September News Round Up

I thought today I'd let you know of some of September's news.
Littlesheep Learning is a featured business in Daffodil Design Featuring Work at Home Businesses Littlesheep Learning
Littlesheep Learning has also had an article featured at Treehugger Mums about crafty ideas to preserve Summer Memories. We write monthly for Treehugger Mums, our last article was Taking Turns.

I think that's it for this month - I'm currently working on next months article for Treehugger Mums and have submitted a few new ones to Mumszone Parents Forum so hopefully there will be more to announce next month.

Testimonial

I got this email this morning - it's the little things like this that make it all worthwhile...

Hi Elaine,
received my order - am really really pleased. Thanks so much for great products and quick delivery.
Many thanks
Meghan

Remember if you have purchased from us, if you review the products you've bought we will send you a 5% discount code for your next order.

Feel free to add your testimonials / reviews as comments to this post - and I'll get back to you with the discount code!

Site Information - Update

Thanks to Alison at Daffodil Design for the changes to our site. We hope our customers find it more inviting - look out for more new products coming soon.

Sight Reading - High Frequency Words

Introduction
High frequency words are the essential words which pupils will need, to be able to read even very simple texts. Some of these words have irregular or difficult spellings and are often difficult to predict from the surrounding text. The list is in two sections with 45 words to be achieved by the end of the reception year (YR) and approximately 150 words to be learned between Years 1 and 2. By the end of Y2, pupils should be able to read all these words easily, in and out of context.

Reception Words

I	are	big	it	he
go	the	she	at	am
come	of	and	play	all
went	we	they	no	is
up	this	my	yes	cat
you	dog	see	for	get
day	me	on	a	said
was	like	away	dad	to
look	going	mum	an	in

Reception Year Words are available as laminated flashcards from Littlesheep Learning

Year 1 and 2 Words

about	can't	her	many	over
then	who	after	could	here
people	there	will	again	did
him	more	push	these	with
an	do	his	much	pull
three	would	another	don't	home
must	put	time	your	as
dig	house	name	ran	too
back	door	how	new	saw
took	ball	down	if	next
school	tree	be	first	jump
night	seen	two	because	from
just	not	should	us	bed
girl	last	now	sister	very
been	good	laugh	off	so
want	boy	got	little	old
some	water	brother	had	live(d)
once	take	way	but	half
love	one	than	were	by
has	made	or	that	what
call(ed)	have	make	our	their
when	came	help	man	out
them	where	may

Plus: days of the week, months of the year, numbers to twenty, common colour words, pupil's name and address, and the name and address of their school.

September 2006 News

Back to School - September is the time for the return to school, whether you are preparing for the first day at nursery or a new school or returning Littlesheep Learning would like to wish you good luck and a happy and successful year.

Please take a look at our special selection of back to school items in our Seasonal section including the popular Usborne First Experiences title Going to School.

We also have a link to the BBC 'step up to nursery' and 'step up to school' online magazines from our News page which contain lots of information about learning and contain vouchers for money off popular BBC children's magazines.

Rol 'n' Write

We are now stocking the Rol 'n' Write alphabet and numbers. I first came across these when working with a child with autism who had additional gross and fine motor difficulties, he found learning letter formations extremely difficult and we used these as part of a multisensory programme to help reinforce the skills needed for writing in a fun way.

These plastic 'cards' have a path which a ball bearing follows to demonstrate the correct formation. Choose any letter or number, place the ball on the starting point – as indicated by the arrow – and watch it roll along the groove, tracking the correct formation. The ball even retraces its own path for letters such as ‘d’ or ‘p’.