As the school year moves along, our kids inevitably hit a few bumps along the way. They will encounter academic challenges that will cause them to lose momentum and the cadence of the new year will shift as the scramble to find the best way forward. Often we don’t know about these things until we’re [...]
Notebooks and new clothes, the smell of fresh paint and newly sharpened pencils, changing leaves and the crispness of the air! Its fall and it’s time for starting over. We begin to settle back into the cadence and familiarity of routine and we can start again. I love that –it gives us another chance to [...]
By now the novelty of heading back to school is wearing off and we’re all settling into a routine. But inevitably, somewhere in those first few months, our kids’ organization starts to slide. What starts out as assignments written in planners and papers in their rightful folders soon turns into a backpack full of graded [...]
“How was school?” Now I’m not sure when that happens exactly. But one year along the way in their educational journey–we ask it and they hate it! So what’s a mom to do? I want to find out how their school day went. So I think to come at it from another angle. “What did you learn [...]
Our children have come to look for easy answers and a quick-fix approach, not only to their school work, but life situations as well. Helping our kids develop as thinkers is one of the greatest gifts we can give them. If they can think and learn then they can succeed. They will be able to [...]
At times the amount of school work our kids receive seems overwhelming to them. They may have more than one subject that they find challenging and they may feel like they’re climbing Everest. Enter graphic organizers–these wonderful charts and visuals offer assistance and help kids make sense of the mountain of work in front of them. Here [...]
Now that we’re back in the swing of things and the familiarity of the back to school routine, it becomes easier to see the direction our kids are headed with their school work. By now, we have a feel for which teachers they love and those they’re not so fond of, which subjects [...]
