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We’re Going on a Journey to the Seaside!
We’re going on a journey to the seaside!
Along with the theme Animals, I have found ‘Travel and Transport’ is a firm favourite with the children. ‘We’re going on a journey to the seaside!’ is a line from a song I wrote to get the children to play with sound; I ask them to make the different transport sounds, with the car sound usually being the favourite!
Do you have a collection of travel and transport themed songs and rhymes up your sleeve? Whether you follow a topic/theme or the children’s…
Talk like a Pirate!
Do you follow calendar events in your early years setting? Did you know that on the 19th September it is ‘Talk like a pirate day’? Well, I didn’t until a couple of years ago. It hasn’t been around that long but I think some of the new events are quite fun as a starting point. Whether, in your setting, you plan most of the activities or it is child led, themed days can be a great stimulus.
For example with ‘Talk like a pirate day’, there are lots of ways you could incorporate this theme in a …
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