Row row row your boat – Nursery Rhyme
Another favourite nursery rhyme. The cries of ‘again again’ are always heard after this one!
However I think I am getting too old to sit on the floor, pretending to row row row!
Category: Toddler
"A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer." unknown author
I wish I could remember being a toddler, they seem to have the most wonderful view on life, everything is new and magical. OK yes, they can be a nightmare too... Whichever mood yours is in... read on.
Number art for toddlers
This is a good fun activity for you and your toddler.
Sit with her and look through old magazines for numbers. Ask her to point out numbers when she sees them, the bigger the number the better (I don’t mean high numbers, but numbers that take up a lot of room!)
Humpty Dumpty – nursery rhyme
Humpty Dumpty – the words
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
All the kings horses
And all the kings men
Couldn’t put Humpty together again!
Little girls grow up so fast
It was only since my son started playgroup that I really noticed that little girls just seem so much more independent, organised and talkative, than little boys. The old phrase “Girls are talkers, boys are walkers” seems to be so right. Is it though, or does it just seem like that? Research has suggested that boys are more boisterious and therefore more likely to get hurt, but they are able to do pretty much the same as girls and at the same time.
Fast forward the following video to 5 mins 43 secs. Michael McIntyre sums it up so well. It’s so true and so funny. The clip is from Live at the Apollo.
Kids TV wasn’t like this when I was young!
When I was young, preschool kids TV meant Playschool each morning and Bagpuss or the Flumps if I was lucky. We certainly had no dedicated Kids TV Channel.
It is probably impossible for children today to imagine only 3 TV channels and no kids TV on a Sunday. Black Beauty was the best Sunday TV had to offer in my day. Read more »
