Education: 8 Ways to Keep Math Skills Up in the SummerEducation—Summer is the break kids look forward so they can shut off their minds. But summer is also three months out of the year when your kid’s developing brains should be practicing and staying in shape. As summer activities begin, keep your children’s minds open and ready for growth…
Summer Learning: How to Make an Educational Treasure MapIt can be hard this time of year, particularly during the summer, to keep up your kids' enthusiasm for learning. For that matter, it can be hard for you to keep up your enthusiasm to help your kids to learn. If you're like me, you've been working hard…
Summer LearningSchool may be out for summer but don't let that make you take a vacation from education. Your children have worked so hard all year to master their skills. Keep them sharp with fun summer learning activities. Having kids of varying ages I know this can be a challenge.…
Summer Learning: Math and Reading Sidewalk Chalk ActivitiesVery soon, the kids will be out of school for summer. While that means lots of fun activities, we don't want them to experience too much of the "summer slide," where they lose some of what they learned during the school year. To avoid this, it's a good idea…
5 Simple Preschool Math Activitiesparenting • ages and stages • education
Before young children are able to perform simple mathematical operations, like addition and subtraction, they must first understand that the visual representation of a number, the way it is written, represents a set or quantity. For example, if I see the number 5 written on a piece of paper,…
