Turn Off Tech and Deal Me In
Recently, I had the best time watching my grandson play cards. Solitaire. Sounds like a real nail biter doesn’t it!? But for real, it was such a treat. I didn’t know he knew how to play solitaire!
Bette Fetter
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Literacy Apps for Summer Learning
Early readers can benefit from time spent on apps. They can make the difference in your child’s reading and vocabulary development. With the help of CommonsenseMedia.org and some other resources, we’ve curated a brief list of apps for your early reader.
23 Summer STEAM Activities for Kids
Getting the whole body involved is a great way to encourage right brain thinkers to continue learning while still having fun. We have found lots of STEAM activities to keep the kids engaged all summer.
Draw Kids Into Reading
I have an easy, fun activity you can do with your young reader to improve reading comprehension, story writing and handwriting. It’s a very simple reading, writing and drawing activity that’s easy to adapt for any reading level.
How to Find Books That Are “Just Right” For Summer Reading
Now that we’ve decided to make it a summer of reading adventures, here are a few tips to finding books that fit their interest and reading levels. Sound hard? Trust me it isn’t… all you need are your eyes, ears and a little parental discernment.
5 Ways to Make Reading an Adventure to Last All Summer
Reading can be a grand adventure, even for our most resistant kids, and summer is the perfect time to make a change. With a little planning, you can turn reading from a chore into a creative way to play all through the summer.
Journey into Reading this Summer
Let’s start our summer reading adventure with your local library. They know how to make reading fun for your child, and easy on you. Libraries know kids and books and they want kids to read, so they create and host Summer Reading Programs.
7 Easy Bright Summer Learning Hacks
Time to kick back and enjoy the lazy days of summer. But danger lurks. If summer days are consistently lazy – a significant amount of that hard earned learning, will start to leak out. So how do we make the most of summer?
Take Control of Anxiety with ART!
Ok, so art might not cure your child’s anxiety, but doing art has been proven a successful antidote. Here are some of the ways doing art helps kids reduce anxiety.
15 DIY Gifts to Make for Mom this Mother’s Day
Gifts made by the kids are a wonderful way to show Mom how much you care while giving her a keepsake from those younger years. I have found a few beautiful ways to use your child’s hand print as well as some other great gifts that are sure to stand the test of time as far as homemade gifts go.
