I am always on the look out for new ways to encourage Monkey to read and I’ve been having some success recently. Not only has he been reading, but he’s also been learning with Amazing! magazine. Double points to me! The magazine was launched in 2014 and is aimed at children aged 6-12 years. Perfect for a 7 and half year old Monkey to enjoy.
Each month learning with Amazing! magazine changes as the themes change. One month your child can be learning all about the Stone Age, the next month they can be having fun with Victorian Britain. The magazine works to the core Key Stage 1 and 2 curriculum subjects, including maths, English, history, geography and PSHE. Our first experience learning with Amazing! magazine was perfectly timed to coincide with this term’s Through the Porthole topic in Year Two.
The great thing about learning with Amazing! magazine is that it’s fun. Monkey has been learning, and working on his maths, spellings and observation skills without even realising it. There are sums to be completed as well as crosswords and his new favourite thing ever, word searches (Granny will be so pleased).
The whole magazine is full of really bright and engaging graphics and Monkey has loved looking through his first issue of Amazing! magazine.
He does love his facts, and since reading Amazing! Monkey has been telling me all about Christmas Tree Worms as well as increasing his knowledge on Anglerfish. There’s even a chance to practice his language skills with the How Do I Say? page, ahead of our trip to Spain. We were looking at the Amazing Places pages and he was rather impressed that his Mummy had actually seen deadly sea snakes in the wild. I always like it when we can relate information to our own experiences, to make it all that much more real for him.
Since we discovered Horrible Histories, Monkey loves learning about history and figures from the past, so the facts about Christopher Columbus have also gone down well.
I can certainly recommend Amazing! It’s got a good mix of information, stories, competitions, games and challenges. Apparently we will be making a Blue Whale, as featured in the magazine, over the summer holidays. I’m certainly taking the magazine away with us to help keep Monkey entertained on our journey to Spain.
If you take out an annual subscription to Amazing! magazine costing £49 for twelve issues, you save 40%. You can find more information on the Amazing! magazine website.
disclosure: we have been given a one year subscription to Amazing! in exchange for an honest review.
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My favourite subject was biology because I found it so fascinating.
My favourite subject was History, I found it so exciting learning about historical events
My favourite was all the sciences but in particular Biology I loved learning about the human and animal bodies and plants, it went on to form part of my chosen career
Maths because I was really good at it
My favourite was Drama! I was terrible at school, and the chance to be anybody but me for a short while was nothing more than pure Heaven! I would daydream about the day I would be on Broadway! Instead I became a Pub singer and a teaching Assistant lol! x
I used to love Drama and Art but I was rubbish at both of them!
Loved art – we had an amazing teacher x
maths was my favourite because it came easily to me and it was straight forward in as much as the answer is either right or wrong and its very clear!
My favourite subject was history, I enjoyed learning about the past
Science especially biology found it fascinating still do
Geography was my favourite because I found it really interesting and we seemed to watch a lot of videos in class!
I enjoyed human biology and learning how everything worked
computer studies i enjoyed it and i was good at it
Spanish because the lesson was always fun
English because I love books.
I loved art, I think cause I was good at it.
Music as I really enjoyed it.
I loved maths
I love English especially when we studied books
I loved P.E because i was really active and competitive at school
Religious education, although not particularly religious myself I find it interesting to learn about others
loved science
English as I love reading
english because i found it easier than the other subjects and enjoyed writing x
I loved PE because we used to play rounders
I always enjoyed science, it was the understanding how things worked and the experiments that appealed to me most
Spanish – i used it to chat up spanish boys on holiday with excellent results!
French- I enjoyed learning a new language
Maths – I just love working with numbers and figuring things out logically!
Art because I was good at it and liked the teacher
History was my favourite subject at school, i love learning about the past i find it fascinating.
History – learning about the past fascinated me (and it still does!)
Loved English and still do. Started with a love of reading and as a fairly shy child, I found writing was a way to express myself.
Art, I took 21 lessons a week out of 40 periods and sat my O levels a year early
my favourite subject was history, I loved it that much I’m starting a history degree in October 😀
History as i find the past so fascinating
I loved history because my teacher made it come alive.
French and German – I eventually went on to study them at uni and then became a languages teacher myself!
i loved history i found it interesting to see how people lived int he past
Home ec obviously could eat it
Geography, I enjoyed the lessons
geography, we got to go to spain on a school trip 😀
Definitely english I loved writing 🙂
I loved physics as it gave you the opportunity to understand how things work, my teacher was also very passionate about the subject which was infectious!
History, but only when learning about cool stuff like Vikings!
English because I’ve always loved reading
History – because to me it was full of exicting stories, about real people.
I loved English as I liked to read and write amazing stories
I used to like Maths, I think it was because I found it quite easy
I’ve always enjoyed Biology. I love learning about living things and how they work.
Maths. I had such an inspiring teacher and took off from there.
My favourite was science because i found it really interesting
History – I found it fascinating
Math – im really good with numbers and really enjoyed the work
Business studies, i went up 3 groups for being so clever!
I loved English, because I liked writing stories.
I loved English Language & Literature as I love reading and writing stories
Looking back it was probably Art and English Literature. x
I really liked Maths
I loved English, reading and writing was always my favourite thing to do!
What was your favourite subject at school and why? . . . . . French because it showed me l had a flair for languages, and l had a French penpal (ah those were the days) and l went on to become a French teacher
I loved history as I’ve always been fascinated by famous historical figures and what they got up to.
My favourite subject was music because I didn’t have to try hard to get really good marks!
I loved history as I am a big fan of the Tudors & Plantagenets!
German as I liked learning another language and culture
english because i have always enjoyed reading and writing
Maths cos I was good at it!!
I loved art at school and still enjoy painting and crafts.
English because I loved story writing and I still do. My daughter has also inherited the story writing Gene
History – I loved finding out stories that were stranger than fiction that really happened xxx
I was never much good at it but I loved the freedom of Art! 🙂
geography – loved the diversity of the topics covered.
Definitely art love drawing I can still draw but with 2 little ones never get time
I really liked Geography, how the world is made up with earthquakes and volcanos, I find nature amazing
History really enjoyed it, loved to imagine how things were for historic figures. My grandson is very into it too which is great we share lots of trips together. We both love reading too I know he would love these so
I loved art and still do. I love being creative and find it relaxes me.
History – found it interesting and the teacher was funny
I enjoyed Geography because we learnt about different countries and landscapes and what it is like to live there 🙂
Music – I found I could “do” this subject without it being hard – loved it all of my life!
history . i wanted to be a queen lol
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My favourite subject was history. Loved learning about past events.
It has to be history I have a fascination with learning about the past!
Mathematics – I used to love anything to do with numbers (and I was good at it). 🙂
Maths as I’ve always been fascinated by the manipulation of numbers x
My favourite subject was biology because I found it interesting and I still do.
My favourite subject was art as you were free to experiment with lots of different ideas – and I was quite good at it which helped.
My favourite subject was art, I love how there’s no right or wrong way to do art, you can get inspiration from so many places and express yourself as you see best
My favourite was English as I had a love for writing, I was able to loose myself in a fantasy world.
Drama was my favourite subject
My favourite subject at school was Art. I could get on with my work and enjoy a chat with my friends.
I loved art as you could be creative and express your ideas in lots of different ways.
I loved science and maths. I have a passion for numbers 🙂
I didn’t really enjoy anything but found maths and latin quite easy.
My favourite subject was textiles, I loved using the sewing machines
I liked Art, it was an escape from everything else
History, it was fascinating
My favourite subject was craft, design and technology. I enjoyed the practicals.
I loved Geography. I am intrigued by different places and cultures around the world!
i loved history finding about about all the kings and queens xx fab giveaway thankyou
My favourite subject was English as I love to write!
I enjoyed geography at school, I just enjoy anything outdoors.
I loved science because i enjoyed the experiments.
COOKING LOVE FOOD
My favourite subjects at secondary school were Maths, Chemistry and History. I was lucky enough to have the same three inspirational teachers for five years until O levels were over and a further 2 years with the history teacher as I took that at A Level. 60 years on I can picture them as if it was yesterday 🙂
I loved science I love the experiments using the Buncen burners
My fave subject at school was maths because I loved to work out the sums I used to spend hours just working out sums
I always liked maths
my favourite subject at school was Chemistry
I loved science but particularly biology. The facts just stayed with me I found it interesting. Also loved languages.
I have always loved books so English was my favourite subject!
My favourite subject at school was English Literature. I absolutely loved reading. Something that I get little time to do now.
I loved Maths, I was great with numbers, my son has taken after me now and is also good at the subject
Food technology as dad wouldn’t let me cook at home!
Maths as my teacher was so patient and took an interest in all of us.
For me it has to be art as i loved and still love drawing but also being creative.
My favourite subject was always art, I loved being creative and making things, I may have even had a slight obsession with stationary
PE when I was younger I just loved the execise
PE, I loved play ball and run.
Drama because I was a drama queen ha
history i loved hearing about the past
Art, I’ve always loved being creative.
Maths – I like numbers
I loved all kinds of science because i found it so interesting and fascinating
I loved Biology, I had a brilliant teacher that made every lesson fun.
My favourite subject at school was English. I had a wonderful teacher who inspired me to love books and poetry. This has led to a lifelong love of the written word which eventually led to me studying English Literature at university.
HIstory – It’s always captured my imagination.
I loved biology, learning about how the body works, experiments and going on to ecology too
English
I loved english and creating my own stories
English love reading and creating my own stories
I loved History – especially the Tudor and Roman Period 🙂
Mine was history. Loved learning about everything that has made us like we are now
English – love reading and writing
History (though this may have had more to do with the dishy teacher than the subject lol)
English because I love to read and discuss books.
I loved P.E i was always very active
I loved History. I still love learning about what happened in the gone by.
I loved English because I loved studying and writing about stories
Food technology, I was always hungry
History, I really wanted to be Indiana Jones…
Loved English, we had a great teacher who made lessons fun. But I also enjoyed disappearing into new lives and worlds when reading and creating my own stories.
Math because I was good at it and there was always an exact answer
German because I seemed to pick it up easily and enjoyed it
Art was always my favourite subject but I’m afraid I didn’t get to do it much. I love the freedom of it.
I loved English x
Art as I just loved to be creative, I still do!
My favourite subject was chemistry, I always dreamed of lecturing it at degree level. Ill get there one day !
My favourite subject at school was art, because I love being creative.
Chemistry – I loved the experiments
Always loved art and still love crafting and drawing now
I loved art. Loved taking my time and seeing a finished piece of work
my favourite subject was geography as i loved learning where place were
I love RE, it did help that the teacher was goodlooking
I loved science, leaning about what makes the universe tick is extremely interesting to me and my science teacher could bring the subject alive.
I loved English Language and it’s lead to a lifelong passion for writing.
English was my favourite, I’ve always enjoyed reading and creative writing, especially when I was younger (and had the time!)
I love numbers, so maths was always my favourite at school.