Reading Club

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How cute is this video from one of my students? 🥰 He’s now in Prep but has been coming to Reading Club since he was 3 years old. He is using these homemade puppets to play out scenes from our key pre-primary resource – ‘Milo’s Birthday Surprise’.🐵This fun storybook 📖 introduces children to the sounds and letters of the alphabet, giving them the basics towards learning to read. Sounds and letters are introduced systematically following the sequence of the Little Learners Love Literacy Group® program. What this video proves, is how our program works. Through the interesting story, characters are introduced who become mnemonics (a system for improving and assisting the memory) to read and spell. 📚 Along with this video, Mum and Dad also shared with me, that when writing 📝, Mr. 5 still connects his sounds to his Milo Monkey friends (e.g. "w" Wilbur Whale “w”). This is age appropriate ✅ and as his knowledge and confidence grows, he soon will be able to say goodbye to his Milo Monkey spelling aids.👏 This guy is going leaps and bounds with his reading and writing at Prep, giving him headspace and confidence to focus on the social and systemic aspects of learning to be at school.💪🏼 I’m so proud to have nurtured and fostered his early years literacy education. 💗 And of course thrilled to receive this super cute video clip!

😀 And we're back! ✅ It was so great to reconnect with my returning families and welcome some new families on board! 🥰

How was your first week back at school?👇
❤️ = Great!
👍 = OK
😢 = We're going to start fresh on Monday...

It’s been a BIG year at Reading Club! 🙌🏼

🙏🏼 Thank you to my awesome team for helping me bring so many beautiful families literacy and numeracy support.📚🧮

🙏🏼 And thank you to my families, for trusting me and working with me to build your little ones’ confidence and love for learning. It has been an absolute pleasure. 🥰

🎄 Merry Christmas! 🎄

5 Days to go! 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄

One last activity to get you across the line to Christmas 🎅

Irresistible colour by numbers activities with a Christmas twist!

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Develops number recognition, hand strengthening, fine motor skills, and colour palette awareness! 🙌

Some more Christmas fun to engage your little ones in some secret literacy practice!

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Did you see this heart breaking article, Why boys are falling behind at school? 💔

It doesn’t have to be this way! 😤 There is scientific evidence which shows, if we systematically and explicitly teach our children (especially boys) literacy with phonemic instruction, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension they will develop strong literacy skills for life.

You can read more about this at our website. 🤓

Or better still, secure your child’s place at Reading Club for term 1, 2023. Places are filling fast so don’t miss your chance to set your child on the evidence based path to success.

Why boys are falling behind at school The brain development of boys is different to girls – and the difference has an impact on their performance in the classroom.

🎄🎄🎄 Yes, the festive season is certainly upon us 🎄🎄🎄

Take up the opportunity to slip in some incidental literacy and numeracy learning practice. I promise, the kids will hardly notice they are learning! 😜 🤫

Keep an eye on our page - we'll be dropping some fun worksheets for you to download and print to keep the kids busy when you need some quiet time. Here's one to start you off!

I have so many discussions, all throughout the year, but especially around now with parents making the challenging decision about whether to send their precious little person off to school next year – both boys and girls. For those of you in two minds, this article by Maggie Dent may help you make a decision either way. Although the article focuses on boys, we believe it is absolutely relevant to girls also.

Does your child need more time before starting school?

She writes “I strongly advocate that you seriously consider delaying the start of formal schooling an extra year if you have the slightest concern about your son’s readiness.”

And as always, I am happy to help you nut it out. Sometimes talking it through with an impartial ear can help you make sense of all those thoughts running through your head!

Does your son need more time before he starts school? - Maggie Dent An extract from Maggie’s new book, Mothering Our Boys, on making the decision about whether to send your son to school or give him more time. Relax if your son ...

There’s nothing like curling up with you kids and exploring a beautiful new book! 💝

Have you read any of these? Do you have any other favourites?

10 Books Every Child Needs On Their Bookshelf The next generation of children’s books guaranteed to keep even the busiest tiny tot occupied.