Easy homemade play ‘sand’

Last weekend, Cole wanted to make some art projects with sand.  You know – those fun-looking jars with all the colored sand that your kids can make at fairs or the beach.  While I have lots of colored pasta and rice, I don’t have any sand.  While I was looking for ideas, I came across…

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Does your child have good comprehension skills?

Learning to read and learning comprehension skills are two totally different abilities and needs 2 different parts of the brain.  However, most schools assume that if a student can read words out loud, they should automatically be able to comprehend.  This hope is untrue and our brains need to be trained to comprehend, especially if…

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Using pasta to explore science, math and art

I had some time and my little one wanted to make something different – as usual. I looked in the cupboards and found boxes of expired pasta in the back – PERFECT! Instead of throwing them out, we used them. We filled a pot to boil water and he asked about what does that mean,…

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Bunny Town

For those of you who have lots of time AND crafting skills, here’s a really fun Easter project.  This project is NOT meant for little ones to help, although that is, obviously, up to you.  It is the most complex crafts that I have done ever but, boy, do I feel proud of it once…

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How big is your vocabulary?

Did you know that the average American uses less than 4% of the English language? If you think that is a ridiculously insignificant amount, the SAT is being “improved” because they feel it is too difficult, so they have changed it to use more common words. Before this adjustment, students were instructed they really should…

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