Parent-Teacher Conference Questions
Help With Understanding Homework & Marks! Show of hands for how many parents say to their children “Just Do It” in relation to homework. Show of hands for how many families have controversy at homework time because the kids aren’t “Just Doing It”! To better understand what your child needs to do in order to be successfully completing their homework, …
Lunch Box Blues
Are lunches are a major source of arguments, worry, stress or heartache in your house? Lunch Funnies Friday’s lunch is a collection of all the scraps that my child hasn’t eaten from the last week. My child was jealous about other kids getting notes in their lunches, so I put one in his: “Sorry, I ate your pudding. Love, Mom.” “Kids, do you …
Lifeline — Past Versus Present
It’s important to realize that not to get stuck in the past or caught up in the future; you miss the precious moments that make up our lives! Human nature is unappreciative of what is in the moment as we are conditioned to have attachments to things in the past and to focus on what we desire in the future.
Love of Learning: Math
Math seems to be one of the subjects that children struggle with the most. The Foundational Skills Assessment results for Nanaimo show that a full third of students in Grade 4 and Grade 7 are not yet meeting expectations. The results are similar for the whole of British Columbia. What makes math so challenging? There are several theories, but what …
Love of Learning: Reading
Reading is a challenging subject that many children struggle with. The Foundational Skills Assessment results for Nanaimo show that 35% of students in Grade 4 and 32% of students in Grade 7 are not yet meeting expectations. The results are similar for the whole of British Columbia. What makes reading so difficult? There are several factors such as phonemic awareness …
Love of Learning: Spelling
Spelling tends to be one of those subjects that children are either naturally good at or struggle with. Spelling has become more challenging with the advent of texting and chatting which have developed their own lexicon (gtg, ttyl – got to go, talk to you later) and the heavy reliance on spellcheckers, which might suggest the wrong word depending on …
Love of Learning: Writing
Love of Learning: Writing Winter has arrived on the Island…hope everybody was able to be safe and enjoy it! Where we live it snowed for 3 days straight. I wasn’t able to “write home about it” as my original home is Ontario and I don’t think they would have given me too much sympathy! Our final blog on the “Learning …
School Stops for Summer, Should Learning Stop too?
What is Summer Learning Loss? All students experience learning losses–what educators and researchers refer to as the “summer brain drain”–when they do not engage in educational activities during the summer. Most students lose about two months of grade level equivalency in mathematical computation skills over the summer months. Without practice, students lose reading skills over the summer months too. …