This post on an Acrostic Poem is the first in a series of 21 kids activities you can easily do at home. It is the first post in my 21 Challenge. I …
10 Great Links on Literacy and Play for Kids
There is so much inspiration to be found in the blogosphere when it comes to kids literacy and play. My round up post this month focuses on creative ways bloggers are sharing …
Retro 10 Things
Usually for the last Tuesday of the month I highlight 10 kids activities in Melbourne for the upcoming month. I love putting those posts together, but they do take a number of …
Sight Word Activities and Games
THIS PACK IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE Edward William Dolch, PhD published a book “Problems in Reading” in 1948 which contained a list of frequently used words in the English language. The Dolch …
Education and Literacy
Image source:allaboutgeorge As we are about to head back to school here in the southern hemisphere I thought I would share some of my most recent favourite education flavoured posts that I …
Preparing Your Child To Read
This post is part of a series on Preparing For School. The aim of this series is to provide tips on how you can get organised and support a smooth transition into …
World News For Kids
Turning on the evening news some nights can lead to a stream of violent or upsetting images which are not appropriate for younger kids. As a consequence we have chosen not to …
Listening To My Favourite Authors
Last year my eldest son went to the Melbourne Writers Festival Schools Program for the first time. He had a great time (you can read his review from last year here) and …
LEGO and Literacy
This fabulous guest post comes from Susan Stephenson. Susan Stephenson isn’t teaching face to face with kids right now, but she is still reaching out to kids through their parents. Susan blogs …
Reading, Learning and Education
Reading and all things literacy have been a big focus in our house over the last month or so. This focus has permeating my blog reading and as such this month’s highlights …
Learning As We Walk
Welcome to the May Teach/Learn Blogging Carnival, ‘Kids and Learning.’ The Teach/Learn Blogging Carnival hosted by Science@home is for anyone, because we are all teachers and learners. This month our bloggers have …
10 Online Games For Learning The Alphabet
I am not a flashcard type of mum, but I do like to follow the lead of my children and at the moment my preschooler is showing lots of interest in the …
Current Issues In Schools and Education
This month’s 10 posts collection has a school and education theme. In Australia, this is the time of year when the new school year begins, so thought it it apt to focus …
10 Online Games To Practice Sight Words
In a previous post I wrote about 10 Resources On Children’s Literacy. They were resources on the web that I have used for ideas, strategies and to educate myself in the area …
10 Resources On Children’s Literacy
Image by qwrrtyWatching a child learn to read is one of the joys of parenthood to me. Seeing the child’s excitement at being able to work out what the words on the …
Mem Fox Reading
I love Mem Fox’s books. If I had to choose a favourite it would be a toss up between Where is the green sheep? and Hunwick’s Egg. I recently came across these …
10 Great Australian Blogs
I have recently updated my blogroll. For those of you not familiar with that term it is the list of blogs that I frequent and is listed on the right hand side …
Sight Word Lists Activities
Last week I wrote about some beginner phonic activities that I have been playing with our 5 year old. As I mentioned there, the school that Possum attends uses a combination of …