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Four Ways Parents Can Support Reading At Home With Young Adolescents
As students transition from elementary school to middle school, their motivation to read declines. During this transition, students are forced to shift from the pleasure of reading to academic reading to learn new information (Barton, 2018; Kelley & Decker, 2009). In addition, motivating students to read at the high-school level has proven difficult for teachers (Barton, 2018; Jang, Conradi, McKenna & Jones, 2015). When students transition from elementary school to secondary and their motivation to read declines, it begins to affect their performance in school as evidenced by the decline in standardized test scores across the nation (ACT, 2015). The research on secondary reading motivation suggests that elementary students read…
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Keep Your Kids Learning This Summer
Photo by Les Anderson on Unsplash School is almost out for the summer. I don’t know about you, but this mama is ready. This school year has been the toughest for our kids for sure. Not because of the school work itself, but for the social aspect of life. Trust me. I will do a blog post about that later. Even when school is out, we continue some sort of learning in our home not to fall victim to the infamous summer slide. Read on to learn what I believe is the best summer workbook of all times for all ages. Some of you are already thinking, “this lady gives her kids schoolwork…
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I Hate Writing, But I’m A Blogger
As a blogger, I must write. I HATE writing! I don’t like it one bit. BUT I do LOVE sharing my story and feel there’s someone out there to benefit from hearing it or may need a good ole chuckle to brighten their day. It used to take me hours, ok days to write one article because I had to proofread it so many times. It wasn’t necessarily that I was a horrible writer; it was just that I didn’t always catch my errors the first edit. That was until a couple of years ago when DadJonz ever so nicely told me about Grammarly. Why did he tell me about it? …
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Practice Writing Skills Over Winter Break and Make It Fun
Winter break is here, and kids are home watching T.V., relaxing and having fun with family and friends. I’m not going to take this fun and relaxing time away from them, but Winter Break Is A Great Time To Practice Those Writing Skills for the little ones. 2 Fun Ways To Practice Writing Skills Over Winter Break Dear Santa – Have your little one write Santa a letter. It’s o.k. if they don’t spell everything correctly. The goal is to keep them writing and have fun with it.
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A Fun Sight Word Game To Build Reading Skills
School is in full swing. The little ones are reading each night before bed, maybe you’re working on sight words, or maybe you’re still reading to them each night. Either way, learning to read should be fun! If you are looking for a bit of advice on ways to help with reading skills I have one for you. You know I’m always going to give you my two cents, so I don’t even know why I lead with that statement. 🙂
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Yeah, This Mom Lost Her Mind When It Came To Education
What is education? I know this seems like a strange question for some, but I think it’s important to discuss and ensure you know where I’m coming from for future posts. What Is Education When I speak of education, I speak from the meaning of an enlightening moment and gaining knowledge to help one succeed in life. Education does not STOP at school. Many parents go wrong here. In our daily lives, youth and adults are being educated; we NEVER stop learning. Think about it, as you walk on a beautiful trail with your child, friend, spouse, dog, etc. you see some strange looking leaf or flower. What do you…
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Ease The Stress Of Back-To-School Supply Shopping With These Tips
If you’re like me, you realize this summer is going by pretty quickly. We still have a bit of time before all of our summer fun ends, but we are also in need of back to school preparation. Preparing for back to school can become overwhelming for both parents and children. The best thing I’ve done in past years to help ease this is to begin early. This includes purchasing school supplies early to avoid the mad rush, as well as planning out my calendar for my children’s extra-curricular activities and the school’s early dismissal and vacation days (this comes in handy for child care or if your family likes…
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Avoid Summer Learning Loss With These Few Tips
Summer break has begun or quickly approaching for many students. Don’t allow your child to encounter the dreaded summer slide educators talk about at the beginning of each year. Let’s avoid the summer learning loss for your child! Parents often ask for suggestions to help their children during the summer. So, here’s a few simple things I recommend:
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It’s Here, Summer Break With Your Tween
Summer break is quickly approaching, and I have summer break with tweens! OH MY! I mean, it will be here before we can blink. The last day of school for my crew is today, May 26. YIKES!!! So, the one question my kids always ask, “so, mother, what are we doing this summer?”
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A “KEY” To Help Your Child Practice Basic Math Facts
Are you wondering how you can get your child to practice and master basic math facts? As we quickly approach summer vacation, our kids begin to feel the burn of learning addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division facts. Attitudes are flaring. We lose patience with them. Heck, we just want to throw in the towel. Don’t give up. Take an extra 10 minutes each day and practice basic math facts with these fun keys. Let me help you out with a suggestion.
