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21st Century Skills Preparing Children for Tomorrow
21st Century Skills are a hot topic in education today; some even call these skills the new building blocks for learning. Discover how you can foster 21st century learning at home.
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10 Benefits of Teaching Your Child Spanish
Here are ten ways that teaching your children Spanish will expand their minds and enrich their lives.
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The Goldilocks Rule
Kindergarten teacher Shelby Moore helps you choose "just right" toys, games and books for kindergarteners.
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The Imagination Station: Dress Up and Pretend Play Kindergarten Style
Kindergarten teachers know the value of pretend play centers in learning. Get ideas for setting up an Imagination Station in your house!
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Teaching Children How to Be a Friend
Teach your child how to be a good friend and to understand the true meaning of friendship.
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Traveling with Kids: Take a Learning Vacation!
Field trips and learning vacations allow children a hands-on approach that helps kids (and adults too!) learn through immersion in an environment.
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Buzzing About Spelling
With the Scripps National Spelling Bee as one of the top educational highlights this month, let's focus on the benefits of spelling. Encourage your children to give spelling a try no matter their age!
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Eco-Friendly Spring Cleaning
Try these tips for disposing of old toys during your Spring cleaning routine.
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Choosing Just-Right Books for Kindergartners
As a parent of an emergent reader, you may be thinking: how can I help my child find books that are not too easy and not too hard but instead “just right”? At my school we like to call “just right” books our Goldilocks books.
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Four Fun Ways to Celebrate Valentine's Day
Here are four fun ideas my Kindergarten students and I enjoy doing in February to celebrate Valentine’s Day. I encourage you to try them at home with your kids.
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Academic Scrapbooking
More than just an arts and crafts project, scrapbooking can also serve as a motivational tool that will enhance students' individual learning abilities.
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Nine Holiday Crafts Your Child Can Make
Here are 9 easy crafts to keep kids busy on cold days indoors over the holiday break.
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Five Tips for Raising a Reader
Parents of young children often feel pressure to get their children reading early. But putting too much pressure on children may have the reverse effect and backfire—turning them off reading completely.
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Ten Things Kindergarten Teachers Wish Parents Knew
After six years of meeting new kindergarteners and their parents, I thought I’d share some of the things that will help parents survive the first day—and the first year—of school.
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Summer's Here, Go Play!
Summer provides a great time for kids to be kids. Encourage them to get outside with these fun skill-building activities.
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Home Schooling this Summer
Parents: it's your turn to get your child excited about learning over these next few summer months.
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Hot Topic: How Important is Recess?
Many schools that are not at the highest status rating have been required to to cut back their recess time or cut it out entirely.
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Having Fun with Father this Father's Day
On Father’s Day, take time to appreciate the most important man in your child’s life.
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Tips to Keep Your Child from Forgetting Everything Over the Summer
Summer vacation is right around the corner, and as much as we love it, summer tends to have a negative effect on our children's retention.
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Instead of Speaking, Write for More Practice!
Everything we say we can write
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Celebrating All Moms!
Mother's Day is coming up this Sunday and this year it truly takes on a new meaning for me.
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Hot Topic: Will Your Child's Class Size Expand this Fall?
Millions of public school students across the nation are seeing or will see their class sizes swell because of budget cuts and teacher layoffs
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Enjoy Earth Day
Earth day should be everyday if we are teaching children to care about the environment; however, to have a day to focus just on earth day activities gives everyone a chance to give back to mother earth.
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Easter Craft Ideas for Anybunny!
Spring has sprung and with it comes easter!
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Blocks Can Go Beyond Building
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Become a Nature Spy
Young children learn best through self discovery and exploration.
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Should Small Children be Social Networking?
If you didn't already know, there is a social networking website on the internet geared for children 13 and younger.
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When Should Students Be Taught to Read?
Every student enters Kindergarten at a different ability level.
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Writing - Tips and Tricks
Reading and writing go hand in hand, so just as you are helping and encouraging your Kindergartner to read it is equally important to practice writing techniques.
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Get Them Motivated to Read
Reading should be a fun activity for children, but sometimes kids need a boost to get them to practice a little each night.
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February is Dental Health Month
Brush up on oral health skills during Children's Dental Health Month.
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Tattling
It is very common for children to tattle especially in the younger grades. For a teacher or an adult tattling can drive you "to the nut farm" as I like to say.
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Exposing Your Child to New Customs and Traditions
This February we are welcoming the start of the 2011 Chinese New Year.
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Learning to Count to 100
Tuesday, February 1st, was the 100th day of school!
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Tips for Using Music in the Classroom and at Home
Music sends feelings through my body and clicks the switch on the imagination.
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"Hey, Watch This!"
As a parent, I'm sure you're all too familiar with your child yelling to you from the playground, "Hey, Mom/Dad, watch this!"
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Celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr.
You can celebrate Dr. King's legacy by learning about and teaching your kids how he affected American history.
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Ring in With Your Resolutions or Questions
The best way to start off any new year is to make your new year resolutions –that is if you haven’t already.
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Make Your Thanksgiving More Authentic
Thanksgiving wasn't always full of juicy turkey and fancy china. Teach your kids about the first Thanksgiving and they'll discover plenty to be thankful for.
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Tips for Creating a Print Rich Environment at Home
Create a print-rich room in your home and you’ll see an increased involvement in reading and writing activities.
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Teaching Children the Joy of Giving
Let us focus on what is really important this time of year: giving to those in need. As an educator, it is my job to not only provide my students with the necessary academic skills to succeed, but also to present and model the necessary social skills that will allow them to create long-lasting relationships and to become upstanding citizens in the community.
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Teachable Moments at Thanksgiving
Involve your child in Thanksgiving preparations and discover all the teachable moments to be had.
