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    • beginning sounds
    • phonics
    • phonological awareness
    • read-aloud learning
    • rhyming
    • sight words
  • reading
    • books
    • comprehension
      • activating schema
      • connecting
      • inferring
      • predicting
      • questioning
      • retelling / summarizing
      • visualizing
    • concepts of print
    • environmental print
    • fluency
    • non-fiction
    • spelling
    • word building
    • word consciousness
    • vocabulary
  • writing
    • creative writing
    • grammar
    • informative writing
    • tripod grip
  • math
    • computation
    • counting
    • numbers
  • science
    • animals
    • plants
    • science experiments for kids
  • Activities
    • birthdays
    • cooking
      • new for us foods
    • crafts
    • foundations
      • colors
      • critical thinking
      • fine arts
      • listening
      • pretend play
      • sorting
      • speaking
    • holidays
      • new year’s
      • valentine’s day
      • president’s day
      • st. patrick’s day
      • april fool’s day
      • easter
      • mother’s day
      • teacher appreciation
      • father’s day
      • july 4th
      • halloween
      • thanksgiving
      • christmas
    • family life
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USA9 Great Day Washington: Cool Items for Your Back-to-School Checklist (August 2018)

USA9 Great Day Washington: Fun Activities to Keep Your Kids Busy in the Summer (July 2017)

ABC7 Good Morning Washington: Try It Tuesday–Make Homemade Slime (June 2017)

ABC7 Good Morning Washington: Must-Have Children’s Books about Puberty and Sex (September 2016)

ABC7 Good Morning Washington: Should You Delay Kindergarten Enrollment? (August 2016)

 

ABC World News: Family Survival Tips for When Disaster Strikes, October 2013

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ASTRA’s top toys & shop local: Fox 5 DC, November 2013

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Keeping Kids Sharp Over the Summer, NBC4 Washington, 06/18/11

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I am extremely grateful to have guest posted or have been featured here:

  • A Bullseye View: Avoid the Summer Slide
  • Arts & Humanities Council of Montgomery County
  • WGBH: Kids Media Matters
  • Make & Takes Summer Camp Series: Alphabet Letter Splash
  • Raising Playful Tots: Sensory Alphabet eBook
  • Moms Share Online Safety Tips: Yahoo! Safely
  • ABC and 123: Learning Cooperative
  • 5 Minutes for Mom
  • No Time For Flashcards
  • 3:17 a.m.: Useful Bits on Telling Stories
  • Love That Max
  • Occupation Mommy
  • Tech Savvy Mama
  • Shining Dawn Books
  • Early Childhood Resources: Interview
  • Toddler Planet
  • Tech Savvy Mama
  • Scholastic’s Parent & Child magazine 2010 Parent Blogger Awards
  • Raising Playful Tots Index
  • AnnArbor.com, Parenting Q & A
  • Birmingham Mommy
  • A Parent in Silver Spring
  • Tech Savvy Mama
  • Frugal Family Fun Blog
  • Famigo: Summer Learning Ideas
  • Jardim de Infancia
  • Literacy Toolbox
  • 1 + 1 + 1 = 1
  • Surviving the Sandcastles
  • 1 + 1 + 1 = 1 — Learning Tools
  • Volunteer Spot
  • LeapFrog Community Blogs
  • By Moms, For Moms: Lansinoh.com Mom Blogger of the Week Interview
  • Early Childhood Resources: for parents and teachers
  • Baby Bunching: Crafting with your bunch
  • Resources for Teaching Reading
  • Stage of Life — Raising a Family/ Reason to Read
  • Wonder of Children

 

  I am excited to have been mentioned in these publications:

  • Star Tribune, Target Deploys Prolific Group of Social-Media Gurus to Win Over Consumers, 4/13/13
  • The Record, Parents of Swimmers. . . , 4/30/13
  • Time Business & Money, 4/22/13
  • Wall Street Journal, To Pack an A-Plus Lunchbox, 10/3/11
  • Blog Talk Radio: Back to School podcast, by My Crew Magazine, 8/11/11
  • Huff Post Parents, Missouri ‘Facebook Law’ Limits Teacher-Student Interactions Online, Draws Criticism and Praise, 8/2/11
  • Birmingham Mommy, Holding back your kindergarten-aged child: Will it really give him an edge?, 5/15/11
  • Washington Post, Camp’s out: Kid-friendly activities and happy hours in the Washington Area 7/30/10
  • Family Fun Magazine, What Others are Saying 08/10
  • Frederick Gazette, 3/25/10
  • Washington Post, Local Living–Blog Watch, 12/12/09
  • Shelby-Utica Patch, Parent’s Corner

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    • Teachers With Apps
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    • All Things Mamma
    • Exploring Literacy With Heart
    • Seton Spirit
    • The Chaos and the Clutter
    • Catholic Sistas
    • Waterford Institute
    • e-Quipped
    • Tip Junkie
    • Six Sisters Stuff
    • Fave Crafts Blog
    • Lark Crafts
    • Baby Center Blog
    • Creative Family Fun
    • This Reading Mama
    • G is for Gift
    • The Classroom Creative
    • Busy Kids, Happy Mom
    • Five in Ohio
    • Carrots are Orange
    • Ohio Project More
    • Ali Edwards: Project Life
    • The Crafty Crow
    • Family-Friendly Knoxville
    • Frugal Family Fun Blog
    • Justice Fergie’s Life IS the Party
    • No Time For Flashcards
    • Superheroes and Princesses
    • Explorations
    • One Crafty Place
    • Feels Like Home
    • Turning Ordinary into Extraordinary
    • Mama Kenz Studio
    • Our Nifty Notebook
    • Muses of Megret
    • Raising Itty-Bitty Bookworms
    • Planning With Kids: 10 Resources On Children’s Literacy
    • FamilyEducation.com
    • FreePrintables.com
    • From the Hive
    • Pink and Green Mama
    • Free Homeschool Printables
    • Hooked on Phonics
    • Dreambox Learning
    • Circle of Life: Multi-Tasking Mommy Blog
    • From the Desk of a Future Teacher
    • Smiling Mama
    • Family Education.com
    • Impress Your Kids
    • Sweet Brown Sugars
    • Tot School
    • Takoma Park Cooperative Nursery School
    • Literacy News
    • Simple. Messy. FUN!
    • Very Blessed Mommy
    • B.Inspired, Mama!
    • Nurture Mama
    • read.learn.grow
    • Impress Your Kids (and again!)
    • When Crazy Seems Normal
    • The Activity Mom
    • Complete Organizing Solutions
    • Roo’s Classroom (and here!)
    • United Teaching Discoveries
    • Giving Up on a Clean House
    • DC Urban Moms
    • Literacy News, 661th ed
    • Literacy News, 670th ed
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    • little illuminations
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    • PBS Parents: Booklights
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    • Mondorfment
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    • Kate’s Musings
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    • Yodeling Mamas
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    • On Our Minds @ Scholastic
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    • Raising Great Readers With Great Books
    • Second Grade Journeys
    • Living Breathing DIY
    • Play 2 Learn with Sarah

I’m proud to be on the education-related blogrolls here:

  • Raising Playful Tots Index Hooray! I’m number 8 out of 100!
  • Alltop: Education, Parenting, & Moms)
  • dys Talk
  • Innovations in Education
  • Let’s Explore
  • Hooked on Phonics Blog
  • PBS Remotely Connected
  • Preschool By the Bay
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  • Pink and Green Mama: Inspiration
  • Imagination Soup: My Favorite and My Best
  • No Time For Flashcards
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  • The Crafty Crow
  • Let’s Explore
  • Mel’s Desk
  • Dutton Elementary School
  • Mommy Daddy Blog
  • Paula Yoo: Write Like You Mean It
  • TeacherTime123

I am so thankful that ‘we teach’ was mentioned here:

  • Motherhood on a Dime
  • Money Saving Mom
  • Living Montessori Now
  • Simply Frugal
  • From the Hive
  • families.com (we teach)
  • Forskoleburken
  • Play 2 Grow
  • Not Just Cute
  • Small Types
  • The Activity Mom
  • Nurture Store
  • let the children play
  • The Activity Mom
  • Literacy Toolbox
  • Mom Central
  • Candy Experiments
  • let the children play: play resources
  • Small Types
  • Roots of Simplicity
  • Home Education Association of Virginia

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