Education

I want to preface this with a note. This is my family's experience with returning to face to face learning, I have two elementary aged kids that attend the Gregory-Portland ISD. I can not speak for all campus' ,school...

To My Wonderful Third Graders, Summer. It’s finally here! I remember on the first day of school, during the busy bustle of collecting school supplies and learning names, one of you so smartly asked: “How many days until summer?” I...

Sensory bins have been increasing in popularity over the past few years as creative ideas flood Instagram feeds and Pinterest boards. Essentially, a sensory bin is a tub filled with items that stimulate a young child’s senses, particularly the...

If you are like me and you like to take your kids to see and do new things often it can be a challenge to be at home 24/7. While my family loves movies and we watch them often...

Back to school is quickly coming for many of us. School supplies seem to get more expensive each year so we wanted to put together some tips and tricks on how to save money for the back to school...

October is Dyslexia Awareness Month! This year it means a little more to our family. Our son was officially identified as dyslexic and having dysgraphia which then qualified him for extra support and services at school. I wanted to take...

To my son's 2nd-grade teacher, I promise I had good intentions; I really did! I bought workbooks, flashcards and took multiple trips to the library to check out reading books. I had plans to work a little every day with my...

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How can your teens and pre-teens use math in everyday life? {Besides counting how many times their parents tell them to do their chores and homework, of course. ;)} I am a mommy and I am a math teacher!  I...

My husband and I are big readers and wanted to pass on our love of reading to our son. We started young; at just a few days old we began the habit of reading at least one book to...