Is your child at the age where they are starting to draw? Scribble? Attempt letter formation? 

If so then it's important to help them hold their pen or pencil correctly. 

Every child is different and some may love drawing and writing while others may prefer voicing their phonics instead

That's ok - you know your little one best so don't stress!

Here are some hints and tips to help your child

🇫🇷 Let’s go to France! 🇫🇷

🇫🇷Bonjour is hello in French. Encourage the children to say bonjour when seeing any family and friends today or over the phone.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 In England we have a royal family. Look at pictures of Buckingham palace and the Crown Jewels. Let’s get creative!  👑 Make a crown for the children to wear and pretend to be the queen for the day. 👑

• The Grand Place is always packed with people. There are tourists and school groups during the day and during the night, people sit on the stones in small circles drinking and talking. Can you become a builder and construct something that you think tourists would want to visit? Something grand, like a castle or the grand place. You may want to show the children books or pictures of other buildings. It may be a building of interest to you or to them, such as their school or nursery. This is really good for drawing on aspects of their own life and children sharing their own experiences. 
• Look at the shape of the country. Draw round the edge of the land on the card with your child and look at the world map to see if they can find it. What do you notice about the shape compared to yesterday? It is important children compare the similarities and differences. The current population of Belgium in 2021 is 11,632,326. Compared to  25,749,369 in Australia . Therefore explain to the children that more than double the amount of people live in Australia than in Belgium!
• Look at the flag. Today is all about black, yellow and red. We need to find as many things in the house as we can that are black yellow or red. Once the children have found objects, they need to count and compare which one has the most. Try and push the objects together into three rectangles to resemble the Belgium flag. 
• Tasting: This is the BEST bit. Look at the card with the children. What foods can you see? What can you tell me about these? Are they healthy or unhealthy? Taste different chips, chocolate and waffles. Compare the taste of each and encourage children to describe what it taste like and what it feels like in their mouth. Remind the children that taste is one of their senses. 

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I have noticed a lot of questions coming up from parents are all talking about the same thing. How do I get my child to count?

Well, my advice is don’t rush!

It is important that children do not rush through the numbers because this stops them from learning number sense. It is vital that all children have number sense in order to help with progress as they go throughout primary school.

Therefore, my advice is take is one day at a time, one number at a time.

Each day, week or fortnight, whatever is best for your children. Focus on one number. Break this number down, use it in different activities.

For example, lets look at the number 4:

-Can you do 4 star jumps?

-Can you make me 4 cakes with the playdoh?

-Can you stir the porridge four times?

-2+2=4 3+1=4 1+3=4 4+0=4 Therefore, this is showing children that the number can be broken down in different ways.

-Can you write the number 4?

-Do you know anyone that is 4 years old?

-What is one more than 4?

-What is one less than 4?

-Point out when it is 4 o clock.

-Can you find me 4 sticks? Can you find 1 long stick and three short sticks? How many have you got altogether?

-Can you split the pizza into 4? How many people can you share it between?

-Point (one to one correspondence) counting to 4.

It is key, that you do not go onto the next number until the child is secure with the number sense. Sometimes we rush children through counting because wen want to tell everyone they can count to 100 but this will not help them in the long run.

Any questions on ‘Don’t rush’ just ask