Literacy, families and learning

In Australia most schools shut down for the end of term 2 break this week, North American schools have closed for summer and British sch...

Craig Smith's Background   Craig Smith is a prolific illustrator who has been amusing and entertaining children for many years. He h...

First the context for this post on play I recently had the opportunity to visit the Imperial War Museum at Duxford near Cambridge in En...

Readers of this blog know how much I like libraries, so when I saw this library I had to share it with you. I'm staying near Little ...

How do we learn to spell? Learning to spell like learning to write has often been surrounded by many misconceptions. It has been misu...

Sam (age 7) holding his 'Swiss Family Robinson' game Imaginative recreation is an essential part of learning. By re-creation I m...

An Introduction for non-Australians   Emily Gap N.T. Indigenous Australians were the original inhabitants of the continent we know ...