You can find more ideas for celebrating book week on my current post for 2011 here – Book Week Activities 2011 – Ideas for CBCA Shortlisted Book. It is only a month …
Book Review: The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time by Mark Haddon
Welcome to the July Teach/Learn Blogging Carnival. The Teach/Learn Blogging Carnival hosted by Science@home is for anyone, because we are all teachers and learners all the time. This month our theme is …
Discipline Strategies – Helping Boys With Their Temper
Today’s post on discipline is actually a guest post from a very dear friend of mine Annie. I met Annie when she moved to Melbourne and joined our local playgroup. We were …
Organisation and Kids
At the end of May I asked readers of the blog What Would You Like To Read About? and I had such a fantastic response. On top of the fantastic comments on …
Talking With Your Children
Last week I reviewed the What’s Happening to Our Boys? AT RISK How the new technologies, drugs and alcohol, peer pressure and porn affect our boys. It certainly provided me with some …
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 Differences – What Is Dyspraxia?
This is a guest post from Mary Mountstephen, author of A Practical Guide to Support Children with Dyspraxia and Neurodevelopmental Delay and A Practical Guide to Support Children with Speech and Language …
Learning Differences – What Is Dyslexia?
This is a guest post from Mary Mountstephen, author of A Practical Guide to Support Children with Dyspraxia and Neurodevelopmental Delay and A Practical Guide to Support Children with Speech and Language …
Parenting – iPods, sibling fighting, responsibility and more!
For those of you new to Planning With Kids, once a month I feature my highlights from the web. Often they are based around a theme, like today’s collection which features resources …
Book Review: Conspiracy 365 January by Gabrielle Lord
This is a guest post by Thinker, my 11 year old son. Back in January I did some research and listed Books For Boys – 8 to 11 Year Olds. The Conspiracy …
What Bothers You About Me?
Image by trekkyandy This was the question that I asked my 11 year old a couple of months ago. What bothers you about me? It was a confronting thing to do and …
Book Review – Parenting By Kathy Walker (And Give Away!)
The give away has now closed. Thank you for visiting Planning With Kids. If you have been reading my blog for a little while, you will know that I am a massive …
Blanks Levels Of Questioning – Stimulating Children’s Language Development
At the end of February I wrote about a great booklet called Early Learners Games And Activities. This booklet not only gives you ideas of activities to do with young children but …
Fantasy Football For Kids (some very big ones too!!)
This is the second guest post from my dear husband, otherwise known as Mr I, the first being Role Reversal Experience – Mr Infrastructure. Australia over the last few years has caught …
A Collection Of Parenting Posts
Parenting is one job that always has you on a learning curve! Here are some posts that I found to inform or inspire me as a parent over the last month. 1. …
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 …
Books For Boys – 8 to 11 Year Olds
Our 8 year old and 11 year old sons both do independent reading each night as part of their school requirements and will also read of their own accord on weekends. It …
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 …