Hi, I am a mum and a teacher and during this strange and uncertain times, I will be home with a 7, 4 and 2 year old.
I teach 2 days a week at a Catholic Primary School.
I thought i would start a blog to share some activities I will do with my kids as well as some advice wearing my teacher hat.
Will I be going crazy at home with my children? Yes, but this is also a chance to bond with them and reassure them that they are loved and we will all be ok!
As a teacher, normally when there is something big going on in the world, we are with our students, helping and guiding them as well as offering routine and stability. I think the fact that we aren't with our students during this time is the reason so many teachers are offering assistance and help to anyone they can.
Please feel free to use anything on this Blog. i am by no means an expert or guru and a lot of the ideas and activities are not mine but have been shared with me by excellent, hard working teachers or fantastic, loving and real mothers.
Today we had a math lesson. Nothing hard! at the moment as we are not sure exactly what our children need to learn we just worked on number sense. Just counting and knowing how numbers are made up eg, tens and one. Ask your children questions like - What comes before a certain number? what comes after? what is ten more or ten less?
We played Number Trains which is great for counting from numbers other than 0. It also has different levels so every child will find a suitable level.
We also played a counting game called Traffic Lights. We used a iPAD 100's chat but a paper one is fine too. Play in partners. Place a green counter where you want your partner to start counting and a red counter where you want your partner to stop. Your partner then says every number between the counters. This game is awesome for different abilities. Eg Miss A does numbers between 1 and 20 and Mr I can do numbers between 60 and 120.
We played Number Trains which is great for counting from numbers other than 0. It also has different levels so every child will find a suitable level. 
We also played a counting game called Traffic Lights. We used a iPAD 100's chat but a paper one is fine too. Play in partners. Place a green counter where you want your partner to start counting and a red counter where you want your partner to stop. Your partner then says every number between the counters. This game is awesome for different abilities. Eg Miss A does numbers between 1 and 20 and Mr I can do numbers between 60 and 120.
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