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. Â Let’s avoid the summer learning loss for your child! Parents often ask for suggestions to help their children during the summer. Â So, here’s a few simple … [Read more…]
Summer break is quickly approaching, and I have summer break with tweens! Â OH MY! Â I mean, it will be here before we can blink. Â The last day of school for my crew is today, May 26. YIKES!!! Â So, the one question my kids always ask, “so, mother, what are we doing this summer?” Â
Are you wondering how you can get your child to practice and master basic math facts? Â 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. Â Heck, we just want to throw in the towel. Â Don’t … [Read more…]
I have a little Fashionista in my family. Â We call her Fashion Diva Girl, and she loves all things FASHION. We’ve been working on math skills, and I needed a fun, cool way to get her thinking on her toes. Â So, I came up with combining her love of shopping with math. Â Finding new and … [Read more…]
When I first saw KitHub’s Motorized Bot, I had to check it out. This was the perfect opportunity to have my children build a motorized robot kit. My eldest daughter is in STEM Academy in our county school district.  It’s a fantastic program where kids can apply beginning in 4th grade. They accept 48 children from … [Read more…]
********Updated August 2020******** No matter what grade your child is entering, they MUST use a pencil. You can get away with not sending a binder or backpack (I highly recommend sending a backpack, though. ‘Cause they usually send home lots of important papers) on the first day. However, it’s a wise idea to send at … [Read more…]