Christmas Spirit

Children Using the New Role Play Area

It’s weird, you spend all this time making a role play area for the kids to use. You get the children to help you paint it and construct it, and you fill it with lovely laminated things.

And then you get quite protective of the whole thing and don’t want the children to play in it!

But I managed to stop myself from fussing over the role play area and the kids actually had some fun!

They were dressing up and pretending to be Santa, delivering presents and constructing toys in construction area! Everyone was on task! There were even two children who appointed themselves in charge of the post office!

All in all a successful role play area!

Here’s how I did it!

High Frequency and Tricky Words

Bingo Bongo

The best way to teach reading, in my opinion, is repetition. I’m trying to learn to read Chinese and the only way I’m remembering the words is by seeing them over and over again.

For little ones, learning to read is similar. They have the sounds but to translate them into written form is difficult.

Bingo is a fun way to be repetitive. The children see it as a game and don’t realise they’re learning! When I’ve left the bingo out in the classroom, the children have even chosen to play this activity by themselves!

All my resources are available online to download.

	All the High Frequency Words Bingo The high frequency words in Reception are 100 words that children are expected to be able to read by the time they go to Year One. Download the High Frequency Word Bingo
	Autumn High Frequency Word Bingo These are the words children are expected to learn by Christmas. Download the Autumn High Frequency Word Bingo
	Spring High Frequency Word Bingo These are the words children are expected to learn by Easter. Download the Spring High Frequency Word Bingo
	Summer High Frequency Word Bingo These are the words children are expected to learn by the end of the school year. Download the Summer High Frequency Word Bingo
	Tricky Word Bingo Tricky words are those words which cannot be sounded out. Good examples are ‘the’ and ‘what’. Download the Tricky Word Bingo

I hope you enjoy these resources, however if there’s any way I could change them please feel free to contact me.