The scope and breadth of content available on the BBC’s flagship online education service, BBC Bitesize, has certainly increased in the past few years, seeing students and parents through various lockdowns and educational disruption. Now the BBC is launching the first ever BBC Bitesize revision podcast to help students revise […]
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Popular Sesame Street characters Elmo and Cookie will be crossing the Atlantic to appear on CBeebies… next Autumn. The Furchester is a joint collaboration between the BBC and the non-profit Sesame Workshop, and is about a close-knit family of cheerfully incompetent monsters who own and operate an ‘almost’ world-class hotel. […]
babybookboom band-bags have received the Gold Practical Parenting & Pregnancy 2011/2012 award for the Learning/Developmental Toy Under £20 whilst the multi-lingual music CDs collected the Gold Practical Pre-School Award in the category of Modern Foreign Languages. babyboomboom’s band-bags took first place ahead of leading brands Tommee Tippee and P’kolino in […]
It’s the age old problem. You really want to help your child with their homework (without giving them all the answers, of course) but you realise your own skills aren’t necessarily up to scratch. “It’s all changed so much since my day,” you mutter as you try to get your […]
The BBC has just announced a range of programmes for younger children scheduled to air throughout the year. Heading the lineup comes Rastamouse — narrated by Reggie Yates — a colourful, musical animation based on the acclaimed books by Genevieve Webster and Michael De Souza. Also coming soon is Mr […]
The “Teach Me Time” talking alarm clock is the perfect invention for young children who are learning to tell the time, as well as their parents who can help to reinforce bedtime and getting-up-time rules. The clock has both analogue and digital clocks, so a child learns to tell the […]
Helping your child on the way to good reading and numeracy skills is very important, as is play and interaction, so Music Bugs has combined the two. By setting up locally-run classes for children aged six months to four years of age and entertaining children through music, singing, puppet shows […]
In this article, Deanna Mascle offers up some tips for preparing your child for a spelling test over the course of a week. Learning to spell words correctly is an important skill that will help students throughout their life. It helps with both reading and writing which are essential skills […]
Children under the age of 3 need to hear 30,000 words from their parents and caregivers to ensure optimal language development and academic success. The Power of Talk research study has found that, regardless of race, ethnicity, or socioeconomic factors, kids who converse regularly with their parents do much better […]
This article was first published at Tech Digest: A new study from researchers at the University of Washington suggests that using educational TV and DVD, such as the “Baby Einstein” and “Brainy Baby” series, or “Sesame Street”, may not be as beneficial for babies and young children as many hoped. […]