One of the things I try and stock up on for the longer school holidays is books for Anya. I mix it up with some new books as well as pull out old books that she hasn’t looked at for a while. This is exactly what I did before the long Easter/Spring break. I always try and include a few different types of books to keep her interested so I’ll maybe include a puzzle book, a story book and a joke book or a fact book.
Recently, I was so excited to discover this gem of a book. While Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a book we’re all very familiar with, it was finding this (fairly) rare edition that got me so excited. One look at this book and I knew it had to be added to our shelves.
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Anna Hibiscus lives in Africa, amazing Africa… so the first story begins and many of the stories that come after.
As it’s World Book Day this week, I wanted to start the week with a book series we are loving. We are slowly moving on from picture books, so I am always looking for interesting chapter books that still have pictures and quite big text. We recently discovered the Anna Hibiscus series of books and they are a breath of fresh air.
Hands up, who is maths phobic? It turns out that a lot of us parents are and that we can unintentionally pass on this math phobia to our kids.
We tend to place a lot of emphasis on language and reading. Every parent I know reads to their kids at bedtime and usually started when their kids were babies. But why not the same importance for maths? If I had to choose between the two, I would say that maths is a more important skill to understand and feel confident about. I’ve read a lot recently about this and it really resonated with me. Up till now Anya has loved and enjoyed maths but recently she started struggling with the concept of division and I started hearing phrases like ‘I can’t do it’ and ‘I just don’t understand’. That’s when I went hunting for a maths book for kids to help make maths more fun for her.
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