We've got so many great things to tell you about and ideas to share in the year ahead, and the first is 
getting kids involved with a visual diary.
Kids often use journals to practice writing and literacy skills. How about a visual diary to get other parts of the brain working?
If we remember that the brain sees in images before it processes words and numbers, adding a visual aspect to work makes sense to reinforce ideas. Encourage your child to spend a quick 5 minutes doing a visual representation of something. Just a quick simple sketch or even a collage is all that is needed, as it may be a way for more visual thinking children to cement the information in their heads. Make use of colours and textures to really anchor the concepts.
You may want to guide them through this - you will certainly need to for the first few times - but after a while, your kid/s will get the hang of making the visual stimulus for themselves.
Sometimes children struggle with the concept of division being the opposite of multiplication – a visual representation of this drawn or collaged with bright materials in their diary at the end of the day, importantly one that they create for themselves, might help them remember the concept better rather than having used a prepared worksheet.
Even better is to use collage materials in their visual diaries – the more creative and involved these diary pages become the more they will serve as alternative memory reinforcement for students with visual strength. Feathers are great to use as kids love them and the colours are brilliant! Foam pieces are great for making quick pictures or mind web representations. Large stems are a great resource as they can be bent into any shape and again engage another of the senses with their tactile manipulation. They can then be glued into the visual diary collage page.
Encourage your kids to be as free flowing as possible, and even add to their diary over the weekends and school holidays. Some will do it grudgingly, others will delight in it...but all will have a learning experience from it.