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Zoo Fun: Questions and Activities to Enhance Your Trip
Visiting a zoo is an amazing, interactive and fun learning experience for kids of all ages. To learn more, you can read my article 10 Benefits of Visiting a Zoo for all the reasons you should take your...
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5 Tips for a Successful School Year (and More Healthy Back to School Tips)
The kids are back to school – are you ready? Lunches, snacks and good nutrition, as well as more free time for parents, homework struggles and organization. Gina of Embracing Imperfect decided to...
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10 Ways to Increase Letter Recognition: Fall Edition
It is never too early to start exposing your kids to letters and words. Although letter recognition is not a focus until preschool and kindergarten, it is important to introduce letters to your kids as...
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Peanuts Day
Raised on Snoopy and the Peanuts Gang, I was proud to pass on the family tradition of watching Charlie Brown and his adventures right before every major holiday. My son is absolutely hooked on the...
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10 Educational Activities Using Candy
Do you have more Halloween candy than you know what to do with? If your season was anything like mine, then you started collecting candy long before Halloween even took place. From festivals to parades...
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Lighting Up Language
Fun Ways to Boost Language Development This Holiday Season As the mom of a child who struggled with speech, I found myself constantly looking for opportunities to encourage language development....
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How To Encourage an Appreciation of Science (When You Don’t Know Science)?
The beautiful part about encouraging your children to have an appreciation of science is that you don’t need a college degree in science. In fact, you may have been like me, an individual who only took...
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Benefits of Art: What art teaches our children?
In Jessica’s article, “Kids & Science” she mentioned that science is everywhere. Growing up in a family that emphasized the humanities, I believe art is everywhere as well. It is great to write for...
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Beyond Cool: A Review of the Beyond Rubik’s Cube at Liberty Science Center
This is not a sponsored post. Why is Beyond Rubik’s Cube beyond cool? In my office is a Rubik’s Cube. It is perched on a table accessible for my student’s to play with when they visit me. I enjoy...
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Ready, Set…Play! The Benefits of Open-Ended Play at Home
Today kids are so scheduled, bouncing from one activity or event to another, that we often forget how important it is to let our kids just play! I have to admit I am guilty of this at times. I am so...
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