Our July Activities!

child designing their own sports day tshirt

Our activities for your investigators!

This month your children will:

  • Design and create their own Sports Day t-shirt

  • A non-verbal reasoning challenge

  • A maths challenge to work on estimating

  • A time-focused challenge

This is a fun and active-filled box for your children.

The activity in this month’s box focuses on developing your child’s creative flair.

Did you know that doing creative activities with your children is hugely beneficial? It can encourage creative and imaginative thinking, which are important for use in a huge range of academic subjects and future careers.

Plus having creative opportunities helps children regulate their emotions, express themselves and build their self-esteem.

child mark making to create a car

Our activities for your Explorers!

This month your children will:

  • Create a dragon small-world

  • Build their own flying dragon

  • Design and make their own stamps

  • Write their own letter

Alex and I absolutely love including a small-world activity in our boxes because it is such a wonderful way for children to expand their ever-growing language skills.

During small-world play children are able to explore the new vocabulary they have heard in the book, so remember to keep the words of the month poster nearby! As your child narrates their adventures in the small world they are developing their sequencing skills which will enable them to become storytellers.

This month we have also included a writing activity but please do not worry if your child isn’t writing sentences. This activity isn’t about writing beautiful sentences.

Depending on your child they will either write or draw their letter or you can act as a scribe for them.

Some children will mark make and this is an important skill for them to develop! It may not look like any letters or words that you recognise but it will have meaning to them. So encourage them to read back to you what they have written.

This activity is all about giving your children a meaningful opportunity to write, draw, or mark make for an audience. This will make writing more enjoyable as they see the reasons why.