State Labels - chalkboard

As an extention of our learning about the states of Australia Bubble and I played a matching game. I drew the least dodgy version of our country that I could manage on the chalkboard (including state lines) and gave Bubble the names of each state one by one. We sounded out the names together and she stuck them in their correct position, either by memory or by asking me for help. Once all the labels were up we played a "Where Is" game ("where is Queensland?" etc...).

WE USED:

* Chalkboard
* Chalk
* State labels written on paper
* BluTac

Map of Australia

Since we have started the 'A' wall I am using the opportunity to teach Bubble a bit more about Australia and the state names. I made her a simple puzzle to do as a gluing activity to introduce the names and give her a visual representation of how the country is set out by using different colours for each area. This map was just traced from the net, but you could use any size image with as much detail as you like (such as capital cities, population, settlement dates etc...).

A is for Animals

Animals was next on our list for the 'A' wall. We looked through some old sticker books and Bubble found pictures of different animals that she likes and we also spelt out the word 'animals' with letters cut from the same books to give a better visual representation.

A is for Apple

Our first activity for our 'A' wall this week was an obvious one :-) Bubble created her apple and then using a word template as a guide she also put the letters in order to spell out it's name.

'A' wall

This week we have started a 'letter wall', where each week we focus on a different letter and come up with words that start with it. Bubble has learnt her alphabet a while ago so now we are moving onto phonetics and starting letters as a precurser to reading. We will stick it all up onto Bubble's wardrobe door and at the end of the week glue it all into a scrapbook before starting the next letter.