Creating Learning Traditions

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The long summer holiday break is a great time to develop some new family traditions that will have the added bonus of strengthening your children’s literacy skills. Write Help your children write letters or thank you cards to everyone that … Continued

The Day Before Christmas

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It’s the day before Christmas, and all through the house Was chaos and bedlam, tears and shouts. The stockings were hung, I’m not sure with care, Now all were over-excited – it just wasn’t fair. There were zillions and zillions … Continued

My Recipe Book

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There are oodles of cooking books for children and also picture fiction books to motivate children to be excited about cooking. Here are just a few: TJ Tales: A Surprise for Mum is a story of misunderstandings based around homophones (words … Continued

Clichés

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Before computers, printing involved carving letters out of wooden  blocks, then dropping the blocks into metal to create a ‘stereotype’ from which to print.  The French word for this was ‘clicher’, a variant of ‘cliquer’ meaning ‘to click’. Some phrases … Continued

Student-Parent-School Triangle

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It is important to remember that your child’s education is a joint responsibility between the school, the child and you as a parent.  It is unrealistic to expect, especially if your child is struggling to learn a particular skill, that … Continued