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Why Learn Latin?

I love getting students to enjoy Latin! It is one of my favorite subjects to teach. However, I ALWAYS get people who say to me, “Why Learn Latin? No one speaks it!” That is true, Latin isn’t the native language of any group of people now. However, that doesn’t mean it isn’t one of the…

Stop TRYING! You are not doing it anyway!

Stop TRYING! One thing that I can’t stand to hear from any one, regardless if it is an adult or child, is that they are “Trying”. As Yoda says, “No! Try not. There is no TRY. There is do or do not.” When you say you are “trying”, that gives you an easy out. If…

5 Easy Ways to Prevent Summer Slide

Summer slide occurs to students every year who don’t do anything over the summer to help retain the information they learned during the school year. On average, an American student loses 2 months of their education EACH AND EVERY SUMMER, putting them far behind students who review and even spend their summers learning new concepts…

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…

The very BEST way to help your child study for a test

Tests, tests, and more tests For most students, tests are an everyday fact about going to school. Personally, I don’t think that young kids should be tested at all, that education is a gift that should be given freely. Talented teachers know if their students understand the concepts or not without having a test to…

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…