Here's my daughter's recent dance performance from the town's annual *school* fair. It shouldn't be too hard to identify Christine: My kids have never felt butterflies in their stomach, suffered stagefright, or any other public performance malady. In fact, they're always begging to go up on stage. I do believe that the ability and confidence [...]
He started with basic LEGOS as most boys do. First with small sets, assembled mostly by a parent. Soon he was able to do them on his own. Larger sets came and they too were built solo. Now, at age 7, he's graduated to LEGO Mindstorms - which sync to the computer, are programmable, etc. [...]
Today John delivered his report for his American History Club: In large group learning environments they simply don't have the time (or patience!) for kids to practice oral presentation. My son is only 7 and I think he's stood up and delivered more times already than I have in my entire life! This was a [...]
We live in the wealthiest age, by a moonshot, in history. We eat mountains of food, scrape the leftovers in the trash, children have their own bedrooms, families have multiple cars, thermostats are set at 70 degrees, powerful computers are cheap, pocket-size, and mobile,... But one of the downsides is that all these goodies have [...]
Just as no one ever says the word *therapy* without the word tried preceding it - as in "We tried therapy"....hardly anyone ever wields the word lecture all by itself. Hence the expression *boring lecture* is now a redundancy. In 2012 there is almost NO REASON and NO VALUE in any sort of live academic [...]
Reading, Phonics, Vocabulary Bananagrams. My HIGHEST RECOMMENDATION. There's just so much educational power in these tiles - and that's for students ages 3-103! This game is sooooo much better than traditional Scrabble. Scrabble Slam. Another good game to promote phonics and expand young vocabularies. Demo here. Big Boggle. Good for kids and a lot [...]
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