Top 5 Tips on Teaching 1 on 1 Private lessons

With the huge impact of COVID 19 on the education system, many parents are turning to one on one lessons and private tutoring in order to close the learning gaps. As a private tutor you are able to give a unique lesson to your student that can focus exactly on what they need in aContinue reading “Top 5 Tips on Teaching 1 on 1 Private lessons”

The importance of seeing the child

In any regular year we would already be seeing the typical late May, early June lack of motivation. They say that the last month of pregnancy feels like an entire pregnancy in itself. I’m pretty sure that June feels like an entire year all rolled into one. This year everything is exaggerated, exasperated and wellContinue reading “The importance of seeing the child”

Women Who Invent

February is National Women Inventors Month. This is the time to praise our fellow sisters who have created some of the world’s most interesting and useful inventions. Not surprising at all right. To highlight these super sisters I wanted to gather my top five inventions made by a woman. I started looking into this andContinue reading “Women Who Invent”

Keep Calm and Stay on Routine. My top tips for family life in COVID19 lockdowns.

If your’e like me, your’e always looking for the best way to help your family feel calmer and more in control during these COVID19 lockdowns. I’m here to help you do just that. In the next few minutes I’m going to give you this one brilliant thing that helped me create a calm and mindfulContinue reading “Keep Calm and Stay on Routine. My top tips for family life in COVID19 lockdowns.”

New Years Party Fun for the whole Family

I know I know I knooooowww. We’re all waiting for that tick of the clock to tock its way over to 2021. A new beginning, a fresh start and most of all hope for the end of a globally distressing era. I’d want to party to that! Though like most celebrations of 2020 I won’tContinue reading “New Years Party Fun for the whole Family”

The place of Culture in Language Studies.

“Empathy is about finding echoes of yourself in someone else.” Moshin Hamid I recently uploaded an ABC Halloween rap to a group of local EFL teachers in Israel. While I felt a great deal of support from my community, there was still some question as to why I was teaching Halloween in a country whereContinue reading “The place of Culture in Language Studies.”

Halloween Rap

It all started when I wanted to teach some new vocabulary about Halloween. What does Halloween have to do with kids in the Middle East you say? Well I believe that teaching culture as part of language is very important. Learning about the nuances of the culture of countries where a language is spoken, inContinue reading “Halloween Rap”

Do You Have a COVID Self-Care Plan?

I’m not sure where you are at in this COVID reality. But I feel like I’m stuck in ground hog day. With three kids just turned 5 and under, I’ve had to open my own homeschooling operation, house organising company and arts and crafts storage extravaganza. Not to mention the amount of food that goesContinue reading “Do You Have a COVID Self-Care Plan?”

The Truth About Play

“Play is the child’s way of exploring the world” Are you playing all day everyday? How do you do it? Where do you get the energy from? I’m just not that kind of mum….  Do you find yourself making the same sort of self talk while scrolling through your Instagram feed of what looks likeContinue reading “The Truth About Play”