Learning

After school activities for kids and resources for learning and supplementing school work at home. Additional classroom resources, how to support your child’s teacher, and other teaching guides, printables, activities, and ideas.

  • Improve Reading Fluency with Reading Trackers

    Is your child or student ready to stop using their “Reader Finger”, but still needs something to hold their place when reading?  Using a Reading Tracker (I call them “sliders”) allows students to track the words across the page.  Since the trackers are transparent, readers can see the upcoming text on the page. From my […]

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  • Family Computer Center

    Do you have a central location for your computer, laptop, or tablet?  When Staples contacted me (yes, me!) and offered us an Acer Chromebook, we knew we were ready to set up our Family’s Computer Center.  We’ve been researching the best ideas for having a internet-safe center. I’ll be honest, this whole computer things makes […]

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  • Family Fun: C’MON Children’s Museum of Naples, Florida

    We recently traveled to southwest Florida (Naples).  If you’re visiting the Gulf Coast, the C’mon (Children’s Museum of Naples) is right off of Highway 75.  When we first arrived at C’mom, we were amazed by the building!  It’s beautiful and kid friendly.  It also sits on the same property as the North Collier County Regional Park where […]

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  • Tracing the Alphabet for Letter Recognition

    Who knew that tracing the alphabet could be so impactful?  If you’re looking for Part 1 of this post, I shared it on I Can Teach My Child (click here). Now that you understand how powerful Alphabet letter finger tracing can be, I wanted to share some more tips and resources: Tips To get your […]

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  • Science Fair 101 (it’s a joke)

    We had a few “problems” with our son’s science fair project today.  His topic is “How Satellites Get into Space”….. watch and learn! 😉 We couldn’t stop there!  It’s an app on my iphone –  Action Movie FX from the iTunes Store. We just have the free download – lots of fun for a 5 […]

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  • Sight Word Chart for Home

    Sight Words are the most common words your child will read.  Incorporating sight words into your home will help your new reader. Sight Words are usually short little words like:  at, it, the, of, and, is, saw, when.  Many of them can’t be sounded out, that’s why they’re called  Sight words. (get it?  sight?  I didn’t at […]

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