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budgie and parakeet fun fact lunchbox notes: help kids find reliable sources online
We are now the proud owners of two budgies. Or parakeets. Or budgerigars. Two budgies. Two boys (we hope!). Right. Apparently, all budgies are parakeets but not all parakeets are ...
how to help your child remember what he reads
Some children are able to easily read the words on a page but cannot remember a lick of what they read. Believe it. Whole paragraphs, pages, chapters can sometimes decoded–words ...
how to get your kids started with texting: texting 101
Texting is big. For tweens, it’s really big. It’s like the coolest thing ever. And everyone is doing it (or so they think), and so Maddy has asked ...
5 super-fun ways to learn math facts
It’s actually hard for me to type this title after years and years and years of math drills that made my elementary-school head want to explode. Can learning math facts ...
5 ways to get your kids psyched for summer reading
Believe it—summer is around the corner. Woo-hoo! Around the corner! As in like just a few weeks away! It’s May! Pools open in May. Weather warms in May. Swim team ...
how to make butterfly pens: a sweet spring garden gift
For Teacher Appreciation Week, for Mother’s Day, as a birthday party favor, or for any occasion, these butterfly pens are indeed a sweet spring garden gift! No glue, no sewing, ...
nursery rhymes old and new: listening, learning and comparing
We’re on a crazy nursery rhyme kick over here. But instead of sticking to our more modern nursery rhyme poems and calling it a day, we branched out a bit ...
how to talk to kids about alcohol and underage drinking
———sponsored post———- My kids are not babies anymore, and I often have to remind myself of that. I started this blog way when Cora was 1, Owen was 3, and ...
reading tips and more: scholastic raise a reader blog
It’s been an incredibly exciting 2013 so far, with all of the awesome going on over at we teach and the sweet redesign over here at teach mama. But another ...
learn about safe online browsing (and win an iPad mini)
I’m so excited to have been invited to be a panelist for a Twitter event this week that brings together digital and families and kids and online safety and wraps ...
how to move from little kid to big kid bedrooms (with tips from sabrina soto & target giveaway)
For a while now we have talked about making the change from little kid bedrooms to big kid bedrooms, and we finally did it. With tips from Target Style expert ...
