Working in Gardens Equals Healthier Kids
Kids, Gardening, and Nutrition We all struggle, as parents and as educators, with teaching children how and what to eat. Healthy eating habits, especially in a world saturated with misleading advertisements and addictive sugars, can be difficult to instill in growing, impressionable minds. Especially in light of overcoming the extraordinary challenges of obesity, these lessons […]
Ask and Answer Questions to Maximize Learning at Home!
Curiosity is a significant part of a child’s development. Curious children seek out solutions and explore new situations and ideas. All while building their knowledge of the world. It seems all too appropriate then, that an important part of a child’s primary school career is spent cultivating the language needed to ask and answer questions. […]
Back To School: Start Kinder Right With These 5 Standards Your Child Can Master Now!
1. Count 10 objects (Tip: Make sure your child puts their finger on every object and says only 1 number name!) 2. Sort objects by color, size, shape, and quantity of objects (Tip: Have your child count the number of objects in each category.) 3. Play addition and subtraction word games (Tip: Use physical objects! […]
10 100s Charts Activities to Maximize Success in Math (K-2)
**This post contains affiliate links** Chances are you’ve seen a 100s chart in your child’s classroom. The 100s chart that has become a staple in every elementary school classroom is organized into rows and columns by 10s. Here are some ways that the 100s chart can help your child develop number sense (or the flexibility […]
How to Help Your Child with Their Handwriting
**This post contains affiliate links** I currently work in a kindergarten classroom, so I know that handwriting takes time and patience to develop. Some kids magically have excellent handwriting and some kids need a little bit more help. Handwriting, even in the ‘everything on the computer’ age we live in,’ is important and shouldn’t be […]
Reader Question: How do I know what books are right for my child?
**Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links to books I use in my teaching practice and recommend to parents.** This is a question I get a lot! It’s hard to know your child’s exact reading level or to understand the scale that reading levels are based on. It’s also difficult to know exactly what content your […]
5 Ways to Make Story Time More Meaningful
**Disclaimer: this post contains affiliate links to books I love to read to my son and students.** Story time is a very important routine that all elementary school students need. The more a child is read to, the better reader they will become. However, though merely reading a story is extremely beneficial, there are ways […]
Reader Question: What is Common Core?
Very simply, Common Core is a set of skills and information that a child will learn during a school year. There are specific standards for Kindergarten through 12th grade. They get more and more complex as a child moves through the grades and the standards build on one another across grades. The common core was […]