Markie and Mackle unlike most activity books designed to provide a fun learning environment for teaching at home under the home schooling grow and learn system. Each book has been designed using teaching methods that may become desirable teaching tools used by public and some private schools in the future. Markie and Mackle offers such teaching aids for parents to teach at home as well as teachers to use as resource material in the class room too. How Markie and Mackle works is by providing the following skill sets through a series of interactive learning programs designed to grow with your child and increase their own abilities to: English: reading and writing, punctuation and grammar, sentence structuring, paragraph styling, speaking. Reason with: focus thinking, logic and problem solving, recognizing differences, understanding concepts. Inspiring: imagination, creativity, artistic flare, colour coordination, shaping. Maths: adding, subtracting, dividing, multiplying Science: Basic identifying; plants, insects, animals, objects commonly surrounding us in most every-day living. Markie and Mackle is designed to assist you in preparing your child ready for more advance learning stages in life up to a level 5 or grade 5 standard.