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kindergarten
9 articles on kindergarten, newest first.
What to Look For in a Learning App for a Five-Year-OldMost apps for this age are built to be opened again, not to teach. The difference is visible in about two minutes if you know where to look. Seven things to check, and the reason behind each one.Read the article →
One Account, Three Children: Homeschooling Siblings at Different StagesA Kindergartener, a Class 4 child and a Class 9 student in one house need three completely different mornings. How one yearly plan carries all three, each with their own class, dashboard and PIN, and siblings at half price.Read the article →
A Parent's Guide to the Kindergarten-to-A-Level JourneyWhat your job is at each stage, and (more usefully) what it stops being. The commonest mistake is running stage two parenting during stage five.Read the article →
Kindergarten to A Level: The Whole Road, MappedEleven or more years of school, and the thing that has to change at each stage is not how hard a student works but what "studying" actually means. Here is the whole progression in one place.Read the article →
Printable Tracing Worksheets: How to Use Them So They Actually WorkA worksheet is a tool, not a lesson. Handed over with a pencil it teaches very little; used for four minutes in the right way it is the most valuable part of the day.Read the article →
Kindergarten at Home: A Realistic Week for a Two to Six-Year-OldNot a curriculum. A week of ten-minute sessions that covers letters, numbers, shapes and thinking, designed around the attention span a small child actually has.Read the article →
Counting to 20: Why Reciting Numbers Is Not the Same as CountingPlenty of three-year-olds can chant to twenty. Ask them to hand you four biscuits and many will hand you a fistful. The gap between those two things is the whole of early number sense.Read the article →
What Comes Next? Patterns Are One of the Strongest Early Predictors of MathsRed, blue, red, blue, … A child who can finish that row is doing something research has repeatedly linked to their mathematics achievement years later. Here is why, and how to practise it.Read the article →
Letter Formation: Why the "a" in Most Learning Apps Is the Wrong ShapeAlmost every app shows children a two-storey "a", the one you are reading now. Almost no school teaches children to write it. Here is why that mismatch matters and what to look for instead.Read the article →Related topics