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| I have just signed up to Edplace! It’s great I can get Maths worksheets, English worksheets and science worksheets K stage 1 - 4, it’s a great way to improve your kid’s school work! The brilliant thing is you can sign up for free here: http://www.edplace.co.uk/ and then decide if you want to subscribe or not!
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Think very carefully before you go down this route. Do your kids want to spend their time at home doing extra homework?
Do they really need to?
If you want to help them develop their skills fully, spend more time with them sharing activities.
Play board games where they have to use numbers, make words or read questions. Read them lots of stories. Encourage them to read, and listen to them and praise their progress.
No doubt they will be given some homework, so you can take an interest and support what they do.
But worksheets just like they do at school? why?
maya (retired teacher)
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| I'm sure you have the best intentions at heart, wanting the "best" for your child. However, please remember the NUT recently claimed that children are amongst the unhappiest in Europe due to the pressure of testing and the "labels" children become aware of (ie being a "level 2 writer" etc at the age of 6). http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7311863.stm Support and encouragement of school work is great, but family time is far far more valuable. I'm a primary teacher and already feel that too much homework is given to some children. Carefully targetted additional help can be beneficial in some instances - but approach it with caution. Enjoy the learning time - read with your children, turn the garden into an imaginary castle fort and have a battle, make wooden spoon puppets and make a puppet show, go and explore what's growing at the nearest country park, measure out all the ingredients to make a cake and you'll find you've covered maths, literacy, DT, art, geography, history and science at least. I'm sure you already do these kinds of things, but they are not in place of learning - they ARE learning experiences. We learn through living. Children are only in school 17% of their time in a school year - and much of their learning happens in the other 83%. Leave the dull boring worksheets to us in the classroom!
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I think anything we can do to help our children achieve academically is important especially in today's climate. My grandson is starting school in September. He enjoys doing the work books his mother has got for him. He is a football fanatic and already goes to soccer training as it is something he excells at. During the recent Euro 2008 matches he noted down the names of the teams and the scores after each match. 
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So now you get him to help you look up where each team comes from ... in an atlas or encyclopaedia is better than on-line.
Learning how to use an index and also some geography is painless that way and he is learning to interact and jobshare with you. With so many schools having to share textbooks between two or more kids it will help if he is used to the idea of waiting for somone else to be ready to turn the page or look up something they want to check in turns
All year round he can learn geography of Britain just by looking up where each team is playing and where they travelled from.
He can then learn search skills by going on-line to find out how much it would cost a fan to travel to support his/her team away.
...and if he is good at the game then he can sue anyone later who makes him stop practicising to come in to do his homework in order to get qualifications for a "real job".
Bet you can't wait for the World Cup!
Quatenus in hebdomades quattuor et dies duos ire possumus?
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Tedi Worrier (04/07/2008)
So now you get him to help you look up where each team comes from ... in an atlas or encyclopaedia is better than on-line.
Learning how to use an index and also some geography is painless that way and he is learning to interact and jobshare with you. With so many schools having to share textbooks between two or more kids it will help if he is used to the idea of waiting for somone else to be ready to turn the page or look up something they want to check in turns
All year round he can learn geography of Britain just by looking up where each team is playing and where they travelled from.
He can then learn search skills by going on-line to find out how much it would cost a fan to travel to support his/her team away.
...and if he is good at the game then he can sue anyone later who makes him stop practicising to come in to do his homework in order to get qualifications for a "real job".
Bet you can't wait for the World Cup!Tedi I suspect you are being scarcy! Everything can be turned into a learning experience, even footie (which I dislike). Our grandson has had fun finding the various counties represented on the globe.
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The bit about sueing others for being made to do homework instead of honing skills that would have led to earnings beyond the dreams of avarice is, of course, irony.
You can take the rest as genuine advice.
Quatenus in hebdomades quattuor et dies duos ire possumus?
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In these days of I.T. dominence, a useful tool is the Daily Torygraph (or similar) general knowledge crossword plus a search engine to learn internet search skills.
I learned doing trivia quizzes in the old days of Compuserve ... but for the sake of Grannies' blushes, do keep your search filter on when doing Image searches.
e.g. researching "Great Boobs of the 20th Century" might throw up somewhat more than astonishing gaffs ... the internet as a learning tool is a two edged sword unless skillfully wielded with discernment.
Computers, like children, do what you tell them to do, not necessariy what you meant to tell them to do ... this is especially true of programming - but no one needs to learn that these days. There is always a package ready-made for whatever you want to do, if only you can find it.
Does anyone miss the days when you had to write your own to get it to do just what you wanted?
... but even BASIC programming teaches logical step-by-step thinking
Quatenus in hebdomades quattuor et dies duos ire possumus?
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