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Care For Your School with Box Tops for Education
Disclosure: This is a sponsored post with compensation received from General Mills. As always, all opinions are my own. Did you know that for every Box Tops for Education, your school earns $.10? CVS stores nationwide carry so many General Mills brand products with Box Tops Clips. Purchasing these products is an easy way to […]
Teacher Appreciation Day at Staples August 17
Teachers, do you need classroom tools and supplies at the best prices? The first 100 teachers at each Staples store location on Teacher Appreciation Day, Wednesday, August 17, will receive a free sample kit with special coupons plus every teacher with ID will get 10 percent off of their purchase. NICE, right?! Find the closest […]
Play: How to Raise a Happy, Creative, and Smart Child
You want your child to be happy, creative, and smart, right? Let her play. Yes. Play. Ignore our adult created concept that kids need scheduled activities. It’s not true. It’s not how kids learn. How to Raise a Happy, Creative, and Smart Child Kids actually learn by playing! (See links below to the decades of scientific […]
A World of What If
written by Luke Reynolds, teacher, and author of The Looney Experiment After being a student for many years, and now in my 12th year of teaching, I am in a state of constant amazement at what students e-mail to say they remember after years away from our classroom. It makes me recollect what is most vivid […]
Help Your Child Develop a Lifelong Love of Reading
Raising a Rock-Star Reader: 75 Quick Tips to Help Your Child Develop a Lifelong Love of Reading by Amy Mascott and Allison McDonald arrives to well-deserved fanfare November 10, 2015 and is available for pre-order now! Parents, this book is for you. It’s easy-to-read, well-written, and filled with expert advice for cultivating your child’s lifelong love […]
Classroom Strategies for Sensory Processing Disorder
Despite the DSM 5’s (poor) decision not to recognize Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) as a disorder, it exists. And it affects many of our children. (One of mine included!) Fortunately, in the classroom, more teachers are becoming aware of SPD and the unique needs of children who have it. So what are helpful classroom strategies teachers are […]