July 16th, 2009 by El Ed Mom
Discover what’s going on in your first grader’s classroom, find out how you can improve her academic performance in school, and learn how to encourage her educational development at home. Keep her on track in school with these skill-builders, tips, and helpful advice for enhancing her learning experience. Also, be prepared for important social transitions that may take place during her first-grade year.
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July 15th, 2009 by El Ed Mom
- Empower your kids to help with shopping the sales for back to school clothes and supplies!
- Get them to help with organizing closets!
- Work with them to donate old backpacks and supplies!
- Schedule annual doctor exam and immunizations!
- Don’t forget annual exams with the dentist and eye doctor!
- Stay on schedule with wake up and going to bed times over the summer to make the transition easier!
- Keep reading over the summer!
- Build in weekly learning activities at the museum, zoo and library!
- Offer craft time and/or science experiment type activities!
- Build in exercise everyday to replace recess time!
- Stay current with PTA/PTO meetings and school activities over the summer!
- Attend summer community events to continue to network with families from your school district!
- Attend school board meetings!
- Be active as a family in your community!
- Schedule family play dates with classmates and their families to expand the family network – meeting at the beach, park, and library as a group to build a network of support for the entire family! Children that have a huge network of support are more likely to succeed in school. Parents need to help build that network to ensure the family is involved in education!
July 14th, 2009 by El Ed Mom
by Susan Jarema
In today’s information age, data is doubling faster than ever before. Kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, terabytes – I can’t keep up! The math curriculum in schools is much larger, yet schools are required to teach it with increasingly limited resources.
This leaves students and parents with the important task of supplementing education at home. Parents truly need to be partners in the learning process to ensure that our children stay ahead.
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July 13th, 2009 by El Ed Mom
By Stacy Herlihy
If you have a child, you are required by law to make sure that the child gets an education. Some parents meet this requirement by providing the child’s education at home. Others prefer to send the child to a private school.
The vast majority of families send their children to public schools. For some parents this is an easy decision. For others picking the right public school for their children can be a confusing and frustrating task.
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July 10th, 2009 by El Ed Mom
Parents have a responsibility to know how their children are doing in school, and that entails more than signing off on a few report cards each year. Busy parents shuffle work, activities and a host of other obligations, and monitoring your child’s education should be at the top of that to-do list. Use these tips to make your child’s education a top priority.
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July 9th, 2009 by El Ed Mom
Thanks to Education Week, we know Obama’s winners are:
- Teacher Incentive Fund: $517 million to create pay-for-performance programs, above the $200 million in stimulus money.
- $1.5 billion, on top of the stimulus $3 billion, to fund schools struggling to meet NCLB goals.
- $370.4 million for the Striving Readers program, including $300 million for new Early Literacy Grants and $70.4 million for the Adolescent Literacy program.
- $50 million for the high school initiative to help with the dropout rate.
And to be eliminated:
- Safe & Drug Free Schools: $294.8 million
- Even-Start family-literacy program: $66.5 million
- College Access Challenge Grants: $66 million
- Mentoring program: $48.5 million
- Civic Education program: $33.5 million
- Character education program: $11.9 million
- Ready to Teach program: $10.7 million
- Javits gifted & talented program: $$7.5 million
- National Institute for Literacy: $6.5 million
- Academies for American History: $1.9 million
- Close Up fellowship: $1.9 million
- Foundations for Learning: $1 million
- Education Technology State Grants which help districts integrate technology into classrooms is to be slashed to $100 million.
- Abstinence Education to be eliminated outright, replaced with $110 million in grants to teenage pregnancy-prevention programs.
July 8th, 2009 by El Ed Mom
With the final words “toroidal” and “actuary,” Neel Mehta, a seventh grader at Methacton School District’s Arcola Intermediate School, was recently named the winner of the 61st annual Times Herald Spelling Bee. Then it was on to Washington D.C. for the 82nd National Spelling Bee on May 26 -28, where he and some 292 others were bested by 13-year-old Kavya Shivashankar from Kansas. The winning word: Laodicean. Go ahead, bet you can’t tell me what it means, either.
Not everyone is a spelling champ, though, and no wonder. After all, English is loaded down with some ninety spelling rules, and they’re accompanied by about 3,500 exceptions. And forget about spelling some words the way they sound. Just consider tough, bough, cough, and dough.
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July 7th, 2009 by El Ed Mom
It’s never too early to prepare for back-to-school! momAgenda’s back-to-school checklist helps get all your ducklings in a row for a less frantic first day of school. This free printable provides a handy timeline and checklist for what to do from two months before school starts. Check off those all-important errands and you’ll be more relaxed and organized as school days draw near.
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July 6th, 2009 by El Ed Mom
In today’s information age, data is doubling faster than ever before. Kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, terabytes – I can’t keep up! The math curriculum in schools is much larger, yet schools are required to teach it with increasingly limited resources.
This leaves students and parents with the important task of supplementing education at home. Parents truly need to be partners in the learning process to ensure that our children stay ahead.
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July 2nd, 2009 by El Ed Mom
Sending your kids off to school this fall? Wondering how to help them with their reading? Here are some useful ideas for every grade.
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