Recently a mum in the playground mentioned a learning activity her school aged children had enjoyed using on the computer. I am always keen to try out new educational games on the internet if they are appropriate and fun. The site is Wordle.
My Kindy daughter has been going on it every day this week. She [...]

This week my sons school had the privilege of having three children’s book authors and one illustrator! This is an opportunity too good to miss for many reasons. Firstly it is a great way to get your child into reading and books and to get an insight into the authors mind and their ideas. It is [...]

It is Book Week next week (23rd – 27th August) and this is a great occasion to get your children engrossed into the world of books (if they haven’t already!) There are so many different activities you can do to celebrate Book Week. Here are some ideas:
Make a book
Here are some ideas on how to [...]

Mondays is the day I go into my sons class to help with reading groups. I really enjoy this for a number of reasons:

I get to see my son in action in class
I get to see what kind of reading activities and word recognition games are going on in class which I can then try [...]