This project is about taking the opportunity to explore what you can cook together. What do the ingredients look like? How do you prepare them? How do you follow a recipe? What will the food taste like?

The way your child holds their pencil when they are printing, colouring, and drawing is very important. If your child has an incorrect pencil grip it prevents full rotation and their hand will get tired as they increase the amount of drawing and writing they do. This can cause challenges when they are writing at school as they can become fatigued and discouraged.

One of the cute rhymes educators use to help them teach vowel teams to students is, “When two vowels go walking, the first one does the talking.” Although this is the case for some vowel teams it is definitely not true for over 60% of the sounds two vowels make when they are together.

Voices in the Park shares the stories of each character interacting with other characters in the same park and how each one has a different perspective relating to how they are feeling and behaving.

I was recently at a workshop where the presenter said, “I know I’m explaining everything to you here, but what I really know teachers want is just to know when a where to teach it.” This got me thinking that it would be a good idea to do just that.

Very few teachers are taught how to teach spelling. I have many teachers comment to me, “I didn’t know that.” Not only didn’t they know a spelling convention, they are very confused about how to teach it. This can create a problem. Spelling is the gateway to all learning in school.

I have found that some of my students have got into bad habits when forming their letters. They’ve created their own way of printing for speed and keeping up with classroom work. This has its challenges because I’m not only trying to break a habit but also trying to get as much practise as possible