Education : Home Schooling

Creativity is the wealth of tomorrow. Developing laterality in approach to issues is exciting, challenging and critical, learning. World renowned Edward De Bono's concept of 'Thinking Hats' has proven itself to be an excellent way to ensure that students consider problems and issues from different perspectives; 'actively thinking'. This very successful 3 book series uses Edward De Bono's six thinking hats - yellow for optimism, green for creativity, blue for the overall picture, black for negative, red for emotions - to tease out issues. The 40 lessons per book span science, drama, visual art, music, health, social science, english, technology and mathematics to practise using thinking hats in many contexts. more...

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Photocopy Master Book. Math problems arranged according to how long they should take to solve ? 5, 10, and 15 minutes. Each section of the book explains how a strategy is used and provides examples to show application to various types of problems. The strategies include: guess and check, listing, find a pattern, working backwards, and create a diagram. more...

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Teaching basic language skills is an important educational priority. This blackline master activity book provides instruction and consolidation in basic English skills in a down-to-earth, practical way. more...

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Stimulating science and health themed activities for Grade 1-3 students. This photocopy masters book explores the types of clothes people wear in a variety of roles, occupations and environments. The topic covers materials, safety wear, fashion, footwear and personal clothing choices. It also incorporates opportunities for students to develop design ideas with clothing. more...

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Developing Reading Confidence – Book 2. An important part of the role of developing and reinforcing early reading skills is to ensure that students clock up lots of reading mileage – do a lot of reading to practice the skills over and over again just like a sports person. Rhyme is a great way to achieve this with young readers. Rhymes provide a contextual and rhythmic support structure to the text and as children get to know and love poems they naturally enjoy reading them over and over again. Developing Reading Confidence – Book 2 is the first in a series of 2 books each with 30 delightful rhymes covering a mix of poem types, topics and interest areas. The rhymes can be used to develop a broader language base and can be used with a theme study or specifically as a supplement to a reading program to give reading practice. For each poem there are clear teacher instruction notes, which give ideas on how the poem can be introduced and extending the skills and language of the children as they read and enjoy. more...

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