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I am a huge supporter of teaching children through play. During play the mind is comfortable and open to new stimulus so it is not surprising that children learn more when they are relaxed. That’s why educators use a playful method in early learning. Looking at my son’s schoolwork it is evident how teaching systems [...]

Another classic Dr. Seuss book makes it to the App Store. It is the turn of The Lorax, first published in 1971 and turned into eBook to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Earth Day coming up on Thursday 22nd of April. Oceanhouse Media has launched Dr. Seuss classic environmental children story The Lorax in three [...]

Dr Seuss’ books have helped generations of kids to learn how to read with a simple technique based on repetitions of the primary words written in catching rhymes that are easy to remember. It works well, kids love the classic Dr Seuss’ stories and parents approve so it is not surprising that Dr Seuss has [...]

There is no substitute for peer motivation. I have been trying to no avail to get my son to speak English and I know he could if he wanted to because he understands everything perfectly, but he insisted in answering in Italian until a few weeks ago. In the past he only made exceptions if the [...]

When our son was born we moved from London to Sardinia for what was supposed to be only a few years, but six years later we are still here and our son is starting school next week. The school system in Italy is slightly different in structure from the UK but the curriculum is similar. [...]

I found the perfect gift on Etsy for kids learning to spell, these stuffed felt alphabet letters handmade by MiChiMa are ideal to play all kind of spelling games to improve your kids’ written language abilities. The letters are available in upper or lower case, each set contains 62 colourful letters including 2 complete alphabet [...]

We recently finished reading Luca’s first long story book, The BFG by Roald Dahl and it was a success. At first I was unsure as I thought it might be a little too early to tackle 200 pages as 5 year olds loose interest very quickly, instead it was fun to wait for the next [...]