World Autism Awareness Day
- Learning Resources Posted On Apr 2, 2015 | National Holidays
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There's lots of fun things to do in the holidays at home. It's time to ignore the chores for a while, kick back and make the most of the long sunny days, warm weather, and blue skies.
Well the clocks went back over the weekend, officially the end of British Summer Time! Our days will now become shorter, mornings will be darker and the ground beneath our feet will feel a little firmer. I personally love this time of year! The colours of the trees and the Autumnal fruits remind me of harvest time at school as a child; baking bread and all the assemblies about harvest songs! As an adult, I still enjoy this time of year, and watching Squirt play in the leaves with her cousins, running through puddles and then cuddling up under a duvet with a hot chocolate make this my favourite season.
The change in the season offers a wide range of topics for home and school learning:
One on my favourite products that came out this year is the Green Toysâ„¢ Tractor! It’s made from 100% recycled material, and is perfect for Autumnal imaginative play. It has chunky tyres and a detachable rear trailer for hauling all the great finds in the garden. Green Toys contain no traceable amount of Phthalates, BPA or PVC, so this Tractor is great for children from 1+.
Sneaky, Snacky Squirrelâ„¢ is our very popular Autumn-themed character here at Learning Resources. He promotes colour recognition and identification through fun game play in The Sneaky, Snacky Squirrel Colour Game! All of Sneaky’s acorns are coloured have to be collected in the tree stumps of each player!
Sneaky also has a card game! I played this recently in a product training session, here’s what they said about the game:
“We absolutely love The Sneaky, Snacky Squirrel Card Game. It is fantastic for children of any age, and even adults too! The illustrations are beautiful, and the box packaging is not only really unique in an acorn shape, but also really strong and great quality. The game is also the perfect size to be taken anywhere for instant entertainment. An example is that we have recently played the game when travelling by plane, which made the time fly by (no pun intended). One pre-warning is try not to get too excited, when you see that squirrel with an acorn and scream out ‘Snacky’, as the flight attendants may think you are demanding a bite to eat!â€
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I hope you enjoy the change in the seasons!
Until next time…
Laura
Well the clocks went back over the weekend, officially the end of British Summer Time! Our days will now become shorter, mornings will be darker and the ground beneath our feet will feel a little firmer. I personally love this time of year! The colours of the trees and the Autumnal fruits remind me of harvest time at school as a child; baking bread and all the assemblies about harvest songs! As an adult, I still enjoy this time of year, and watching Squirt play in the leaves with her cousins, running through puddles and then cuddling up under a duvet with a hot chocolate make this my favourite season.
The change in the season offers a wide range of topics for home and school learning:
One on my favourite products that came out this year is the Green Toysâ„¢ Tractor! It’s made from 100% recycled material, and is perfect for Autumnal imaginative play. It has chunky tyres and a detachable rear trailer for hauling all the great finds in the garden. Green Toys contain no traceable amount of Phthalates, BPA or PVC, so this Tractor is great for children from 1+.
Sneaky, Snacky Squirrelâ„¢ is our very popular Autumn-themed character here at Learning Resources. He promotes colour recognition and identification through fun game play in The Sneaky, Snacky Squirrel Colour Game! All of Sneaky’s acorns are coloured have to be collected in the tree stumps of each player!
Sneaky also has a card game! I played this recently in a product training session, here’s what they said about the game:
“We absolutely love The Sneaky, Snacky Squirrel Card Game. It is fantastic for children of any age, and even adults too! The illustrations are beautiful, and the box packaging is not only really unique in an acorn shape, but also really strong and great quality. The game is also the perfect size to be taken anywhere for instant entertainment. An example is that we have recently played the game when travelling by plane, which made the time fly by (no pun intended). One pre-warning is try not to get too excited, when you see that squirrel with an acorn and scream out ‘Snacky’, as the flight attendants may think you are demanding a bite to eat!â€
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I hope you enjoy the change in the seasons!
Until next time…
Laura
READ MOREIt’s British Food Fortnight, a time to celebrate all the lovely foods grown and produced in Britain! It was first held in 2002, at the same time as the traditional harvest festivals that take place in schools and churches across the country.
British Food Fortnight shouts about the health benefits and enjoyment of eating quality, fresh, seasonal and local produce. It is also helping to engage the retail, catering, education and volunteering sectors and is establishing and maintaining a larger market for British food.
The Learning Resources offices are in West Norfolk, surrounded by rural countryside and not far from the coast. We’re very lucky when it comes to regionally sourced food, with local favourites such as Cromer Crab, Norfolk Turkey and Colmans Mustard! Much of the mint grown in the UK is grown in Norfolk too!
We understand that it is important for both teachers and parents to encourage children to learn about a variety of different foods from an early age, especially those foods local to them. The Food Standards Agency highlights the importance of a healthy balanced diet for growing children. Their website suggests ways in how they can be involved, such as helping with the food shopping, talk about all the colours of foods available and encourage youngsters to prepare foods - it will make them more inclined to try them!
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Another great way to encourage children to learn about local foods and general nutrition is through imaginative play. Not only do play foods teach children about the variety of foods around us and how they look and feel, but also promotes vocabulary, sorting skills and other cross-curriculum themes.
We have a large selection of Role Play Food Sets available for learners as young as 2! The play food products in our New Sprouts range are suitable from 2 years, and contain chunky, colourful pieces specially designed for little hands!
Our Pretend & Play range food sets are life-sized and realistic, so perfect for teaching nutrition! The Healthy Meal Play Food Sets also include exercise cards to extend the learning.
For a more scientific approach to food, take a look at our Magnetic Healthy Foods. The set contains 34 foods from the five main food groups, along with a magnetic placemat, menu pad and suggested activities.
I hope you have fun celebrating British Food Fortnight, and get to sample some of the foods local to you that you perhaps haven’t tried before!
Until next time…
Laura
It’s British Food Fortnight, a time to celebrate all the lovely foods grown and produced in Britain! It was first held in 2002, at the same time as the traditional harvest festivals that take place in schools and churches across the country.
British Food Fortnight shouts about the health benefits and enjoyment of eating quality, fresh, seasonal and local produce. It is also helping to engage the retail, catering, education and volunteering sectors and is establishing and maintaining a larger market for British food.
The Learning Resources offices are in West Norfolk, surrounded by rural countryside and not far from the coast. We’re very lucky when it comes to regionally sourced food, with local favourites such as Cromer Crab, Norfolk Turkey and Colmans Mustard! Much of the mint grown in the UK is grown in Norfolk too!
We understand that it is important for both teachers and parents to encourage children to learn about a variety of different foods from an early age, especially those foods local to them. The Food Standards Agency highlights the importance of a healthy balanced diet for growing children. Their website suggests ways in how they can be involved, such as helping with the food shopping, talk about all the colours of foods available and encourage youngsters to prepare foods - it will make them more inclined to try them!
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Another great way to encourage children to learn about local foods and general nutrition is through imaginative play. Not only do play foods teach children about the variety of foods around us and how they look and feel, but also promotes vocabulary, sorting skills and other cross-curriculum themes.
We have a large selection of Role Play Food Sets available for learners as young as 2! The play food products in our New Sprouts range are suitable from 2 years, and contain chunky, colourful pieces specially designed for little hands!
Our Pretend & Play range food sets are life-sized and realistic, so perfect for teaching nutrition! The Healthy Meal Play Food Sets also include exercise cards to extend the learning.
For a more scientific approach to food, take a look at our Magnetic Healthy Foods. The set contains 34 foods from the five main food groups, along with a magnetic placemat, menu pad and suggested activities.
I hope you have fun celebrating British Food Fortnight, and get to sample some of the foods local to you that you perhaps haven’t tried before!
Until next time…
Laura
READ MOREIt’s National Cupcake Week this week, and being an avid cupcake baker I, and my cake-loving colleagues here at Learning Resources are looking forward to the treats. Squirt and I got messy in the kitchen over the weekend to make some cupcakes to bring to the Learning Resources offices for National Cupcake Week; here are our results!
Baking is a great way to get children practising a variety of skills! From reading a list of ingredients and weighing them into a bowl, to watching the clock so their creations don’t burn.
If you don’t fancy letting your children loose in the kitchen just yet, we have a variety of products around the topic of cakes and baking to help encourage basic early skills!
Smart Snacks Shape Sorting Cupcakes
A delicious way to develop shape and colour identification. Fix the cupcakes together by matching the shapes of the top and bottom halves, then match them to the correct shapes in the tin!
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Children can bake their favourite flavour combinations in this pie, while learning early numeracy skills such as sorting, colour identification and patterning. The Jumbo Tweezers are great for developing motor skills too.
Get matching with familiar kitchen equipment, sorting in and out of life-sized muffin tins with the Mini Muffin Match Up Maths Activity Set. The Squeezy Tweezers are great for reinforcing fine motor skills.
I hope you have a tasty week!
Until next time…
Laura
It’s National Cupcake Week this week, and being an avid cupcake baker I, and my cake-loving colleagues here at Learning Resources are looking forward to the treats. Squirt and I got messy in the kitchen over the weekend to make some cupcakes to bring to the Learning Resources offices for National Cupcake Week; here are our results!
Baking is a great way to get children practising a variety of skills! From reading a list of ingredients and weighing them into a bowl, to watching the clock so their creations don’t burn.
If you don’t fancy letting your children loose in the kitchen just yet, we have a variety of products around the topic of cakes and baking to help encourage basic early skills!
Smart Snacks Shape Sorting Cupcakes
A delicious way to develop shape and colour identification. Fix the cupcakes together by matching the shapes of the top and bottom halves, then match them to the correct shapes in the tin!
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Children can bake their favourite flavour combinations in this pie, while learning early numeracy skills such as sorting, colour identification and patterning. The Jumbo Tweezers are great for developing motor skills too.
Get matching with familiar kitchen equipment, sorting in and out of life-sized muffin tins with the Mini Muffin Match Up Maths Activity Set. The Squeezy Tweezers are great for reinforcing fine motor skills.
I hope you have a tasty week!
Until next time…
Laura
READ MOREHello!
Today is the International Day of Literacy! Thanks to UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation) the International Day of Literacy was first celebrated in 1966 to highlight the importance of literacy to individuals, communities and societies. Celebrations of ILD have been taking place all over the world for 48 years, reminding the international community of the important skills; reading and writing.
1 in 5 adults worldwide cannot read or write, this unbelievable statistic equates to 776 million people. Writing your own name or reading a line out of a book is a basic educational skill that countries like ours don’t need to worry about, but individuals in many third world countries are denied these skills.
UNESCO’s aim is to tackle the link between poverty and literacy, and raise public awareness of the priceless value of the written word, and of the necessity to promote an educated, literate society.
It’s hard to think where we would be without basic literacy, for one I wouldn’t be writing this blog article, and you wouldn’t be reading it! Personally, reading and writing are two things I really enjoy, and I couldn’t imagine my life without these skills. 1 in 6 people in the UK struggle with literacy, a figure which UNESCO and other charities such as The National Literacy Trust are trying to reduce.
Each year, UNESCO awards International Literacy Prizes of $20,000. Winners in 2013 included Literate India, and The Dhaka Ahsania Mission in Bangladesh. This year’s theme is Literacy and Sustainability Development, with prizes already set to be received by the Lifelong Learning School for Community Development Poligono Sur in Spain and the The Molteno Institute for Language and Literacy in South Africa.
At Learning Resources we understand the importance of introducing literacy at an early age, giving young learners the opportunity to have fun while learning an important, fundamental skill. From phonics resources through to grammar and reading comprehension, we have literacy resources to motivate and engage children into developing their reading, writing and vocabulary skills.
If you would like more information about UNESCO and the International Day of Literacy, visit their website at http://en.unesco.org/events/international-literacy-day-2014.
Until next time…
Laura
Hello!
Today is the International Day of Literacy! Thanks to UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation) the International Day of Literacy was first celebrated in 1966 to highlight the importance of literacy to individuals, communities and societies. Celebrations of ILD have been taking place all over the world for 48 years, reminding the international community of the important skills; reading and writing.
1 in 5 adults worldwide cannot read or write, this unbelievable statistic equates to 776 million people. Writing your own name or reading a line out of a book is a basic educational skill that countries like ours don’t need to worry about, but individuals in many third world countries are denied these skills.
UNESCO’s aim is to tackle the link between poverty and literacy, and raise public awareness of the priceless value of the written word, and of the necessity to promote an educated, literate society.
It’s hard to think where we would be without basic literacy, for one I wouldn’t be writing this blog article, and you wouldn’t be reading it! Personally, reading and writing are two things I really enjoy, and I couldn’t imagine my life without these skills. 1 in 6 people in the UK struggle with literacy, a figure which UNESCO and other charities such as The National Literacy Trust are trying to reduce.
Each year, UNESCO awards International Literacy Prizes of $20,000. Winners in 2013 included Literate India, and The Dhaka Ahsania Mission in Bangladesh. This year’s theme is Literacy and Sustainability Development, with prizes already set to be received by the Lifelong Learning School for Community Development Poligono Sur in Spain and the The Molteno Institute for Language and Literacy in South Africa.
At Learning Resources we understand the importance of introducing literacy at an early age, giving young learners the opportunity to have fun while learning an important, fundamental skill. From phonics resources through to grammar and reading comprehension, we have literacy resources to motivate and engage children into developing their reading, writing and vocabulary skills.
If you would like more information about UNESCO and the International Day of Literacy, visit their website at http://en.unesco.org/events/international-literacy-day-2014.
Until next time…
Laura