Whether you are preparing for an exam in high school or college, preparing for it can be a stressful endeavor that sometimes will overwhelm students. The key to it all is to make sure that you have a method set up so that you can be at your peak performance level when you sit down ...
Being the poor college student I am, I constantly seek ways to score money that won’t a.) Interfere with classwork and b.) Be deemed illegal. I was referred via Facebook, because that is something I constantly seek out as well, to check out StudyBlue.com. StudyBlue promised money to post that which I already had: notes ...
As a teacher, one of biggest worries was that students would forget their math facts over the summer. Students get very anxious for fall, when they fear that they will forget or not be ready for the next grade. It’s difficult to regiment kids on vacation. As a parent and home-schooler, I made sure we ...
The following games are things I have personally used in my classrooms in the last 2 years of teaching ESL in China. You will have to judge for yourself if they will fit with your classes. No look!: Make two teams and place one student from each team in front of the whiteboard, facing away ...
When children have already learned how to recognize and name letters before entering kindergarten, they “tend to have an easier time learning to read than do children who have not learned these skills.” (U.S. Department of Education) It’s important for children to be able to also recognize beginning letters in familiar words, distinguish between lowercase ...
Are you looking for an easy and fun way to teach your child music notes? If so, I have found some great sites. I have a 7 year old son who has been taking piano lessons for about 9 months now. He is doing quite well. The thing he struggles with most is remembering the ...
First and foremost, the easiest way to transition a child into reading is to teach them to love books. This naturally happens by reading to them from infancy or as wee babies. While it may seem, as babies, your little one is not attentive, the mere act of expressing the art of reading to the ...
Good study habits are sometimes hard to come by. Studying, although it is not that much fun, is a large portion of your life as a student. To get anywhere in life, you are going to have to analyze and memorize different subjects at some point or another. Many people do not have that good ...
Constantly people are asking me what influenced me to learn Japanese as a third language. To the best of my knowledge, I always reply that it is the hardest language to learn. Being a person with a stubborn personality, I chose to learn Japanese while in college and while living abroad in Japan. After that ...
DIY crafts are a great way to spend some time with the kids and save some money, too! Toddlers are full of ideas and energy and they need productive activities to keep them busy at all times. These DIY free alphabet flashcards are perfect to be made with toddlers and then once they are made ...
