Creativity · 06-27-2015
While nurturing children's rapidly developing skills, it can be difficult to align their love and excitement for learning new things with academic tasks. This summer, let your children take the lead. Listen to what they want. Allow them to create, discover, and learn through play. A considerable amount of research supports the importance of play, and it is a wonderful way to encourage creativity and a love of learning. Play is thinking, exploring, and imagining. Children who are playing are...
Activities · 06-23-2015
Amadeus Mozart is an award-winning, bright red, climbing hybrid tea rose. The healthy, large, yellow flowers of the Charles Darwin rose appear throughout the summer and autumn with a lovely scent of citrus and tea. Anna Pavlova is a fragrant rose with pointy petals and straight sides. The rose is considered the “Queen of Flowers” and comes in a variety of colors, scents, shapes and has a multitude of uses. These distinct qualities make it the perfect flower for attribute-based writing...
Books · 06-12-2015
“Rose Howard is obsessed with homonyms. She’s thrilled that her own name is a homonym, and she purposely gave her dog Rain a name with two homonyms (Reign, Rein) which, according to Rose’s rules of homonyms, is very special. Not everyone understands Rose’s obsessions, her rules, or the other things that make her different – not her teachers, not other kids, and not her single father.” Rain, Reign is about Rose, a fifth grade student with an “official diagnosis” of...
