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Come on in and have a FREE assessment for students in English or Maths.

If you want to ensure your child has the best possible start to the new school term, come along and see what we have to offer.

We can do an evaluation in English and/or Maths and discuss with you any areas of strengths and weaknesses. We can help boost your child's confidence and self-belief as an independant learner.

Come along to our Centre and see for yourself just how NumberWorks'nWords can help your child enjoy learning!

Damper Recipe

 

INGREDIENTS

2 cups of flour

1 pinch of salt

2 teaspoons of baking powder

50 grams of butter

Mix the dry ingredients together and rub in butter. Add water to make a sticky scone dough. Roll into big ball and liberally dust with flour. Put into plastic bag and take outside to the fire. When the fire burns down to hot embers (just after the flame stops), grab a piece of dough and wrap it around the end of a thick stick making a sausage shape out of it. Make sure it is a thin layer. Hold it above the fire and turn the stick around until it is golden brown. Put the damper into a jam jar while it is still on the stick and eat. When well cooked it will melt in your mouth and come off the stick easily. Enjoy.

 

Helpful Hints for English

There are many great ways to make learning fun with your child. Here are some ideas to simulate their love of English.

• place labels all over the house, great for young readers. Ideas: pose a challenge to find 6 objects beginning with t, objects with rhyme, objects with blends.
• get your child to help write the shopping list or a to do list when heading up town, or around the house on the week.
• get them to write letters to a friend/relative whom you know will respond.. nothing like getting a letter in the mail.
• encourage them to write thankyou letters for playing a friends, staying the night, for been invited to a birthday party or for gifts they have received.
• baking is great fun and also YUM! read instructions together when baking.
• make your own books using photos from adventures you have had as a family/group, about their pet, friends, school trips. These will not only be treasured memories but also fun to read to others.
• let them answer the phone and learn to take messages.
• making poetry from magazine words.

Helpful Hints for Maths

Maths can be so much fun .. check out some of these ideas:

• building & construction can be great fun whether it is from boxes or wood. This provides opportunities for planning, measuring and creating shapes/objects.
• learning colours - sorting washing into colours.
• growing plants - is a great opportunity to learn about the seasons/months to plant different plants, measuring the plants as they grow.
• even laying the table can be exciting - get them to work out how many knifes, forks, spoons, placemats they would need for a number of people.
• cooking - measuring ingredients for baking can be fun and delicious.
• treasure hunts - are an opportunity to practise not only their reading but also their directionality. It can be fun to not only follow a treasure hunt but have the opportunity to create our own.
• make your own board games or play conventional brought ones.

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