Education and parenting. Helping your child with reading, math, science and getting along with others.
Do you think seahorses are magical too? There is something about having a head like a horse, a tail like a monkey, and skin color that can change like a chameleon. It doesn’t surprise me that Poseidon is the father of horses in Greek Mythology! Seahorse Facts Did you know that father seahorses hatch the…
Will we all be eating jellyfish in the future because jellies have taken over the oceans? It’s entirely possible according to marine biologists. In waters from the Sea of Japan (aka East Sea) to the Black Sea, jellies today are thriving as many of their marine vertebrate and invertebrate competitors are eliminated by overfishing, dead zonesand other…
Columbus Day is a school holiday but my kids only learned about why they [really] get the day off when they were in preschool. Why don’t they learn more in elementary school? Perhaps it’s because of the controversy over his “feat.” There are three main sources of controversy involving Columbus’s interactions with the indigenous people…
Please welcome my guest blogger today, middle-grade author Karen Day. She happens to live in my town and I’ve had the pleasure of seeing her at the dog park as well as on the soccer field when Grasshopper and Sensei was in 3rd grade — her youngest daughter was on the same team. She’s been…
Does your child have a class pet at school? Do you ever wonder about sponsoring a class pet for a teacher? I’ve had the most wonderful Kindergarten teacher for all three of my kids. When we visited her classroom earlier in the year, I noticed that one of the class pet aquariums was empty so…
I thought this was great for parents and teachers. Google has teaching videos on how to use Google for search: Web search can be a remarkable tool for students, and a bit of instruction in how to search for academic sources will help your students become critical thinkers and independent learners. With the materials on…
The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. When I went to college, my boyfriend informed me that I was provincial. From a province. He was from Queens, New York, and commuted an hour each way to a New York city magnet school. I protested that I was from a…