by Amy LeForge | Mar 18, 2012 | Education
You may have heard it said before: play is the work of childhood. Does that seem like a strange statement to you? It’s true. Play helps develop a child’s imagination, and imagination is critically important in life. First of all, a child with imagination is able to...
by Amy LeForge | Feb 29, 2012 | Education
Sarah Collinge has written the book Raising the Standards Through Chapter Books: The C.I.A. Approach, and it’s rocking my (educational) world. Let me explain. My boys do not like to read. Teaching them to read was a very painful process for all of us, even...
by Amy LeForge | Feb 27, 2012 | Education
Editor’s note: see the Rafflecopter widget at the end of the post for a new giveaway! Grammar. An exciting topic, no? Okay, probably not. It is an important topic though, for anyone who has to write. (That’d be most of us.) Students write papers routinely,...
by Amy LeForge | Feb 20, 2012 | Education
How Does Your Child Learn? Helping your child learn can sometimes be quite a challenge. After all, every child learns differently. Maybe you’ve taken on the challenge of homeschooling, or maybe you just want a great way to help your child do better with her homework...
by Amy LeForge | Feb 7, 2012 | Education
As a proactive parent or teacher, you will undoubtedly be involved with the fundraising activities that go on throughout the school year. Many schools rely heavily on fundraising activities in order to purchase important equipment that enhances school life for many...
by Amy LeForge | Jan 25, 2012 | Education
Pre-kindergarten is the first formal classroom education that children between the ages of 3-5 attend. The purpose of a pre-kindergarten is to familiarize children with typical school atmosphere. As kindergartens are meant to be academically oriented, children are...
