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10 Reasons Your Child’s Teacher Is Becoming Frustrated
Teachers become frustrated when children arrive with unlabelled belongings, unsigned homework diaries, incomplete homework, untidy uniforms or too little sleep, or when they are late, disruptive or struggle to follow instructions. Parents can help by labelling items, monitoring homework, preparing the night before, teaching listening skills and self-control, and modelling respect at home.
New Worksheets Available for Download
WorksheetCloud added new downloadable worksheets for Grades 4 to 8, including Natural Science and Social Science for Grades 4 and 5, Social Science for Grade 6, History for Grade 7, and English, Afrikaans, Natural Science and Social Science for Grade 8, with Grade R, Foundation Phase Life Skills and more high school subjects planned.
Get Ready for Grade 12 Final Exams
Grade 12 learners should start preparing for final exams early in the year, because the Matric year is shorter than others. Set aside one to two extra hours of revision each week, use mind maps and notes, revisit Grade 10 and 11 work, take trial exams seriously and practise with National Senior Certificate past papers from the education department’s website.
WorksheetCloud – What You Can Expect in 2017
UPDATE: Since this post was published, the official launch date of WorksheetCloud 2 has been pushed to February 2017.
We Won 1st Place: Best Emerging Business 2015
Learning Lab Apps, the company behind WorksheetCloud, won Best Emerging Business at the 2015 Western Cape Premier’s Entrepreneurship Recognition Awards, from over 300 entries. Parents shared exam preparation tips to celebrate, including starting early, following a study timetable, taking regular breaks, sleeping and eating well and reading exam questions carefully.
Exams: What If My Child Fails?
If your child fails exams, avoid blaming yourself and focus on moving forward. Meet the teacher and follow their recommendations, and consider an assessment by an educational psychologist, who can identify issues such as reading comprehension or concentration difficulties. Remedial teaching, which builds skills rather than covering content, may help, and it is never too late to support your child.
Essential Exam Tips to Help You Get Organised
Parents can help children get organised for exams by explaining why organisation matters and building routines with a visible calendar, set times for homework and chores and fixed places for schoolbags and stationery. At school, label everything, use colour-coded books and concertina files, record dates straight away, check schoolbags regularly and model organised behaviour yourself.
3 Question Techniques to Improve Your Child’s Results
Parents can help their child answer exam questions better by explaining how questions are structured. Questions follow Bloom’s Taxonomy, from lower-order recall words like define and list, to middle-order words like compare and explain, to higher-order words like evaluate and justify. Use these question words in everyday activities and homework, and focus on understanding rather than memorisation.
NEW Worksheets and Subjects Coming Up
We've had an amazing journey over the past few months with WorksheetCloud. We've met enthusiastic fans and learned...