It’s the winter holidays, and we all want to be snuggled inside where it’s nice and warm. Even the kids can only run around outside in the cold for so long, but staying indoors for too long makes them a bit stir crazy. Here are some fun winter-themed craft activities to keep their little hands and minds busy.
Painted rocks are such a great activity for children to do. Building confidence and self-esteem through fun activities is a great way to encourage positive mindsets.
Providing your students with lists of past and present tense forms and asking them to match them up is helpful. If that seems a bit boring, you can use cards and variations of the game ‘Memory’ where the past and present tense of a word make a pair.
3D shapes are best experienced in three dimensions. This is especially true for younger children who struggle to relate 2D drawings to the 3D objects they represent. To make learning about 3D shapes a bit more fun, we’ve found some fun 3D shape craft activities for you to share with your kids.
Hands-on learning is one of the most effective ways to keep children engaged in the learning process. This is true for children of all ages but is especially relevant for young children. This is why excursions are an excellent way to enrich the learning experience. Regardless of the age of your students, or what subject you teach, there is a way to get them out of the classroom and learning.
Home-schooling your kids is not an endeavour to be taken lightly. It is a time and resource intensive process that can get overwhelming at times. Educating children outside of the structure and support of a school environment allows for more flexibility but also requires strict organisation.
Glue is a staple of every craft supply collection. It is used in just about every project under the sun. To say thanks for its many years of faithful service, we thought we’d share some project where glue is the star.
While we have always taught history in school; we don’t often explain the history of school itself. Examining the rocky road that Queensland schools took to get where they are today really makes you appreciate the educators of the past. It also makes me look to the future with excitement to see what comes next.
Procrastination has become something of a curse word and art-form in the modern teacher. We have something important that needs to be done and yet, somehow, we find ourselves doing a string of other things instead. Sound familiar? The idea that we’re not working on the “big” projects is seen as a negative. We’re procrastinating, so that must be a bad thing, right? You may be surprised to learn that there are benefits to this practice, some of which you’ll find below.
Rita Pierson, a teacher for 40 years, once heard a colleague say, “They don’t pay me to like the kids.” Her response: “Kids don’t learn from people they don’t like.'” A rousing call to educators to believe in their students and actually connect with them on a real, human, personal level.