Something Challenging for your Third Grader

November 3, 2009

Is your child good in math?  Does he/she need just that little something to keep them challenged?  I found this website that will challenge your child in a fun and interesting way. Math Apprentice is fun and very practical.  Your child gets to pick a career and then solve problems that relate to that career.  [...]

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Helping Your Ill Third Grader Keep up with Class

October 28, 2009

I came across this article that I want to share with you.  It gives good ideas for parents and teachers as to what to do when your child has to stay home because of illness. http://ow.ly/x4kS Check it out.

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Reading and Talking, the Connection for Your Third Grader

October 27, 2009

Speaking and reading are  so obviously connected, that it almost seems unnecessary to write this post.  However sometimes the obvious has to be emphasized. We want our children to be good readers, but at times we get too busy to listen to our children talk.  Converstion builds vocabulary and when vocabulary is expanded reading comprehension [...]

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A School Year Scrapbook for Your Third Grader

October 13, 2009

I just read an article from the Detroit Free Press where Dr. Danny Brassell, associate professor at California State University-Dominguez Hills, suggests that parents help their child make a school year scrapbook. One way to do this is to buy a three-ring binder that your child can add pages to during the year.  These pages [...]

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Motivating Boys to Read

September 22, 2009

When my son was young,  he was not a big fan of reading.  He seemed to always   have something to do that was more fun.  My husband and I had to  turn to bribery to get him to read.  One time my husband said he would take him out to lunch at a restaurant of [...]

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Motivating Your Third Grader

September 14, 2009

Not all students come to school excited to learn and ready to absorb everything the teacher says.  Some children are just not motivated and for these students teachers and parents have to work together to find an answer.  Here are some ideas. If you are a parent of an unmotivated child, talk to the teacher [...]

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Helping Your Third Grader be Organized

August 20, 2009

Teaching organization skills to your third grader can be one of the most challenging yet one of the most important  skills that you can teach, one that will carry over into their adult life. How do you get started? Buy a backpack and at least one or two pocket folders. Label the folders or the [...]

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Getting Your Child Ready to Start School

August 12, 2009

Here in the midwest parents and children are getting ready or at least thinking about getting ready for school to start.  What can you do to help your child be ready for that first day of classes? A week or two before  school starts, have your child gradually start waking up earlier.  This way he/she [...]

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Making Reading Fun During the Summer

July 1, 2009

How can you, as a parent, make reading more fun during the summer? Well, if your child is into sports try these ideas from the Women’s National BAsketball Association (WNBA): On this website you can download a reading chart where your child can keep track of the number of minutes he/she reads each day.  At [...]

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Reading Over the Summer, Can Teachers Tell?

June 30, 2009

It is so important to read over the summer.  Children who do not read over the summer can lose many of the reading skills that they learned during the school year.  Now according to this article in the Times Colonist teachers can tell when school starts back up again which students have read and which [...]

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