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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Start once you know your school place, mentioning it every so often, then as you approach a month or two before try and have a chat every couple of days or so. So I started doing bits and bobs, five minutes a day, to help get him ready the best way I knew how. If you’re doing a little something here and there to support them then you are building those crucial blocks. 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.

It talks them through every aspect of modern day school life with a group of five friends and Maurice the Five Minute Mole. So, to try and keep her sanity she started to come up with quick, easy games using stuff from around the house. Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. I am mum to Ewan (7) and Florence (5) and was previously a Teaching Assistant working in primary schools.

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! I keep relaying this message time and time again whenever they get stuck with something or frustrated and just hope they will remember it at school when the time comes.

Use the plastic punnets that fruit from the supermarket comes in to organise your snack drawer or cupboard. These games are roughly for ages 5-7 and are designed to make homework more fun or to encourage reading, writing and maths at home in an easy way, that doesn’t feel like a chore. So we adjust as teachers and find new interesting and different ways to teach them, but the blocks are still stacking up.

This saves constantly putting more cups in the dishwasher or them asking for a drink the second you’ve sat your arse down - always the way isn’t it? 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. Read a starting school book together - now obviously I’m going to recommend my own one (blow my own trumpet much?