HeadStart Learning Centre in Bundaberg, Queensland | Tutor/teacher

HeadStart Learning Centre

Locality: Bundaberg, Queensland

Phone: +61 7 4152 5474

Address: 31 Maryborough St Shop 5 4670 Bundaberg, QLD, Australia

Website: http://tutoringbundaberg.com.au/

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23.01.2022 Untamed parenting is teaching (more importantly: modeling) that feeling deeply and expressing those feelings honestly IS brave. Letting your heart be seen IS br...ave. If you are sad or angry -- that’s because you’re paying attention. Sensitivity is a superpower. The opposite of sensitive is not brave! The opposite of sensitive is insensitive. No Medal of Honor. KNOW THIS and make sure your kids know this. Make sure your boys know. The world is taming them -- insisting they hide their humanity -- and it’s hurting them and all of us. Brave and Soft. Fire and Water. Strong and Weak. Loud and silent. We can be everything. We ARE everything. Don’t tame kids into cages of femininity or masculinity- let them be human and whole and free. Love, G Thank you, Parenting Works for this artful addition to Gina & Mercer Mayer’s children’s book Just Lost

19.01.2022 Building forest space in playgrounds can boost children's immune system

17.01.2022 In the last decade, schools and districts have pressed for more and more "sight words" be learned by even our youngest students. With this pressure, a lot... of beginning reading instruction has led with an emphasis on visual-only approaches to learning to read these words. Sadly, this approach is destined to fail over 50% of our students: these are the kids who don't yet GET how our written language works. They don't GET the alphabetic principle. They don't GET how sounds and symbols line up. As a result, these words don't really STICK. Worse still, many students begin their reading journey having learned a poor strategy. We can even see via brain scans how the poor readers' brains don't use the parts of the brain that good readers do. Good readers, in contrast, have tight, fast brain connections among each sound and symbol in words. Our role in guiding young readers should be in establishing these sound-symbol connections. THUS, we advise teachers and parents NOT to first start with a sight word emphasis until at least the early stage of understanding of and skill in the sound-based decoding is established.

16.01.2022 Last lessons for the year on Friday 27 November.

16.01.2022 We've been making Christmas cards. Stunning artwork and super sentences.

12.01.2022 Continuing the path of word origins, English is RICH in words derived from Latin. Consider these prefixes: am- (love, amorous), anima- (breath, animate), be...ll- (war, belligerent), cand- (glowing, candle), dict- (speak, dictate), err- (stray, errant), fet- (stink, fetid), fort- (strong, fortify), furt- (steal, furtive), hibern- (winter, hibernate), host- (enemy, hostile), leni- (gentle, lenient), lun- (moon, lunatic), manu- (hand, manual), mot- (move, motor), pot- (drink, potable), san- (healthy, sanity), serp- (creep, serpent), test- (witness, testimony). My favorite, of course, is capit- (head, captain)! See more

09.01.2022 Check out the proactive mission of #ReachEveryReader: https://reacheveryreader.gse.harvard.edu

07.01.2022 What is Systematic Synthetic Phonics? Why is it called that weird 'plastic'-sounding name? This weird name includes the main elements of a good phonics program...me. 1. SYSTEMATIC: the Alphabetic Code is complex. We need to teach it with a coherent structure, scope and sequence, from simple to complex. Phonics can't be taught just incidentally or as part of other approaches as this will not create the scaffolding needed to teach all children to read. 2. SYNTHETIC: this refers to the reading strategies we teach. We don't teach mixed methods, looking for cues which are not in the text. The strategy is to sound out all the graphemes in the word and to synthesize (blend) them into a word. This is where that weird word 'synthetic' comes from. Unlike Analytic Phonics, Synthetic Phonics is a bottom up method starting from phonemes (individual sounds in a word) building up to the whole word. 3. PHONICS: The Alphabetic Code and Alphabetic principle is at the heart of this approach. We teach the sound/letter correspondences so that a child can read ANY word including multi-syllabic words.

06.01.2022 Please see the context for the quote below: https://fb.watch/1L-2fTdvqV/

04.01.2022 Worth reading....

01.01.2022 Great news! Let's be next Queensland.