01st Jul 2018

FLAiR – Instilling a pre-disposition towards Reading

Besides making Samuel a reader for the past 8 years, I had spent the past two years working as a Pro-FLAiR (Focused Language Assistance in Reading), under AECES (Association for...

12th Jan 2018

Can you read for me?

I love my kids, but I also love to read. One thing which I missed after I became a mother was my days of doing nothing but read. So one...

22nd May 2015

The 8 things I learnt about teaching a child to read, write and do maths

I have been teaching Samuel to read/spell/write/do maths for more than 5 years. These are some things which I have learnt and found useful – tried and tested! 1. The...

29th Jan 2013

A different sort of P1

I have been reading posts from other blogger mothers whose children started Primary one this year.  There were happy stories about visits to the bookshops, and heart-wrenching ones about children...