Circle Time Activities are usually assumed to be for preschoolers but you can adopt it as part of your home activities / games to keep your kids busy this period.
Even the older kids enjoy it too. It is indeed a special fun time for everyone.
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Schooling at home during lockdown has become part of the new normal. For some months now, most school children have been mandated by government to stay at home. This is as a result of the recent covid19 pandemic ravaging the whole world.
Most parents have found themselves in the dilemma of keeping their school children busy. This is not easy in anyway as no one planned for this. Adjusting to this new situtaion of children schooling at home is very important for both patents and their children’s wellbeing.
If you are a work from home parent, you will agree with me that it is pretty much difficult keeping the children calm while trying to achieve your work goals.
Most of our kids are used to school settings, finding themselves schooling at home looks odd. How can we help these children enjoy schooling at home during lockdown?
There are 5 basic things every parent should do help their children enjoy schooling at home during the lockdown
(more…)Children and youth aged 5-17 should accumulate at least 60 minutes of moderate – to vigorous-intensity physical activity daily.
Ideally everyone believes working from home is less stressful as it eliminates a lot of inconveniences like the time and energy spent
on commuting to and fro work.
Our family activity schedule for the year was already full, when you have a house filled with active people – what do you expect? With the kids suggesting a thousand and one vacation locations for the year. Everyone loves vacations….except you dont, I do. While I was thinking of a Read more…
At what age should your child start writing?
This is one of those questions that almost every parent is looking for answers to.
Bisi and Biodun were married for 8 years before having their only child Bayo.
Bayo is now 4 – years old and already in Nursery One.
Sometimes the pre- school system is so crazy that a child might have attended school for close to 4 years before eventually starting basic One.
One day Mrs Olisa, Bayo’s new class teacher called BIsi to complain of Bayo’s inability to write like other children in her class.
Cecilia was trying to finish typing her report on the laptop and send it to her boss before her deadline expired. Beside her was Bobo, her two-year old son crying and demanding Cecilia’s Samsung phone to play with. The woman didn’t want ‘disturbance’, so she gave her phone to Bobo.
Minutes later, she heard a smashing noise; Bobo had hit the phone on the tiles. The screen shattered.
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Steve was in the staff room when he was called by the headmistress. The English teacher for primary three class wasn’t in school because she was sick, so Steve was asked to teach the pupils English for that day.
It wasn’t a difficult task; Steve was a primary five English teacher, so he simply needed to see the lesson note to know what to teach. When he checked, the topic for the day was composition.
“Write a composition on the topic, My Family,” Steve instructed the pupils after he had finished teaching.
“You have twenty minutes,” He said and sat down watching the pupils.
(more…)Child’s Natural Intelligence:
Dr. Agbokoba had taken his only daughter, Chika, on sight-seeing to the House of Assembly complex in the state. It was a regular practice for him to take her out on such activity. Sometimes Mrs. Agbokoba joined them; sometimes she was too busy, just like on this occasion.
Chika had applied for admission in one of the biggest private senior secondary schools in the land, and according to the rule, the three best candidates would be given scholarships. Chika had passed all the stages of test; she was getting ready for the final stage in few days’ time.
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