As an educator, I often notice 3 types of students:
Students who are confident in one subjects and extremely have low confidence in the other subjects. (Math or English)
Students who are very confident in both subjects but became gutted when they made a mistake.
Students who have low confidence in both maths and English, and in learning generally.
The one thing that I think all these type of students will benefit from is repeating some positive affirmation.
Words have power, and it’s important for our children to believe in themselves ways before anyone else does. Here are some great positive affirmations for your kids to practice daily.
Today’s post is for any parents that have kids in reception.
Children in reception classes are expected to be independent because they have to start learning how to do stuff for themselves in school.
So what can you do as a parent to help your child in reception class?
Encourage them to practice dressing and undressing independently including putting on their own shoes.
Practice using a knife and fork to eat and cut up food.
Teach them how to write their own name.
When outside, point out bus numbers to them and ask them if they can recognise the numbers.
In the shop allow them to count how many things you have in the baskets. If your house have a stair, encourage them to count them with you.
Show them how to hold pencils correctly and practice writing simple phonics sounds like (s,a,t,p) with them.
And don’t forget to teach them manners when speaking with others and practice using this sentence “can I have that please” or “can you help me please” etc
In addition, try and read books with them daily. 10 minutes before bed is enough.
I hope this helps 🥰
I know some of you may be worried about your little angels spending a whole day at school now, please don’t worry they’re are in good hands and they will be fine 😊
Have a wonderful day guys and remain blessed 😊❤️❤️
Happy Tuesday to all my fellow parents. Since the new school year starts in a week’s time, I thought I should share some ways you can support your child at home so they can do well at school. I’m sure that’s what every parent wants for their children.
1. The first thing I will suggest is to read with them. Try to read with your child as often as possible. It’s the best thing you can do to help him or her learn at school! Ask questions about the story they’re reading.
2. HAVE A HOMEWORK ROUTINE
When it comes to homework, focus on process, not outcome. Create a quieter space for design for homework and make it a regular thing and stick with it at the same time. If there’s no homework you can use the time to read with them.
3. A GOOD CONVERSATION: Rather than asking your child what they did at school today, you can by telling them something interesting that happened in your day. When you do this you’re Modeling how to start a conversation with them.
4. ENCOURAGE THEM TO SET GOALS
Being able to set goals, and work toward them at school and in the future. It takes practice for children to learn to set realistic goals but parents can support children by helping them to break down goals into small steps. Asking questions like – “ What could you do today/this week to get a little closer to that goal?”
5. PRAISE EFFORTS AND PROGRESS
We can also encourage positive attitude to learning by focusing our praise on the effort children put it and the progress they make (no matter how small)
Even if they can’t do it yet, if they keep trying they will get better at it.
Boys don’t read as much as girls and that’s a fact. This reading gender gap is affecting boys’ performance in school. (I will talk more on why boys don’t like reading in my subsequent post)
But in this post I’m only going to share some tips on how to get your boys to write by using picture prompt.
Today I’m going to share some ideas on how I help my students to enjoy reading and writing . ✍️
Tips on how to help your child with writing.
✅ Photocopy or cut out a picture from a book ✅ Ask them to have a look at it – Ask the following questions- What can you see? Where at they? Who is the girl? Is she sad or happy and why did you say that? ✅ Then ask them to write a sentence about what they can see.
Practice , Practice and keep practicing this type of activities with them daily and you will see significant improvement before they go back to school (10-20 minutes daily is ok) I hope this helps. Let me know in the comments below if you have any thoughts on this. #writing #reading #boys #brighterbee
School is out for summer but there might still be something for your children to learn. There are a lot of fun things to learn during the summer and lots of great ways to maintain studying during the summer holidays.
So here are some examples of fun things to do with them at home during summer holiday.
Encouraging them to read books, leaflets or even newspapers
Teaching your children how to cook
Getting them into music
Doing spelling games together
Practicing Timetables with them everyday -make it fun. Check out Timestable videos on YouTube
Go to the cinema
When it comes to keeping on top of literacy, your children won’t just learn from books. Films are a great way to learn about narrative and can encourage your children to get creative, either by writing their own stories or writing about the stories they’ve experienced.
Try getting your children to write about their favourite scene from the film you took them to see, or rewrite a scene the way they would do it. You could even ask them to write a review of the film, which is a good way to work on both their writing skills and their analytical skills, which is very useful for essay writing.
Not only can the skills you teach children over summer be useful in their everyday lives, both in school and beyond, they can actually help them put the academic skills into practice. For example, cooking can help with maths.
Remember that children don’t have to stop learning because they’re on holiday.
Now that children are home for summer holiday and we are all cooped together as a family at home. I thought I should share some tips about how to get your child to listen and the strategies you can use daily, to avoid power struggle.
As a parent, it can be really frustrating when your child appears not to be listening, or worse yet, seems to outright ignore you.
You may wonder what you’re doing wrong or if your child is particularly rebellious.
But the truth is there are a number of reasons why kids don’t listen, including they just haven’t developed this skill yet.
So here are the top 4 tips to get your child to listen.
1. The first thing to get your child’s attention is by making eye contact when speaking to your child. Getting close to look at your child helps you get his full attention.
Many of the parents that I talked to have good heart , they just want their children to be happy and they just want their children to like them and respect them. However, many of us are going about it the wrong way. Some parents make the mistake of thinking that if you let a child have what he wants, he will be happy. They think that if you give a child a lot of things, the child will be grateful and will respect the parent for providing such great stuff. They believe that if they let the child have a lot of space, the child will look at them as being “the good guy,” and they believe that if they set limits that make the child unhappy, the child will view them as “the bad guy.” Unfortunately, all of those thinking are wrong.
Raising teens who are responsible, considerate and shows good judgment at least most of the time 😃 is possible!
And it all depends on how you parent them from them start. Because we are our children’s first teacher.
Children are copycats!
They’re like little sponges that soaks up everything they see adults do! So that’s why we must be careful with how we behave around them!
Sometimes you may not feel like you have much influence on your child these days, but trust me you do!
However, for your teenagers to be able to talk to you about their worries and trust you, you may need to build a close relationship with them when they are 8, not when they are 18.
We can’t blame a teenager for not knowing how to speak or behave outside or doing unspeakable things outside when no one taught him how to be responsible when he was 8.
Hitting and shouting at them won’t work either. Let’s be intentional about how we parents these kids.
How they turn out to be tomorrow lies in your hand!
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