Can you make a shadow with your hand? What about your feet?Talk about the way shadows are made.Your hand blocks the light from reaching the wall. That's how it makes a shadow.
Getting your child to help you with the shopping involves a little planning. What you would normally do on your own quickly will take more time when you work together.Make a list together before you go. You could use the junk mail. As you make the list talk about what items will be found.We need to get milk, cheese and yogurt. They’ll be in the cold section in the last row.
There are many different ways that you can travel. You can walk, go by car, bus, train or even by plane.You might walk to a place because it is close and you have enough time to get there. Other times you would travel by transport because it would take too long or is too far to walk.Where you are going and what you will do there will help you decide how you will travel. If you
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.