Today I am delighted to be sharing with you a new series called  Exploring Reggio, with four of my favourite blogs.

Fortnightly you can join myself, along with Anna from The Imagination Tree, Kate from An Everyday Story, Ness from One Perfect Day and Stephanie from Twodaloo as we take you on a journey of learning and self discovery of the Reggio Emilia teaching philosophy and how we are integrating this into our own homes and classrooms.

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When we heard that Woolworths were partnering with Taronga Conservation Society to launch an exclusive collection of Aussie Animals collector cards, we were keen to head into store and check them out for ourselves.

My children, like most that I know, absolutely love animals and everything to do with animals! As a mother and a teacher, I believe that learning about and growing empathy, awareness, respect and understanding for the other living creatures that we share our world with is important for all children in order to help ensure the future of these incredible creatures. Forming their own collection of animal pictures and facts, such as the opportunity these cards present,  makes learning about animals fun and exciting and is a perfect way to get children more interested in our wildlife.

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Animal crafts and activities

These great posts all came from last weeks Tuesday Tots linkup
where we featured Tree Themed Activities

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We love making our own greeting cards because aside from being cheaper and more meaningful, they also provide us with opportunities to develop language, be creative and practice some literacy skills such as writing and reading.

Ages: 3+

(See the Handy Tips at the bottom to simplify or extend to meet your child's needs)

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8 Tree Themed Activities for Kids

These great posts all came from last weeks Tuesday Tots linkup
where we featured 12 DIY Activities for Kids

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Regardless of the time of year, tree crafts and activities are very popular for children as they demonstrate the changing of the seasons in an obvious and sometimes spectacular fashion. Here are some lovely tree themed activities from last week's link-up that you could adapt to suit whichever season you are in.

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Here is a simple Sight Word Reading Game that we played the other day.

As learning sight words is all about repetition and exposure, we try to encourage the reading and writing of the words as often as possible. By turning the reading of the words into a game, you will find children suddenly want to play!

Ages: 3+

(See the Handy Tips at the bottom to simplify or extend to meet your child's needs)

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12 Fun DIY Activities for kids

These great posts all came from last weeks Tuesday Tots linkup
where we featured Activities with Cars and Trucks

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There were a lot of great DIY ideas and activities in last week's link-up that I thought you would enjoy. There is a certain type of satisfaction that comes from creating something that you could otherwise purchase and I love showing my kids just how and where things come from and how it is possible to make them ourselves.

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My toddler, like many, has a real fascination with water and will happily play with anything involving water for quite some time. Water play is fabulous when the weather is hot and especially when you can get outside, but living in Melbourne, Australia, this is certainly not the case all the time so I have to come up with ways that we can still play and investigate with water, whilst inside, without making a huge mess!

Here is a fun sensory Invitation to Play with water inside that encourages skills such as pouring, transferring and scooping whilst investigating size, depth, width, absorbency, capacity and more.

Ages: 12 months +

(N is currently 22 months old here. See the handy tips at the bottom to Simplify and Extend to suit your child's needs) 

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This tactile and quick set up activity is fabulous for practicing number recognition, counting and one-to-to correspondence. We used it to help consolidate our knowledge of teen numbers but you can adjust to suit whichever numbers you are working on.

Ages: 2+

(Maddie was 4 here. See the bottom for Handy Tips to simplify or extend to meet your child's needs)

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Welcome again to this week's TUESDAY TOTS.
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and One Perfect Day

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22 ways to play and learn with Cars and Trucks

These great posts all came from last weeks Tuesday Tots linkup
where we featured 10 Backyard Play Ideas

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With a growing collection of toy cars and trucks at our place, I was delighted to see all the different ways that you can play and incorporate learning with them. Here I've featured 22 great posts with a selection of different ways that you can mix up your child's play.

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