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Creative Writing Stories – Primary School Homework

August 25, 2011

Today’s post is my response to a reader’s email. A disclaimer up front again – I am not a teacher. The insight I provide on helping kids with their homework, in this case creative writing stories, is based on my experience and the research I have undertaken. I have read your book and you are [...]

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Homework Area

January 21, 2011

I set up this homework area about half way through last year for the kids. It has been a great success, helping to: keep all the required items in one place giving the kids somewhere to keep projects they are working on provide a central place for the kids to work Each child has a [...]

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Managing Homework With Little Children About

August 13, 2009

On my post on Magic 100 Words or Sight Words a number of people asked how do I manage to work with my prep child on these activities with younger (and older!!) children around. Firstly I will say that it is a juggle and it doesn’t always go quite as interruption free as I would [...]

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10 Tips For Managing After School Activities

March 10, 2009

Image by Tom@HK A few weeks ago, I wrote about taking the time to ask questions to check the comprehension of the children’s nightly reading. However for most families, this is only one of many activities that needs to occur after school. With the more children attending school, the greater the number of after school [...]

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10 Reading Comprehension Questions For Junior Primary

February 17, 2009

Image by apdk A couple of weeks in to the new school year and we are starting to get back into the swing of after school reading routines. At our school preps don’t receive a reader until term two, allowing them the first term to just focus on settling into school, making friends and getting [...]

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10 Homework Tips For Parents

October 7, 2008

Image by Luiginter I would firstly like to state that I am not an advocate of homework in primary school. I will avoid jumping up on to my soap box here, but will say that Alfie Kohn has written an excellent book called the The Homework Myth: Why Our Kids Get Too Much of a [...]