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Stay at Home Organizing Tips – Toys and Play Spaces Your kids are at home and bored, so they play and before long their play space is a disaster zone. Toys and play spaces can be particularly overwhelming because they are constantly being ‘undone’, kids tend to accumulate toys quickly, take them all out at once, and when they have too many,  it’s tough to keep track of what they are playing with and what they may have outgrown. Getting your toys and play spaces organized will help your kids (and you) enjoy play time. As professional organizers in Boston,...

One of the biggest challenges for me as an educator during this quarantine is finding ways to deliver the curriculum using hands-on materials.  I want students to be able to use materials they already have at home to play and learn!  Yes, there are times they might benefit from printing a worksheet or game and trying that, but for the most part I really want to take the pressure off of always printing and completing worksheets.  In fact, I encourage students to document their own work, by drawing or writing about it.LITERACY GAMESHere are a few fun literacy games that...

Cool Math: 50 Fantastic Facts for Kids of All Ages by Tracie Young and Katie Hewitt (Hardcover $14.95; ISBN: 978-1843654483) My thoughts: Math is not my forte. I get along with it when I need to or rather when I can't avoid it. It is a necessary part of life for everyone. Some are gifted. Some are knowledgeable. Some are fair at it. Some are like me - struggle.This book takes the budding mathematician into the arena of what fun and cool things you can do with math. A small book that is packed with insight. Tricks to help make multiplication...

The structure of kindergarten and the presence of a new kindergarten teacher can be a big change from preschool. And the first day of kindergarten can often be an abrupt change compared to the more gradual ways of introducing kids to preschool. But that apprehension about starting school — even anxiety — can be mitigated by parents by introducing their child to their kindergarten teacher ahead of time. Luckily, many schools already have a structure in place to facilitate these kindergarten-teacher introductions, explains licensed social worker and PCI Certified Parent Coach Maria Sanders. “Most schools set up ‘meet and greet’ days,” she...

It has now been just a little over two weeks since RE-1 Valley School District rolled out distance learning for students, and while it hasn’t been without glitches, teachers are doing the best they can to ensure students are still learning even with schools closed to prevent the spread of COVID-19. During a virtual school board meeting Tuesday, Interim Superintendent Ron Marostica shared that when he sent a notice out last week that the district would be extending distance learning through the end of the school year, May 28, he could almost feel the sigh of relief from teachers. They...