10 Amazing Sensory and Activity Games to help your Pre-schooler Learn the Alphabet
Teaching young children the alphabet is a bit like inducting them in to a secret society. ‘You mean these weird shapes and squiggles actually mean something?’
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10 Simple Things To Do with your Kids Instead of Screen-time
Screens are all around us in a myriad of forms, from the television to the computer, from the tablet to the mobile phone. There is hardly a child born in this day and age who will not have been exposed to a screen.
7 Best Colouring Pencil Brands for Serious Amateurs or Professional Artists
Colouring and colour pencils used to be child’s play… and real adults with real jobs would not dream of spending their time colouring.
Top 5 Flawless Recipes for Baking with Young Children
Baking is one of those activities that everyone says is fun to do with children, especially young children. ‘They can learn so much’, apparently… little do these ‘wise’ folk without young children know, just what a chore it is to really ‘allow’ kids loose in the kitchen
Ada Ada Ada – a Digital Performance in Tribute to Ada Lovelace
Striding confidently on to the stage in little more than her early 19th century underwear, and some really fancy boots (apparently designed by Lady Gaga’s
Indoor Climbing Activity Rigs for Active Kids
We’ve all been there, when the weather’s tremendously bad outside, and the kids have been stuck indoors for far too long. They’re bouncing of the walls, getting under your feet and generally need to work off some pent-up energy. You could head out to a jungle gym or indoor play area, but you’ve got work […]
The Best Websites to Build Word Clouds – A Visualisation of Words
Although the saying goes, ‘A picture paints a thousand words’, a thousand words also does make a pretty picture. There was a time when word clouds used to sit in the sidebar of most blogs, listing the Categories or Tags in a playful visual.
Learn Latin Online With These Free Online Courses & Resources
Latin forms the basis of almost all European languages. While it is no longer a living language, its strict structure and grammar helps learners in their understanding of how the European languages function and have developed.
Collaborative Blogging as a Reflective Learning Tool
Blogging or web logging has long been used as a journaling method; the recording of one’s written thoughts and sharing it to the public space.
Move over Comic Sans – Best Fonts to Use for Learners & Beginner Writers
Comic Sans the rounded, sans serif font, with a single storey ‘a’ and a simplified ‘g’ has often been the go-to choice for teachers looking to create teaching and learning materials.
Hack Your Learning: The 16 Best Books on Learning and Achieving Academically
I have always been a firm believer that each of our brains are highly individual; that we each have highly personalised skills and abilities that more suited for some fields of study and expertise compared to others.
TED Talks to Inspire Students to Maths
For many students, the mere mention of Math brings a shadow of dread, the boring, unyielding, uncompromising need to work at numbers in it’s abstract forms, from algebra to imaginary numbers.
How To Ace That Exam: Optimising Learning
Following on the heels of our recent article on Examinations we focus now on something all students should be taught but unfortunately aren’t, that is ‘How to Learn’.
For the Love of Math – Fascinating TED Talks on Math
For the majority of us, Math or Maths is this rather dreary, arbitrary, very abstract subject that we occasionally apply when we’re out shopping.
The Case for Exams
Since time immemorial, examinations have been used as a measure of academic success. Ancient Chinese folklore tell many tales of country youth, in their abiding desire to better themselves and their fates, head to the then-capital of Peking to sit the Imperial exams, to join the ranks of the elite Government.
The Best Books to Encourage Students to Start a Writing Habit
Writing, whether putting thoughts or imagination on to paper (or screen as the modern case may be) is a skill that once acquired is rarely lost.
The Best Mini Compact LED Projector Systems for Schools, Classrooms & Learning Spaces
The technology for projector systems have come a long way since the early days of blindly bright light-bulb OHPs (Over-Head Projectors) and the heavy weights of the mounted projectors.
Education Wish Lists – Teachers share your wish lists with Parents!
A couple of years ago, my daughter had one of those, once in a lifetime teachers – dedicated, caring and compassionate without being overbearing, focussed and best of all, she knew exactly how much push and pull was needed for each child to get them to really reach higher and reach for more. Within that […]
Drafting & Drawing Tables for the Office, Studio or College
Design studios would not be complete without one of these drafting tables. Suitable for home, office, college and university, it’s an essential piece of furniture for the creatives.
Ultimate Journals for the Coming Year
As the end of the year draws to a close, with each New Year’s resolution made, promises for a better life, a new you, anything from goals to hopes and dreams and wishes, there are few things that are able to match the promise and potential of a new year as a new journal.
