Home Learning Environment

Easter holiday is here and Little-N & I are staying put in London. Yesterday I decided to set up Little-Ns learning environment in the conservatory. It's been years since he had a proper learning environment at home, the last few years have involved so much house moving I never felt  ready to make one.

This large shelf unit was unused, the chairs and table where in the store room and activities where in my bedroom cupboard/drawers. This isn't an area where I plan to teach him, but just somewhere he can work/play and learn on his own.

I have a selection of different activities out:

Books: his encyclopedias and appropriate reading level books.

Crafts: All sorts of bits and bobs, glue, tape, paper, beads, play dough and painting. 

Mathematics: Addition chart A and B, golden beads activities. 

Sensorial and  Geometry: Pattern blocks stamps, colour box 3, tessellation shapes, pentominoes, constructive triangles box  6, puzzles, tangram and blocks.

Language: Chalk board, writing paper, reading books. I'm hoping to make some of the green level sentences that he is working on at school. 

I also have a few materials for learning Arabic: Basket of animals [to learn names], Arabic cut out letters [instead of moveable alphabet], Arabic dictionary.

I also have a microscope activity on the shelf  which I presented to Little-N this morning.

The activities are all self contained and mats are provided where needed.

I'm hoping to add a few more things over the next few days, let me know if you have any ideas :)