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.

  • Mom Spotlight: Math Superstars {free printable}

    Woot!  Woot!  Stacy is a huge fan of Math Superstars and incorporated it into Summer Points this year.  Both of her kids have been wildly successful with the program.  In fact, it’s her son’s favorite way to earn points! I’ve always called it Math Superstars, but the site I’m going to share with you calls […]

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  • I’m Through! What Can I Do? books

    Every so often I talk to a mom who is concerned that her child will be “bored” (that word is for a whole new post) at school.  In a classroom of 24+ students it is difficult for a teacher to individualize all assignments. Many parents want to go into the classroom and ask how the […]

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  • Mom Spotlight: Going BIG with Summer Points

    Jennisse and I have been friends since our early days in MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) with little ones.  She’s been doing points for 2 summers.  She figured out early that her kids love to earn a lot of points.  So, she’s setting their sites on 30,000 points this summer.  You read that right: Whoa!  Love it! […]

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  • Mom Spotlight: Writing with your child – Summer Journal

    Kerry and I have been friends since high school, we went to the same college, and now just live a few streets apart!  I’m always inspired by the things she does with her children.  She is always coming up with new and fun things to do.  Two years ago she started a Summer Journal with […]

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  • Lessons Learned for Future Summer Points

    For the past 3 years we’ve had “Read 1000 pages” on the Summer Points chart.  All was great, until this summer.  Good books were tossed aside for fast reads, books with many pictures were chosen over chapter books – all in the name of 1000 pages.  My two finished all of their reading in a […]

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