More help with learning to read

There are some very helpful videos on youtube that give really useful and practical advice about learning problems . Type in    bonnie terry   in the search bar at the top of youtube. There are 40 videos dealing with such things as spelling, reading, handwriting, homework and so on.

Also, approaching learning problems from a different angle, often children who are not progressing well have an idea in their head that they just can't do it and never will. It's a distressing and negative feeling to have to struggle and not make any progress. Even where there is an identifiable physical reason for slow progress...dyslexia, auditory problems, intellectual disability, and so on, there will also be some psychological block happening. This block can be addressed in many ways, as you know how to make your child feel successful and more positive in life generally. I have found that the best way to melt away the psychological blocks is to use certain of the Bach Flower Remedies. For example, you can use Larch for the child who won't have a go for fear that he will get it wrong. You can use Cerato for the child who has very little self confidence to have a go. You can use Walnut for a child whose self image is poor. Walnut helps him/her to let go of that self image . In fact those three remedies....Larch, Cerato and Walnut can be combined quite successfully. If your child seems to have given up and can't be bothered trying, Wild Rose is the remedy to try. I strongly suggest that you research the Bach Flower Remedies. There is plenty of information on the internet. You can buy them in health food shops usually, and it is quite easy to learn how to use them. They are quite safe and very effective. I suppose the main thing that happens when you use them is that the negative in your mind just ceases to be there, and the positive gets to take over in your feelings and thinking.  These remedies are not drugs...they have no effect on your body and they are not habit forming things that interfere with your brain or mental processes in any way.
Go to this site for the best information :
http://www.sacred-space.com.au/

A few cute pics..... animals always want to be inside!

Learning to Read: youtube videos

 https://www.youtube.com/user/unfrazzled1/videos

This a link to my Youtube channel. There a number of  really excellent, top quality short videos there that are designed to help children who may be having trouble with words and reading. Have a look at them NOW!

 The best thing is for an adult to watch a video with the child and help them to listen and look and remember. There are some work sheets available for some of the videos, and there will be further little videos as time goes on . If you subscribe to my channel you will get to see what is new as I do them. For the worksheets, just contact me at auzzienotes@hotmail.com

Holly and Ivy for Christmas

Here is some typically Christmassy Christmas singing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96decVNChdo

 The carol is a 19th century Cornish song and it is another version of the more familiar one "The Holly and the Ivy".
Here is some information from Wikipedia these carols. It seems that there is more to holly and ivy than you may think!

 "The Holly and the Ivy" is an English traditional Christmas carol. The carol contains intermingled Christian and Pagan imagery, with holly and ivy representing Pagan fertility symbols^[1]. Holly and ivy have been the mainstay of English Christmas decoration for church use since at least the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, when they are mentioned regularly in churchwardens’ accounts (Roud 2004). Holly and ivy also figure in the lyrics of the "Sans Day Carol".

more music for Christmas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3TUWU_yg4s&feature=related

This one of the most famous pieces of music ever written, sung by one of the most famous choirs!

Giotto di Bondone (1266/7 – January 8, 1337), better known simply as Giotto, was an Italian painter and architect from Florence in the late Middle Ages. He is generally considered the first in a line of great artists who contributed to the Italian Renaissance. This is a painting called "The Annunciation". It's not such a great reproduction as far as colours go, but you can see the quite impressive colour scheme of the angel's wings! The picture is actually a painting on a wall. It is known as a fresco.  There is a lovely Christmas carol about this particular scene, called The Angel Gabriel. here is the youtube link for that :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pliqObTHxUQ&feature=related

Another lovely painting

This lovely picture is called "Girl with a Dove" and it was painted by Picasso. Fortunately he didn't feel that it would look better if the girl's eyes were jammed right together over near her ear, or that she would look nice in bright reds and yellows, separated by strong black lines! This must be one of the few paintings he did that has not only a reasonably realistic image, but also a soft, delicate and fragile quality. Here is some more music of Debussy to complement the little girl.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvFH_6DNRCY