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Chapter Books for Early Readers Moving Beyond Captain Underpants
This post includes affiliate links. Thank you. Summers ago, my then-rising second grader spent his first grade year obsessed with Captain Underpants. Obsessed. He found the ol’ cap’n after first exploring the Super Diaper Baby book series at the school book fair. About two weeks later, I received “thank you” emails from classmates’ moms. The boys were finally reading. And reading. And, to be honest, at that time it
Creating New Years Resolutions with your kids
This time of year, everyone’s running off to make New Year’s Resolutions. This makes it a great time to teach your children about setting goals, and can be done in a few segments. DEFINE RESOLUTION Enhance your child’s vocabulary by talking about the meaning of resolution. Discuss what it means to resolve to do something and how you set goals. This is a great opportunity
Teaching kids about the economy
While teaching community to my second grade students, I introduced them to Dorptown and the children worked on creating their own community. Our currency was based on the Dorp, which was designed by one of the students. All the children became contributing members of the community–taking on jobs such as realtor, banker and shop owner (they made their own product line.) The most popular shop
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