Pre-School Educational Activity – Texture, Shapes & Letters
Texture, Shapes and Letters Materials: Black marker Paper Textured “bits” – sandpaper, beans, pasta, cotton balls, steel wool, leaves, felt and different pieces of fabric GlueInstructions: Use a black market to trace the outline of shapes or letters onto a page. Have your child decorate the shapes with the “textured bits,” using glue to secure […]
Pre-School Educational Activity – Make a Shape Book
Finding fun activities for your young children that are educational but engaging doesn’t need to feel like work. In this blog series, we’ll be giving you lots of activity ideas for children of all ages, from toddlers to Grade 3. Make a Shape Book Materials: Coloured Paper Pens Magazines Camera / Mobile phone Glue Printer […]
Reading: In a nutshell
In a nutshell: How children learn to read As parents it’s easy to become overwhelmed by all the advice we are offered on how best to help our children learn to read! It seems like everyone is telling us what to do. But, often what we really need to know is how children learn to read. Here, in a […]
Reading: Raising readers
Raising readers We all know how important it is for our children to learn to read and write. Although we rely on our children’s schools to teach them these skills, as parents we have a vital and special role to play in our children’s literacy development. Our role is not to teach our children to […]
Reading: Encouraging literacy at home
Encouraging literacy at home Homes are ideal places for children to learn about how we use reading and writing to get things done but also for pleasure. Use these simple ideas to help turn your home into a literacy-learning hub! If you want your children to become literate, they need to see you using reading […]
Reading: Helping struggling readers
Helping struggling readers Do you remember how you learnt to read? The chances are that if you found learning to read easy as a child, you can’t remember a thing about it! But speak to someone who struggled to learn how to read and they can probably recall the details of every painful moment. So, […]
Reading: Tips for reading aloud
Tips for reading aloud Reading aloud to your children helps to enrich their language, feed their imaginations and develop their literacy skills. And, when children enjoy being read to, it helps turn them into regular readers. So, the trick is make reading times something your children look forward to! Here are some ideas: Find a […]
Story sums Grade R
Story sums, problem solving sums and detective sums all refer to the same thing. These sums are language based. It is imperative that you start exploring, investigating and playing with these kinds of sums as early as possible. Many children who find the written word a challenge, find story sums very tricky when they are […]
Study tips for Maths
Studying Maths and Science, and other subjects that involve calculations, require a slightly different approach to studying other subjects. Here are some tips for doing well in these subjects: Before class or before your study session Go through each section of work to get an idea of what it’s about before your teacher starts […]
Understanding question words
It is important to look for the question words (the words that tell you what to do) to correctly understand what the examiner is asking. Once you have read the question once circle the question word and then underline any other important key words. The combination of the circled and underlined words will tell you […]