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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Mum, Come and Play!
Playing with your child is important for their development and also to aid in building strong bonds between you ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Music lessons for kids
Music lessons can aid the educational development of a child but Kidspot reveals the best time to start learning a ...
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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 ...
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Mastering the pen grip
Teaching kids how to write and grip a pen correctly is easy with these tips from Kidspot ...
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Preschool spelling milestones
Spelling bees are a fun way to help your child learn spelling skills and Kidspot helps explains age appropriate spelling ...
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Best online learning websites for pre-school
Help your toddler learn through play with these educational websites for ages 3 to 5 ...
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Science experiments: 9 – 10
Children learn at an individual pace, in their own time. At this developmental age sees a step up in scientific ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Handwriting milestones for preschoolers
Discover the handwriting milestones and printable sheets your child needs as they develop their cursive and print handwriting skills ...
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Dolch sight words
Dolch sight words are a list of 220 commonly used words that children encounter and can be used to teach ...
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Literacy milestones 7-8
Your children need all the encouragement you can give to help them develop into strong readers who love to read! ...
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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 ...
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Spell Cover Write Check
Look-say-cover-write-check is a great way to turn learning spelling words in to a game ...
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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, ...
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Spelling milestones 7-8 Years
When your child reaches the age of 8 there can be a shift in the emphasis placed on spelling - ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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More Dolch sight words
Dolch sight words are a list of 220 commonly used words that children encounter and can be used to teach ...
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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, ...
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Multiplication Facts & Learning Games
Multiplication facts, worksheets and games can help children learn mathematical concepts ...
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Learning styles in children
Children have different ways of learning which the education experts have roughly grouped into three basic styles - auditory, visual ...
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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, ...
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Handwriting milestones 11-12 years
Handwriting continues to develop and children are probably beginning to develop their own style now ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Addition Facts & Learning Games
Addition worksheets and games can help children learn mathematical concepts of adding up - and so can these great tips ...
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Literacy milestones 5-6
Children of five to six years of age are learning all about reading. Here are some of the many ways ...
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Handwriting milestones 5-6 years
Your 5 to 6 year will be starting to develop their cursive and print handwriting skills ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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How to teach division
Division is a mathematical concept which can be taught with these concepts, games and worksheet tips ...
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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 ...
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Improve handwriting with printable mazes
Improve your child's handwriting skills using printable maze worksheets ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Visual learning style in children
A child's learning styles can vary - find out what a visual learner needs to learn effectively ...
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Handwriting milestones 9-10 years
Discover the handwriting milestones as your 9 to 10 year old develops their cursive and print handwriting skills ...
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Mathematics milestones 5-6
Developmental milestones for school aged children in mathematics help parents learn math, fractions and other skills their kids need ...
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Tips for encouraging reading
Find ways to help your child develop a lifelong love of reading. Here are some simple ideas help kids love ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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List of 1000 most commonly used words
First published in 1915, the Ayres spelling list contains 1,000 of the most commonly used words ...
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Learning difficulties
Every child is capable of learning and each child learns in a different way so it is important that each ...
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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 ...
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