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8 Ways to help your children respect other cultures

by Catherine
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The following post is by contributor Catherine Way of Adventures With Kids. What is your child’s favourite food?  One of my son’s favourite things to eat is Vegemite toast.  What sports do your children like to play or watch on TV?  My sons love to play footy in the backyard and watch the AFL (Australian [...]

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Rainy days and Mondays

by Kara
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The following post is by editor Kara Fleck. I don’t know what this time of year has looked like so far in your neck of the woods, but where we live Spring has been teasing us.  One week we’ll have gorgeous, sunny, blue skies with warm temperatures and the next week the skies will open [...]

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Playing with words: poetry projects for kids

by AmyA
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The following is by contributor Amy Anderson of Let’s Explore. Happy National Poetry Month! From rhyming lines to haiku to free verse, I love sharing poetry with my daughters. We think of poems as paintings made with words, and they are a wonderful way for kids to use their boundless imaginations. While we love reading [...]

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Literacy skills: practicing without practice

by Robin
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The following post is by contributor Robin Zipporah of Not-Ever-Still. My sweet kindergarten girl is a beginning reader. She can read almost anything, slowly, as long as she doesn’t get frustrated or lose patience. Her handwriting is the same – it’s quite good, really, but sometimes when she’s tired or hurrying she still transposes those [...]

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Let’s Talk: Gardening with Kids, What Will You Grow this Year?

by Kara
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The following post is by editor Kara Fleck. This Spring we’ve been talking a lot about gardens and green things growing.  Last week I ran a post about creating garden spaces for your children by contributor Catherine Way.  This week I’d like to ask what are you and your kids are growing in your garden [...]

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