Five Minute Mum: Time For School: Easy, fun five-minute games to support Reception and Key Stage 1 children through their first years at school

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I recommend, throughout the months leading up to starting school, regularly having five minute chats about their new school. During those first few weeks show them how to empty their school bags, put their shoes and coat away and bring you any letters they got to bring home.

Try to ensure you are always saying things like ‘I saw how hard you tried to do up that button yourself” even if they didn’t actually manage to do up the button, the trying is the bit we want to praise to encourage them to continue to do so even when the outcome wasn’t quite what they wanted. Now I’m a stay at home mum who enjoys thinking up silly games to occupy my two little nose miners on a daily basis. We do our best to provide good quality books for you to read, but there is no escaping the fact that it has been owned and read by someone else previously.

So, to try and keep her sanity she started to come up with quick, easy games using stuff from around the house.

Packed full of games and activities designed to help children feel confident and excited about learning, Time For School will support them - and you!Four years later, it’s still going strong and as my children get older I find new ways to have five minutes of fun. Five Minute Mum: On the Go is the ultimate companion to any journey, staycation or holiday: 80 games to keep little ones happily - and quietly!