ADHD and Learning Potential

Children with ADHD improve their behavior and academics when families are communicating with school personnel and are involved.  

http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/family-involvement-academics-adhd-0427123/

Stories of Immigrantion Yesterday and Today

 Exploring the history of immigration in America just got easier, thanks to the many resources at Scholastic. 

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/index.htm

Living Day to Day

At age 108, Alice is the longest surviving person from the Holocaust.  Her words are timeless!

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/19/my-take-7-life-lessons-from-a-holocaust-survivor/

Get Kids Cooking

 This collection of easy and pleasing recipes are sure to inspire a young cook!

http://www.marthastewart.com/275624/easy-recipes-kids-can-help-make

Funbrain.com

Reading, math, and grammar games, puzzles or even matching activities.  Funbrain.com has something for everyone in Kindergarten through eighth grade.

 http://www.funbrain.com/kidscenter.html

Storybooks On-line

You'll not want to miss this!  Be ready to enjoy stories for kids of all ages, free and waiting to be shared.

http://www.magickeys.com/books/index.html#books

Sight Word Games

Youngsters building sight word vocabularies can find additional, fun practice here! 

http://www.familylearning.org.uk/sight_word_games.html

Music & Math Go Together

Kids can get a "head start" with math concepts (especially fractions) when given opportunities to perform music.  The benefits don't stop there because everyone is having fun too!

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/early_years/2012/03/finding_the_beat_helps_kids_learn_to_do_fractions_study_says.html

Ideas to Enrich the Elementary Classroom

 I've taught kindergarten, first and second graders.  Getting creative for kids in these early years yields marvelous learning & successful families.  Isn't that what it's all about?   


http://www.edutopia.org/blog/creativity-in-classroom-trisha-riche

Baseball Season....."Let's write!"

Get youngsters thinking with the help from these images and the story of  Mr. Jackie Robinson. 

http://www.teachhub.com/jackie-robinson-video-writing-prompts

APRIL: It's National Poetry Month

At last, spring's glory and celebrating with poems.  "Inspire a child, it will be wild!"  Learning to appreciate and write verse is within everyone's grasp

http://www.adlit.org/fun/reading_celebrations/national_poetry_month/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Hootsuite&utm_campaign=ALSocialMedia

Take a Strong Stand for Our Students

Bullying is not acceptable.  "Help yourself" to the facts:  

http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/dcl-factsheet-201010.pdf