The Everyday Learner

Where fun activities meet purposeful practice

The Everyday Learner makes activity books that provide structured practice to support progress through common learning and developmental challenges.

The Everyday Learner cast around a classroom table: Milo the monster, Dexter the dinosaur, Toby the tortoise, Ziggy the alien, Tilly the unicorn and Pip the dragon. Six friends learning with pencils, books and counting blocks.

We’re parents, not teachers

To help our daughter work through her challenge areas, we wanted material that offered more than aimless repetition and practice. Unable to find what we’re looking for, we created an activity book to support her development with just 10 minutes a day.

Through research we found that a structured learning progression could support her developmental journey as she practises with purpose. The same structured practice might also give a qualified professional better insight into the specific details of her challenges.

Her remarkable progress showed us that we were on to something. So, proud of our efforts, we created The Everyday Learner.

Structured practice, two birds with one stone.

Fun activities for the child, with useful insights for the adults.

For the child, a fun activity book.

They work through fun activities for just 10 minutes a day. The exercises start with foundational concepts before progressing to more challenging tasks.

We also included a learning through self-correction component to introduce children to checking their work.

At the core, they get to practise and improve in areas they find challenging.

For parents and professionals, a record of valuable data points.

Each exercise is designed with specific goals, inside a framework that offers insights with every outcome. A finished book is a record of the child’s performance as the demands of the exercises changed, rather than a stack of completed worksheets.

The free companion guide explains the goals for each exercise and how it fits within the broader progression. The exercise results can help identify specific areas for additional support.

Cover of The Right Way Round, a green monster holding a letter b and a letter d.

Out now

The Right Way Round

The first book is about letters and numbers that come out back to front, and about the order digits belong in. It is the kind of thing that is completely ordinary in early development, but worth working through until it’s corrected.

Elizabeth and Jean-Pierre Theron

We are parents, not teaching professionals. We made the first book with love, care and a commitment to helping our daughter work through the areas she found challenging. It’s our sincere hope that other children enjoy working through these common challenge areas.

We wanted to show our workings, in the free companion guide, so that parents and childhood development professionals might find value in the structured framework behind the book.

If you’ve used the book to support your child’s learning, we would love to hear from you at info@everydaylearner.online.