My Calendar

I believe the best way to make education easy for children is to incorporate it with day to day routines or activities. We have a morning ritual of filling in our magnetic calendar and singing nursery rhymes around the breakfast table.

It is something that everyone can do. It takes two minutes to fill in the calendar but there are lots of benefits for your children. It encourages reading and spelling. We have been doing it for the last year and my daughter is four and can read the days of the week and some of the months.  It is great for number recognition.  We have a weather section which is good for observation skills and encouraging children to think and asses whats going on around them. We sing the weather song before we check the weather.

Whats the weather, whats the weather, whats the weather like today. 

Tell me children whats the weather, whats the weather like today.

Is it sunny! Is it rainy! Is it windy out today! 

Tell me children whats the weather, whats the weather like today.

We may also sing a few other weather related songs such as 

Dream English

My sister quite often jokes around with me saying I am like a walking children's TV presenter. I would like to defend myself and say I'm not but I guess if anyone observed our morning ritual of filling in our magnetic calender, looking at flashcards, and singing songs then my goofy educational techniques may be frowned upon in the same manner.

Thanks to Dream English kids a youtube channel  I found that is dedicated to teaching children through music, we have found some great songs to fit into our morning ritual. My children's favourite is a song called The Sun Comes Up which also has really cute actions to go along with it .