Adventures in Empty Nesting
It’s July and time to start thinking about getting your child ready for kindergarten. With schools shut down, parents may not have had those important end of year conference conversations with their pre school teachers. Hopefully this will help guide you in knowing how to support your during the remainder of the summer break. Here’s …
You have worked hard setting up a routine to keep your child engaged and learning at home. Unfortunately, just when you think you have it figured out, there is whining, push back, and complaining. Rather than give up, you just have to change it up. While we all crave routine, we also thrive when we …
There is a lot going on in our world today. It started with Covid 19 and mass quarantine. Our communities spiraled into protests. Now big conversations about diversity and racism have begun that many families have not had before. Empower Children to Handle Bias and Racism Children as young as three years old have even …
Parents of early readers in kindergarten and primary grades will find it is a bit more difficult to find “just right books” for their children. Some books are too easy and most are too hard for independent reading. Summer is near after an incredibly difficult challenge of parenting AND teaching our children at home. Now …
Here is a basic list of reading strategies that parents or teachers can remind their child of while they are reading together at home or in the classroom. New word strategies give readers tools that help them figure out those tricky words using the visual clues the printed page is giving them. Teachers give them …
How to support your child to become a better reader Many parents want to help their child become a better reader, but may not know the ins and outs of how to go about it. This parent guide to reading strategies will help your child become a better reader and should offer the help you …
The teacher suggests that your child needs to be reading “just right books” at home, but what does that mean? What is a just right book? How do parents help their child become a better reader at home? Here’s a guide to get you on the right track! Early readers need to spend time reading …
What Technology Should I Use and What to Use it For? Remote learning is going to take some professional development in the area of technology, there’s no getting around that. But let’s find out the best easiest technology for remote learning and how we can get the most out of a few tools. Learning the …
What a crazy world we live in right now! I keep looking around from my current task and shake my head in disbelief at how different life has become in such a short time! While I am feeling so unsettled I can assure you the children in our world are feeling just as anxious. Talking …