Simple Tips For Home-Schooling During The Pandemic
Just as adults have started to work from home, some children are being forced to learn through home-schooling. This is not something they will be used to at all, as you can imagine. However, you have a perfect opportunity to be a part of their educational development and help them to understand core concepts that feature in their curriculum. Something about being in the heart of your child’s education and helping them to understand and learn about the world should send tingles up anyone’s spine. But how do you help them learn in an environment which they’re not used to learning in, and how do you adjust to the new challenges you face? Make a classroom One of your rooms has to become their new classroom. It’s a way for them to go from being at home to sitting in a learning environment. They will be used to doing this mental transition every day they go to school. So, pick your living room and have a plan to move all the seating out the way. Move new seats in or if your children are still young, they can learn now the floor. Place an area rug underneath them so their…
Writing! Writing! A Joy With Pilot Pens!!
Y’all know I have a real addiction to pens. Yes, pens; those lovely instruments that put ink on paper. Those instruments that write love songs, create moving novels or in my case keep my calendar up to date. I’m probably the real reason that pens are on chains or have huge flowers attached to them. Yup, the pen whisperer! They just follow me home! HONEST!! Shoplet (don’t forget to use your Rakuten account. 2% back!) and Pilot Pens graciously sent me several packages of pens that I can’t wait to tell you about!! Let’s start with the Acroball Pro Hybrid Pens This is not just a good-looking pen, but the pen is very comfortable to hold and write with. Each pen looks great too; subtle colors of red, blue, and gray with a matte silver clip and barrel. The pens weigh enough to know this is a quality pen. The ink glides across the paper like a gel pen and dries instantly without a single smear. The grip on each pen matches the color of the ink. These pens are a true pleasure to write with. The medium ink is 1.0mm with hybrid ink. Hybrid ink combines the vibrancy of…
Techno Gears Marble Mania Crankster #learningjourney
Alice and I were so excited to get our The Learning Journey Techno Gears Marble Mania Crankster Building Kit!! We pulled everything out of the box along with very detailed instructions are several bags of parts. I was impressed with the way the pieces are packaged together making it easy to find the correct pieces when called out in the instructions. There are over 100 pieces in the Marble Mania Techno Gears Crankster set. With the help of one very adorable 4 year old I realized I was in over my head and called in the help of Pop-Pop. While kids that are 6 and over would be able to put this together alone a 4 year old and a direction-ally challenged NaNa ….. well not so much!! My nice neat little piles of blocks and pieces were being handed to me faster than I could find the next step in the booklet. Pop-Pop to the rescue!! Pop-Pop had The Crankster together in less than an hour. THEN the fun began for Alice!! She will turn the hand crank moving marbles for so LONG!! This hand crank, bucket and chain pulley system keeps her mesmerized for an hour at a…
Growing Purple Amethyst Crystals!!!
I love it when I come across a company that combines learning, FUN and overall WOW THAT’S SOOOOO COOL; factors. This one does!! Hello Discover With Dr. Cool‘s Crystal Growing Kit; Purple Amethyst. Alice and I grew CRYSTALS!!! I mean real purple amethyst crystals!! Crystals that look like ones you buy in the store. I swear I always thought crystals were cut and polished to the shape. They aren’t! They grow that way!! The sides look like polished glass. The crystals even grow to a point. I am blown away at this experiment. We grew CRYSTALS!!! I am as excited about this hands on experiment as Alice is! This IS SO COOL!! I love spending my days with Alice, her little mind is a sponge! I want to keep her excited about learning. Keeping up with that sponge, is hard work! Finding and sharing unique learning experiences with her makes my week!! Discover with Dr. Cool fit’s my criteria to a T!!! I am so excited over this Crystal Growing kit!! Everything is included from the easy to follow directions; to the ingredients you need to make the crystals themselves AND bonus, there are activities to do while your crystals…
