Organisation is a skill learned over time – some students in your class may naturally seem organised, whilst others may need a little practise and guidance to effectively get things done! Helping your students develop their organisational skills is necessary to foster independence! This three-step process is a great way to break down ‘being organised’…
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Organisation is a skill learned over time – some students in your class may naturally seem organised, whilst others may need a little practise and guidance to effectively get things done! Helping your students develop their organisational skills is necessary to foster independence! This three-step process is a great way to break down ‘being organised’…
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Let me guess, you’ve searched the web for back to school activities, and found heaps of ideas for early years students. But what about back to school activities for the upper years? It’s important to remember that upper year students need back to school activities as much as the preppies! In fact, they may even…
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Childcare centres across Australia are suffering staff shortages, which have been exacerbated by the COVID crisis. Many childcare workers across Australia left when parents started pulling their children out of childcare due to the pandemic, especially casuals not eligible for JobKeeper. And when the federal government introduced its temporary free childcare package, centres struggled to get the…
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Icebreakers for kids are a great way to engage with students in the first weeks of the new school year. Not only are they a fun way to encourage your students to get to know each other, but they also provide a fantastic opportunity for you to sit back and observe the little personalities that…
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Are you looking for a way to engage in meaningful discussions about the importance of being kind? Not just being kind to our classmates, but also ourselves and the environment? Why not set the tone for the rest of the year with our adorable kindness display for the classroom. This interactive and collaborative display for…
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Are you looking for a way to engage in meaningful discussions about the importance of being kind? Not just being kind to our classmates, but also ourselves and the environment? Why not set the tone for the rest of the year with our adorable kindness display for the classroom. This interactive and collaborative display for…
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During my time teaching in the primary grades, it was not unusual to have several students who would reverse (or confuse) letters and numbers during reading, writing, and math activities. Of course, because of the common link between letter and sound reversal and dyslexia, parents were often very concerned when they saw their children reversing…
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It’s the new year, and you’re probably ALMOST ready to start thinking about heading back to school. If you need a jumpstart to get you excited to head back to the classroom, then we have just the thing with these fresh and colourful classroom theme ideas! You may have seen the amazingly huge selection of…
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It’s holidays! It’s the start of the New Year, and if you’re anything like all of the teachers I know, your mind will already have started drifting back to the huge list of things you “need” to do during the school break! We all know that when it comes to preparing your classroom for a new…
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