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A facility with number is critical to everyday life. We all have to be able to add quickly, to determine whether our change is correct, whether the restaurant has added up properly, what is ten percent? Unfortunately, it seems to be acceptable to say that we can’t manage number although it would be seriously embarrassing to say we were illiterate. Some children find number work very easy and good fun, others do not. These are games for a range of child ages and abilities. As always, if you imply that these are good fun, the children will be tempted to join in - if you suggest that this is compulsory and tedious, they will resent the work even more. A lot of these activities can be done with children of different ages. Read More... Memory is critical to all sorts of learning. We need to recall ideas, sounds, pictures, smells. Everyone can remember a smell that instantly takes you back to your grandmother's kitchen, the smell of your father, the smell of arriving at your favourite holiday place. Read More... When children are learning to read, anything that helps sustain their enthusiasm is good. Children learn in many different ways, some learn by listening to sounds, others look at word shapes, still others try to make out the sense of a story. Children have problems in different areas too. These games will help develop auditory skills, they will help the child to listen to words and sounds because this is the start of being able to read and spell them. They can be played by groups of different ages, and can be played with an adult present as this always makes learning more special. Using letter sounds rather than letter names is usually a good idea to help the child sound out a word. Thus B is said B [as in bread], T is T [as in toffee] etc. Read More... So many children have after-school activities, Games Consoles, friends to visit and homework to do that many traditional activities have been almost forgotten. Long summer holidays are the perfect time to resurrect family activities so that children can spend some time doing stuff together before going off to play in another garden or fight with their friends. All these activities can be adapted for children of different ages, not only are brothers and sisters often at very different stages of development, but individual children often like to play at being older or younger for a while. There are no Right Ages for playing. Read More... Read More...