Developing Your Child’s Social Skills under 5 Infants go through an array of developments from 0-5 years old and this includes social developments too. In the chart below you will find a breakdown of how your child develops socially over the years and how you can support this and improve it. Developing your child’s social …
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Developing your child’s social skills in particular politeness will impact how well they develop relationships with others. Most parents want their children to grow up having manners and being polite as first impressions really do matter. To ensure your child gains these skills well, you should teach them how to be polite, as soon as …
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In order for your child’s speech to develop children need to have ample opportunity to practise. This means you need to give your child a lot of opportunity to speak and talk to them to model how to speak to others. Even if they are babies, look them in the eye and try to talk …
The Mayan Civilisation is a great history topic, suitable for children in Year 3 to Year 6. I taught my daughter about this topic after covering it with year 4 children in a school I was teaching at. I didn’t have all the resources the school had, because I didn’t have access to the subscriptions …
Listen to, read along or pause and read it yourself, even better get your child to read it. A great little book for children to practice their reading or listen to at bedtime.
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Developing Reading Readiness Before your child can read and have good reading skills, they need to be ready to read. This is what we call reading readiness, but how do you know when your child is ready to read? And what is the best way to build reading skills at home? These are two questions …
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What is the best way to teach a 5-year-old to read? Pain-free? The short answer to this question is slowly! You need a lot of patience to teach a 5 year old to read, and you need to be extra supportive. Don’t underestimate how difficult this task is for your child, and don’t think there …
To start teaching addition to 5 year olds, you need to remember 2 things. It must be fun It’s an everyday occurrence and part of life The reason I say this, is because it is easy to get caught up in the idea that addition is… only part of maths, which is a calculation …which …
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What are Number bonds? Number bonds to 10, 20, 100, or any number for that matter, are a mental maths strategy. They are an easy way to learn simple addition facts by learning numbers in pairs. For this reason, they are sometimes called ‘Number Pairs’. These can later be used to make more complicated additions …
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