Top 5 Secrets to the Best Kindergarten Experience
For some children, kindergarten is an exciting experience; for others, terrifying. For almost all young children though, regardless of their perception, it's overwhelming. K-12 Directory of Schools has five secret pointers on how to prepare your child for the best kindergarten experience imaginable. Follow this guideline and your junior is ...
Top 10 Sites for Children Learning Astronomy
K-12 Directory of Schools looked at the Top 10 Sites for Children Learning About Dinosaurs, but sometimes children are interested in the future more than the past--like the space ships, light years, and everything else related to astronomy! In the spirit of another loved subject in elementary school, junior high ...
The Top Ten Books for Preschoolers
In spirit of the recent movie for Where the Wild Things Are, the K-12 Directory of Schools blog looks at the top ten books for your preschool child. These reads are simply a must as you prepare your child for kindergarten and the K-12 educational world. 1. Where the Wild Things ...
Top 10 Sites for Children Learning About Dinosaurs
Is your child learning about dinosaurs in the classroom right now? Do they have an interest in dinosaurs? Check out the K-12 Directory of School's Top 10 Sites for Children Learning About Dinosaurs to find the best places on the web for your child's dinosaur school project or fascination! Kids Dinos: ...
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5 Ways You Can Teach Kids To Read Online
Learning to read is one of the most rewarding and challenging skills your children will have to acquire. Whether your child attends a holistic school or a regular local school, they will nevertheless have to undergo the arduous yet very gratifying task of learning to read. Although your children’s teachers at school will help them [...]
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Educational Halloween Games
Halloween is just a few weeks away, which means that moms across the country are busy at work creating the perfect costume for their kids, carving pumpkins and making hot apple cider. There are so many fun activities associated with Halloween that the season can often feel overwhelming. Covered in pumpkin guts, you may be looking for a cleaner, better alternatives to all the sugar-filled activities that the month of October is known for. Amidst all of the Halloween games and activities for kids, why not have them learn something while they’re at it? There are plenty of Halloween activities for kids that will not only entertain them, but teach them something as well.
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Healthy After School Snacks for Kids
It’s that time of year again. One of the most beloved times of year for parents and the most dreaded for children…back to school time! Each and every fall students around the country get ready to go back to school and hit the books once again.
Back to school means a lot of different things like earlier bed times, family sit-down dinners and piles of homework, but it also means the daily after school snack! Kids often return home from a long day at school and want something to hold them over until dinner. However, most after school snacks for kids are greasy, sugary and just plain unhealthy. Luckily, there are tons of healthy after school snack recipes to help you feed your children nutritious, filling and enjoyable food!
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Get Rid of the Homework Headache! How to Help Your Child with Homework
Helping your child with homework is one of the most important things you can do as a parent. They need help in studying and your contribution can be a huge factor in their development. When you help your child study, you are strengthening your bond with them, encouraging good study skills and showing them that you care. However, helping kids with homework can turn into a nightmare. Kicking, screaming, frustration and discouragement can quickly become a mainstay with parents helping with homework, but it doesn’t have to be that way.
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Identifying Your Child’s Learning Style
Believe it or not, children’s learning styles differ from one child to the next. Kids learn best at different speeds, through different methods and in varying settings. Understanding your child’s specific learning style will help you to better assist them in their education. It is irrational to get angry with a child for failing to learn a concept through an instruction manner that their brains cannot fully grasp.
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Five Ways to Tell Your Child’s Bullied
When Bullying Goes Too Far Awhile back, we touched on how to avoid spoiling your child for a better social life in school. On the opposite spectrum of the spoiled bully, however, is the good child that goes ignored. Sirdeaner Walker was one of these children, taking his own life when the school did not [...]
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Ten Best Educational Toys to Prepare Your Child for College
Last year’s Christmas season, K-12 Directory of School’s blog hosted a Free Zhu Zhu Pet Giveaway for children in need. In addition to the latest and greatest toy hype, your children should also have an array of toys that will help drive educational and learning opportunities. These Ten Best Educational Toys to Prepare Your Child [...]
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Top 5 Secrets to the Best Kindergarten Experience
For some children, kindergarten is an exciting experience; for others, terrifying. For almost all young children though, regardless of their perception, it’s overwhelming. K-12 Directory of Schools has five secret pointers on how to prepare your child for the best kindergarten experience imaginable. Follow this guideline and your junior is sure to handle the first [...]
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The Zhu Zhu Pet Giveaway Story Continues
The K-12 Directory of Schools Zhu Zhu Pet Giveaway Contest‘s fifth winner ended up not being the parent a child, but a teacher. She sent us her story about the student that received the Zhu Zhu Pet recently; check it out: I won this gift for a little girl in need at my school. Stephenie*, [...]
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Encouraging Reading in the Classroom
If there’s one thing Harry Potter proved, it’s that children can love reading. There are always children that are hesitant to read though, with teachers encouraging them to indulge in the written word in practically any way imaginable: newspapers, magazines, even video games. One of the classic ways we overlook though is simply presentation; when [...]
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