Today I have a guest post from Joanne Mallon, who’s book, Toddlers: An instruction manual has recently been published by Nell James Publishers (also available on Kindle). Joanne is a freelance parenting journalist, a life and career coach and a parent of two. The book offers parenting tips from parents …
Today, we’re very lucky to be part of another Walker Books Picture Book Picnic blog tour. This time, it’s the turn of Chris Haughton, who is promoting his brand new book Oh No, George! George is a dog who wants to be good. He wants to please his owner and …
I was reading The Tickety Tale Teller to LaLa last night and it always gives me a warm glowing feeling, because at its centre are reading and books and being read to and how wonderful these all are. Then I wondered what other children’s books there are about reading and …
I’ve been experimenting a lot with non-wheat flours*, especially low-GI ones, lately. I love baking. And I love eating cake. And, frankly, I think it should be possible to do these things without any adverse effect on the whole losing weight and getting healthier plan. At first, I thought I …
It’s been a month now since I stopped breastfeeding LaLa. And I thought I’d write an update on how it’s gone, for my benefit and for anyone who’s thinking about stopping themselves. It has gone extraordinarily well, actually. For the first few days she did keep asking for dot dot. …
We’ve had some sunny spring weather recently, which has had Chris and I craving salads, rather than the warming casseroles of the autumn and winter months. We can quite happily sit down to a simple meal of salad leaves, cheeses and lovely fresh bread (with some cold meats thrown in …
Disclosure: This post contains paid links. We’ve never really done Mother’s Day in my family. And I’m pretty sure my mum is happy about this fact (Jenny? Now’s the time to own up!). I’m not entirely sure why, though think it probably has something to do with the commercialisation, though …
I’m reading The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe to RoRo at the moment. Contrary to our normal rules (for most books that have been made into films, we insist on reading the book first – yes, we’re meanies, but it’s so much better that way, isn’t it?), she has …
My Phonics Kit is a pack from Oxford University Press for parents to help their children with phonics and which ties into the new Year 1 Phonics Test (see last week’s Sunday Reading post for my concerns about the test). My Phonics Kit contains three workbooks (Kipper’s Phonics Workbook, Chip’s Phonics …
The Year 1 phonics screening check will see children reading 40 words to their teacher to test their grasp on phonics.
