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5 Ways To Enhance Summer Fun With Reading
Summer is a great time to link purposeful reading to what you are doing as a family. Here are five simple ways to make summer reading goals easy and fun: If you are going to the park, take some...
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Use Listening to Practice Math
Many skills in early education rely on the sense of sight, hearing, and touch. Incorporating another approach to these senses, while teaching a certain skill, can provide a young child with an...
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What Pet Should I Get? Is Finally Here!
As a parent and a 1st grade teacher, I’m a huge fan of Dr. Seuss. I could not wait for the release of his new book, What Pet Should I Get? And I am delighted to say it was worth the wait! From the...
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10 Tips To Ease the Back-to-School Transition
Ideally, summer vacation has been relaxing, less stressful, and more laid back for your child. But now that August is halfway through, is she ready to gear up and start a new school year? Here are 10...
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Behavior Management, From Classroom to Home
We as adults have come to know actions involved in doing a good job or behaving. As teachers all over the country start a new school year, one of their first priorities is to establish a good, workable...
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Five Home Routines for Kindergarten Success
Kindergarten is a big step for your young child! Here are five easy ways to help her become better organized for a successful and smooth home-to-school transition. Create a school night bedtime...
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Getting Involved Matters!
As you well know, now that school is back in session, it’s a very busy time for families. One of the best things parents can do to help their child be successful in school is to become involved in the...
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4 Ways To Help Your Child “Relate” to Reading
It is well-known that good readers make personal connections to stories. These self-to-text connections help children deepen their understanding of what is being read. Below are four concepts to help...
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Why Attending Your School's Open House Matters
Usually, during the first month or so of the school year, elementary schools schedule an open house or “meet the teachers” night. This is a very important event, and all parents should participate, if...
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3 Easy Ways To Practice Handwriting Skills
Kindergarten and 1st grade are the critical times when a child is mastering handwriting. So much of good letter formation depends on your child’s fine motor development. Muscles in the hands and little...
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Phonemic Awareness: An Important Step to Early Literacy
It has been a hectic yet rewarding experience completing the first week of my new assignment as a literacy coach for my school district. This new job involves traveling to five elementary schools and...
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The Importance of “One-to-One Correspondence” in Math
Although much of my professional focus is now on enhancing literacy skills, my blog posts will never neglect the importance of starting young students with solid math skills, as well. Last week I wrote...
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Help Very Young Readers Learn Left-to-Right Progression
There are many simple things you can do to help your child quickly learn the basic elements of reading. When starting the reading process, a very young child may look at a group of words in a sentence...
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Fun and Easy Help With Basic Math
I often rely on two of my old favorite teaching aids in helping young students with basic math. A common deck of playing cards and a child’s hand full of U.S. coins can work wonders in helping...
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Seven Steps to Developing Literacy
Parents are their child’s first teacher. There are many simple things you can do to ensure his reading and writing success. Here are some easy suggestions to help you support your child’s literacy...
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Fine Motor Skills That Support Early Education
Good use of fine motor skills contributes to early school success. Fine motor adeptness involves the smaller muscle groups throughout the body—for example, muscles in the hand and fingers must work in...
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Use Fall Leaves for Math and Science Learning Fun
The various shapes, colors, and sizes of falling autumn leaves and acorns offer hands-on opportunities for science and math fun. Here are four ways to use the season’s bounty to practice important...
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Help Your Child Become a Sentence Builder
Once children know letters, they can’t wait to use those letters to make words. When they know words they can then construct a sentence. Children learn that a sentence is a group of words that when...
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10 Tips for Reinforcing Good Manners
The holiday season is a magical time when family and friends get together to enjoy each other’s company. And it’s is also a perfect time to help a young child learn and practice good manners. Helping...
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Graphing for Reading and Math Fun
Graphing is a great way for a young child to visually see math and understand the concepts of more or less and addition and subtraction in mathematics. Graphs can also be used in reading to help a...
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