LEARNING & MILESTONES
Keep track of your child’s learning and find out what milestones you can expect at the different ages.
How To Introduce Your Child Into A New Sport
We all want to encourage our children to be physically active but starting a new sport for a child can ...
Tips For Preparing Your Child For Their First Day Of School
You have chosen the school your child is going to attend, and a starting date, and the countdown is on ...
12 Tips For a Better School Year
Making the school year run smoothly for your children, and for yourself, is easy with these quick tips from Kidspot ...
Why I Still Love Toy Story
The Toy Story movies are not just cinematic genius. They also represent an important connection that I share with my ...
Mum, Come and Play!
Playing with your child is important for their development and also to aid in building strong bonds between you ...
Learning To Ride A Bike
Learning to ride a bike can be difficult, painful and sometimes bloody! Learn tips and tricks for helping kids learn ...
Choosing A Performing Arts Class For Your Child
Do you have a little singing, acting or musical star? Learn how to pick drama, music or singing lessons and ...
Music lessons for kids
Music lessons can aid the educational development of a child but Kidspot reveals the best time to start learning a ...
The bittersweet milestones keep coming
When my youngest turned five recently, I thought that her first day at school would be one of the hardest ...
Mastering the pen grip
Teaching kids how to write and grip a pen correctly is easy with these tips from Kidspot ...
Preschool spelling milestones
Spelling bees are a fun way to help your child learn spelling skills and Kidspot helps explains age appropriate spelling ...
Best online learning websites for pre-school
Help your toddler learn through play with these educational websites for ages 3 to 5 ...
Science experiments: 9 – 10
Children learn at an individual pace, in their own time. At this developmental age sees a step up in scientific ...
Science skills for kids: 11 – 12 years
Children learn at an individual pace, in their own time. At this developmental age new skills are not being learned ...
Teaching your child to tie their laces
Learning to tie your own shoe laces is a tricky fine motor skill for children, but with patience parents can ...
Improve handwriting: dot-to-dot worksheets
Dot-to-dots are a great fun, educational exercise. Completing a dot-to-dot has many benefits. Read on to find out more ...
Handwriting milestones for preschoolers
Discover the handwriting milestones and printable sheets your child needs as they develop their cursive and print handwriting skills ...
Dolch sight words
Dolch sight words are a list of 220 commonly used words that children encounter and can be used to teach ...
Literacy milestones 7-8
Your children need all the encouragement you can give to help them develop into strong readers who love to read! ...
Speech and language development 11-12 years
Speech and language development varies in children but these development milestones explain what children 11-12 should know ...
Spell Cover Write Check
Look-say-cover-write-check is a great way to turn learning spelling words in to a game ...
Spelling bee words 9-10
Spelling bee words for kids aged 9 to 10 are a great way to play learning games that improve literacy, ...
Spelling milestones 7-8 Years
When your child reaches the age of 8 there can be a shift in the emphasis placed on spelling - ...
Handwriting milestones 7-8 years
Discover the handwriting milestones your 7 to 8 year old reaches as they develop their cursive and print handwriting skills ...
Literacy milestones 11-12
Pre-teens still need all your encouragement to be readers often at this age reading is replaced by alternate activities and ...
Is your child gifted and talented?
Defining and identifying gifted and talented children can be difficult but if you think that could be your child, what ...
More Dolch sight words
Dolch sight words are a list of 220 commonly used words that children encounter and can be used to teach ...
Spelling bee words 7-8
Spelling bee words for kids aged 7 to 8 are a great way to play learning games that improve literacy, ...
Multiplication Facts & Learning Games
Multiplication facts, worksheets and games can help children learn mathematical concepts ...
Learning styles in children
Children have different ways of learning which the education experts have roughly grouped into three basic styles - auditory, visual ...
Spelling bee words 5-6
Spelling bee words for kids aged 5 to 6 are a great way to play learning games that improve literacy, ...
Handwriting milestones 11-12 years
Handwriting continues to develop and children are probably beginning to develop their own style now ...
Spelling milestones 5-6 years
There are several important spelling milestones that a 5-6 year old child will pass through on the journey to becoming ...
Speech and language development 9-10 years
Speech and language development varies in children but these development milestones explain what children aged 9 to 10 years should ...
Helping Your 5-6 Year Old Child Learn To Read
With a reader coming home in the school bag each day, many parents feel ill-equipped to help their child on ...
Addition Facts & Learning Games
Addition worksheets and games can help children learn mathematical concepts of adding up - and so can these great tips ...
Literacy milestones 5-6
Children of five to six years of age are learning all about reading. Here are some of the many ways ...
Handwriting milestones 5-6 years
Your 5 to 6 year will be starting to develop their cursive and print handwriting skills ...
Mathematics milestones for 9 to 10 year olds.
Children of 9 to 10 years are continuing to develop their knowledge or numbers and learning new skills ...
Science experiments for kids
Kids love nothing more than experimenting and discovering what the world's all about. Kidspot have the coolest science experiments to ...
Literacy milestones 9-10
Children in the middle primary school levels are developing into independent readers. Here's how you can help them learn to ...
How to teach division
Division is a mathematical concept which can be taught with these concepts, games and worksheet tips ...
Spelling milestones 9-10 years
Children around 9 to 10 years are moving from the phonetic (how words sound) method of spelling into the transitional ...
Improve handwriting with printable mazes
Improve your child's handwriting skills using printable maze worksheets ...
How to tell the time
Learning how to tell time and read a traditional clock is not always easy so here are some tips for ...
How to run a spelling bee
Spelling bees are a fun learning game you can organise at home to improve your school aged child's spelling skills ...
Kinaesthetic learning style in children
A kinaesthetic learner likes to be actively involved in the learning process, and learn best through hands-on activities and movement ...
Visual learning style in children
A child's learning styles can vary - find out what a visual learner needs to learn effectively ...
Handwriting milestones 9-10 years
Discover the handwriting milestones as your 9 to 10 year old develops their cursive and print handwriting skills ...
Mathematics milestones 5-6
Developmental milestones for school aged children in mathematics help parents learn math, fractions and other skills their kids need ...
Tips for encouraging reading
Find ways to help your child develop a lifelong love of reading. Here are some simple ideas help kids love ...
Spelling milestones 11-12 years
Spelling bees are a fun way to help your child learn spelling skills and Kidspot helps explains age appropriate spelling ...
Spelling bee words 11-12 years
Spelling bee words for kids aged 11-12 are a great way to play learning games that improve literacy, reading and ...
List of 1000 most commonly used words
First published in 1915, the Ayres spelling list contains 1,000 of the most commonly used words ...
Learning difficulties
Every child is capable of learning and each child learns in a different way so it is important that each ...
Mathematics milestones for 11 to 12 year olds.
As they lead up to High School, 11 to 12 year olds are consolidating math skills and learning new concepts ...
