For children to thrive, they need to have a good grounding in who and what they are. When I left home many years ago to go to teacher training college – and again when I graduated and began teaching – I realised that despite my education, I
Read more →A holiday challenge! Here is a brainstorming holiday challenge for small people & their parents!
Read more →Keeping children on track requires effort. Some years ago, I was the teacher of a lovely class of Year 3 children. They worked well together, had a great work ethic and were very nice little people individually, many of whom I remember to this day. Towards the
Read more →Teaching children to listen is very important. Listening – not hearing – is one of the key skills needed for learning but believe it or not, less than 2% of people have had any formal education on how to listen! Children rarely develop good listening skills by
Read more →The first time I asked myself the question ‘What is this child actually learning?’ was over twenty years ago when I was teaching my Year 5 Class about farming in geography. What your child is learning is crucial to their development. The children developed a model farm
Read more →When children don’t want to go to school, it can cause parents a lot of sleepless nights. The anxiety caused can create conflict between exasperated parent and child. There can be any number of reasons for a child becoming disaffected in this way from undiagnosed learning challenge
Read more →Welcome! Welcome to the new Lesson Alive website. Lessons Alive has been gathering momentum over the past 5 years and we thought it would be timely to update the site to accommodate the changes. With the help of Twitter and Facebook, I hope to spread the Lessons
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