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It was wonderful teaching the children HAR songs and reading with the fantastic Jessica Mauboy this week. What a terrific role model for the children, and an inspiration for us all. Apart from her natural aptitude as a teacher and her extraordinary voice –   one of her greatest legacies will be the way in which…

During this speech Margaret spoke compellingly about the importance of  creativity, courage to be different, finding your passion and following it in the teaching profession and life more broadly. She spoke  about the importance of mother tongue education and described her journey developing the Honey Ant Readers as one that was a conglomerate of her many life…

  This week the Honey Ant Readers  have been in balmy Cairns for the 5th National Conference run by the Secretariat for National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care entitled, ‘For our Children: Living and Learning Together’. Although a big conference of over 1,200 delegates, this has been one of the best organised and most dynamic conferences we…

The importance of children being read to from an early age is emphasised by  ‘Let’s Read’ in their latest tip sheets: http://www.letsread.com.au/Parents/Reading-tips-and-tools/Reading-tip-sheets. Let’s Read was developed by the Royal Children’s Hospitals Centre for Community Child Health, Melbourne and works to engage families, the community and professionals in promoting reading to children from birth. Our illustrator, Wendy Paterson…

This little preschooler has been using props from the Honey Ant Readers series for role play and drama exercises. The children especially love pretending to be little honey ants crawling in their tunnels running away from Nana!  

At the Honey Ant Readers, we’re all about student success in learning to read. That’s why we love examples such as this one in Kintore. This talented student proudly shows his part-complete activity sheet after reading HARs and winning at the card game.  Here is another photo of children enjoying reading, and  listening to, the HARs in their…

We had 2 lovely emails from an excited Mum who bought our writing books for her son, which we’d love to share: “I can’t tell you how grateful we are for your Honey Ant products. Without a word of a lie my 7 year old went from illegible writing to almost perfect writing with your…

We are so enormously excited to have launched our new monthly newsletter this morning! Check it out on http://createsend.com/t/t-2D7BB5D5C604861F or if you would like to receive an issue every month, please let us know: admin@honeyant.com.au and we’ll add you to our list!