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 [...]

Next week both my children go to school. One for the first time and the other will start year 1.  Both children will need some kind of preparation for the start of school. So this blog is just a few thoughts on how I can prepare them for the days ahead and the new expriences [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]