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Check out Mindware for Great Educational Toys and Gifts
Dec 16,2011 | Posted in Teaching Games by Yolanda Fontanez-ColemanLooking for a few fun educational gifts for kids this holiday season? If so, check out Mindware. This educational game retailer offers puzzles, brainteasers, arts and crafts activities, mysteries, mazes and more to teach and entertain children and adults.
Their…
In my 15 plus years as an educator, I have worked in a variety of settings from the classroom to small group to one-on-one instruction. I have enjoyed each venue for a variety of reasons and each has produced many…
Monday’s Resource – Cool Math 4 Kids
Nov 15,2011 | Posted in Math by Yolanda Fontanez-ColemanLooking to get the kids more interested in Math? Having trouble finding ways to keep them engaged while having fun? Cool Math 4 Kids is a math site specially designed for what kids like and how they learn! The site…
Homework time or family stress time?
Oct 25,2011 | Posted in Homework, Uncategorized by Yolanda Fontanez-ColemanI’ve got a resource for you!
The kids have been in school for more than a few weeks and homework is now a regular after school activity. How is your family handling homework time? Have your many organizational efforts fallen apart? Are…
I recently attended a meeting at my children’s school. The presenter spoke to the entire 2nd grade class along with their parents and shared a poem with us – Children Learn What They Live by Dorothy Law Nolte. I had…
Weekly Resource – Books for Yom Kippur
Oct 03,2011 | Posted in Uncategorized by Yolanda Fontanez-ColemanHere are a few great books (geared for children ages 4-10) to help little ones celebrate and/or understand Yom Kippur - the Jewish day of atonement. Happy Reading!
1. The Magic of Kol Nidre by Bruce H. Siegel
2. The Hardest Word: A Yom Kippur Story…
Weekly Resource – Turning LEGOS into Learning Tools
Sep 20,2011 | Posted in On-Line Educational Resources by Yolanda Fontanez-ColemanDo your kids love LEGOS®? Mine sure do! Check out this website – www.littlebrickschoolhouse.com. It’s a great resource for turning LEGOS® into hands-on learning tools! You won’t believe the possibilities! There are awesome projects, lesson plans, creative play ideas and…
Are your children interested in history, social studies, or politics? Would you like them to be? Look no further than Kids.gov – the official kids’ portal for the U.S. government. This site is an awesome resource for students in grades…
Weekly Resource – Google Scholar
Aug 30,2011 | Posted in On-Line Educational Resources by Yolanda Fontanez-ColemanGoogle Scholar is a great tool! You can very easily (and broadly) search for scholarly literature. Google Scholar offers peer reviewed articles, papers, sources for research, presentations, and extracurricular learning.
This impressive wealth of information is harvested from professional societies, universities,…
This summer, my girls and I decided to create an on-going book log to keep track of all the books that we planned to read. The four of us each set our own individual goals and got to work on…
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