I didn't know much about the Montessori approach before having my daughter apart from once hearing a head Montessori teacher present to my cohort while I was studying teaching. When my daughter was 6 months, a new mum at my mother's group mentioned she had started at a Montessori Parent Child program at the local Montessori school and was loving it. I was quite curious and signed us up and am so happy about this decision! I think what I’ve loved most about our classes is the support and education it’s given me as a parent. Each week I …
Playful Word Awareness Activity To Help Develop Early Literacy Skills
Sharing with you today a simple activity to help build your child's WORD AWARENESS skills. Before being able to read words on a page children need to be able to identify words in spoken language. A super simple way to start this is in every day conversations. Children start to understand that objects have names and those names are words. If you’re holding a book you could say something like “Here is a book, ‘book’ is a word.” Or when pointing to a chair say “There is a chair, ‘chair’ is a word.” Word Awareness Activity For …
10 Inspiring Positive Parenting Quotes
10 Inspiring Positive Parenting Quotes Sometimes we just need a little bit of a reminder to slow down and see the beauty in the everyday moments. Children are the best teachers of living in the present and remind us to appreciate the small things. I've collected some of my favourite Positive Parenting quotes that inspire a more gentle and respectful approach to parenting. No parent is ALWAYS conscious, gentle, positive, peaceful and authentic. We have to choose to be and practice moment by moment...day after day. The more we …
5 Must Read Books for Positive Parenting
Top 5 Positive Parenting Books I recently put together a list of parenting books that I love for a few friends with new babies and one who is expecting and thought I’d share the list here. I never thought I’d have an official declared parenting style however I knew from my teaching experience that I was into positive behaviour discipline and have naturally gravitated towards books and experts advocating this style of parenting. The word discipline often gets mixed up with the word punishment but in fact it comes from the Latin word …
3 WAYS TO HELP YOUR CHILD WITH READING COMPREHENSION
Reading Comprehension Comprehension is at the very core of reading and can be shown when we really understand something. I talk often about how reading WITH our kids helps create meaningful connections and a stronger bond between parents and their children, and I wanted to share with you what making connections when reading means in the classroom. Making literary connections as we read is how we come to better understand a story. It assists us with our comprehension of the events and people in a particular story and how that …