The Jungle
- Welcome and creating the Jungle backdrop using the 5x table
- Creating tissue paper parrots using grammatical techniques
- Slithering snakes and energetic elephants
- Scary spiders
- Free gift from me to you
What you'll learn
- Creative ideas to support maths
- Creative ideas to support primary English
- Incorporating creativity into their child's education
- Methods to make learning creative and fun
Description
Looking for inspiration to get creative with your child? Wanting to spice up helping them to learn their maths and English? Then look no further.
For the past 20+ years I have worked in a huge range of educational and childcare settings; a teaching assistant, an NVQ assessor, with children with profound educational needs, as a childminder, as the founder of Clara James Tutoring.
I have put ideas that I have picked up over these past 20 years and put them together in the Jungle. There are activities to help with the times tables, to write projects, create amazing paragraphs using a wide range of grammatical techniques.
Let explain it in more detail:
Roll the dice.
The number you roll dictates the sentence you write. So, if you roll a:
1) Write a sentence using 2 adjectives to describe your parrot. (Adjectives are words which describe the parrot/ object such as colours, sizes, numbers, textures, etc)
2) Write a prepositional sentence (write a sentence explaining the position of the sentence -using terms such as in, on, near, under, etc.
3) Put the parrot in a sentence that contains alliteration (repetition of words that start with the same sound).
4) Use a proper noun in this sentence (a proper noun is a name, so for example the name of the parrot, the place where he lives, unlikely in this scenario but you might use a brand)
5) Write a sentence using a verb and an adverb to describe what he likes doing (a verb is a doing word. The adverb describes the doing word and often ends in “ly”)
6) For the final sentence how about using a simile? This is when you compare something to something else using like or as. Examples of this could be: He was a colourful as a rainbow, so was as quiet as a mouse, etc
Once you have your 6 sentences about your parrot, tweak them slightly to form a paragraph. The paragraph should make an amazing example of a descriptive paragraph about your bird.
These all come hand in hand with creating elephants from milk bottles, stained-glass window parrots, scary spiders, slithering snakes.
The ideas are here to be tweaked and adapted to suit you and your own child and every single one of them can be created on a very tiny budget.
So, if you are looking to get inspired and get going, this course is just for you!
The University of Sheffield
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About the instructors
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Dawn Strachan
Create your dream tutoring business/support math & English
When my oldest daughter was young, she came across as being very clever and astute when you spoke to her, but when you saw her written work, you would think it had been produced by a completely different child. She could spell the same word 2 or 3 different ways on the same page and not notice a difference between any of them.
I asked her school if they agreed that she might be dyslexic. They instantly dismissed dyslexia as an excuse for laziness.
I didn’t have the confidence to push my point further so I decided to do everything I could to help her myself.
Over the coming years I learned everything I could about different learning styles and learning difficulties. I completed a degree in childcare and education and worked in numerous educational settings. Often with children that had profound learning difficulties.
In 2012 I started a tutoring business. Everything I had learned up to this point influenced how I presented it. Everything I had learned told me that for learning to be effective it had to be inspiring, motivating, interactive. The child needed to be relaxed, feel confident and enjoy the experience. So those were the foundations I used. Those were the principles that made us so different from so many other tutors. These experiences and influences were what have led us to be nominated for several national business awards and help numerous children in the UK and beyond, develop both confidence and knowledge in both math and English.
In addition, I am now helping families by providing short courses with explanations and suggested resources. These are the resources that we use as tutors and have proven so popular and successful.
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Andre van Staden
24-08-2023
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