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THE PLAYGROUND

Welcome to the Playground.

The fourth room of the school, beside the Library, the School Garden and the Music Room: the action words our bodies do here, the things standing on the ground and the five manners that make play kind — every tile below opens its own flashcard page, and every card page has a download button and one game to play tonight.

THE ACTION WORDS

Fifteen words our bodies do at the playground.

Balance on the bench edge, catch the big ball, dig to the middle of the earth, run everywhere: every action word gets its own card, and every card is a game the body already wants to play. Tap any word to open it — what it means, how the body does it and how to practise tonight.

A Playground flashcard with the word "Balance" and a boy in a green shirt balancing on a blue bench with his arms out.BalanceA Playground flashcard with the word "Catch" and a boy catching a red, yellow and blue beach ball.CatchA Playground flashcard with the word "Climb" and a boy climbing a yellow A-frame wall with red and blue holds.ClimbA Playground flashcard with the word "Dig" and a boy digging in a blue sandbox with a red spade.DigA Playground flashcard with the word "Hide" and a boy peeking out from behind a yellow and red play panel.HideA Playground flashcard with the word "Jump" and a boy jumping mid-air with both arms up.JumpA Playground flashcard with the word "Kick" and a boy kicking a red ball.KickA Playground flashcard with the word "Play" and a boy running with both arms spread wide.PlayA Playground flashcard with the word "Pull" and a boy pulling a little red wagon.PullA Playground flashcard with the word "Push" and two children pushing a blue and yellow roundabout.PushA Playground flashcard with the word "Run" and a boy running flat out.RunA Playground flashcard with the word "Sit" and a boy sitting on a brown bench.SitA Playground flashcard with the word "Slide" and a boy going down a yellow slide with a red and blue frame.SlideA Playground flashcard with the word "Swing" and a boy swinging on a red A-frame swing.SwingA Playground flashcard with the word "Walk" and a boy walking along happily.Walk
ON THE GROUND

Twelve things you meet at the playground.

The ball that never says no, the slide that waits at the top, the sandbox with a square of beach inside it: the playground’s own furniture, one card each. Name the place before you go and the trip gets a whole vocabulary louder.

A Playground flashcard with the word "Ball" and a multicoloured beach ball in red, yellow, green, blue and purple.BallA Playground flashcard with the word "Bench" and a slatted bench painted in red, yellow and green.BenchA Playground flashcard with the word "Climb" and a red, yellow and blue dome climbing frame.Climbing FrameA Playground flashcard with the word "Fence" and a picket fence painted in red, yellow and green.FenceA Playground flashcard with the word "Ladder" and a blue ladder with rainbow-coloured rungs.LadderA Playground flashcard with the words "Monkey Bars" and a yellow and blue monkey-bar frame.Monkey BarsA Playground flashcard with the word "Sandbox" and a red and blue sandbox filled with yellow sand.SandboxA Playground flashcard with the word "Seesaw" and a red, green and blue seesaw.SeesawA Playground flashcard with the word "Slide" and a red and yellow slide with a blue ladder.Playground SlideA Playground flashcard with the words "Spring Rider" and a yellow horse on a green spring.Spring RiderA Playground flashcard with the word "Swing" and a blue A-frame swing with a green seat.Playground SwingA Playground flashcard with the word "Tunnel" and a blue and yellow crawl tunnel.Tunnel
HOW WE PLAY TOGETHER

Five manners that make the playground kind.

Help, share, stop, take turns, wait — the five words that turn a playground full of wanters into a playground full of friends. Each card gives the word, the words to say and one way to practise it before you even get there.

A Playground flashcard with the word "Help" and one child helping another up a blue step.HelpA Playground flashcard with the word "Share" and two children holding one beach ball together.ShareA Playground flashcard with the word "Stop" and a boy at the top of a red slide holding up his hand.StopA Playground flashcard with the words "Take Turns" and a girl on a swing while a boy waits beside her.Take TurnsA Playground flashcard with the word "Wait" and two boys waiting patiently by a yellow slide.Wait
PRINT & PLAY

Take the whole playground home.

All thirty-two cards live in the Playground flashcard set — every card page has a download button with the full-size image. The Playground sits in School Rooms beside the Library, the School Garden and the Music Room.