Add some fun new books to your rotation with our favorites for the Thanksgiving season

The preschool years are a time of tremendous growth, filled with excitement and new challenges. With summer upon us, it’s the perfect time to help your little one get ready for the big step into preschool.

A quick Pinterest search will show you how to spend hours of your time making personalized teacher gift tags to attach to buckets of candy or recreate your child’s classroom photo using stick figures and colorful buttons. But to find out what teachers really want, I went straight to the source:

Education systems vary not just within the United States but also worldwide. The importance placed on homework, high-stakes testing, and parent/family involvement differs significantly from one country to another.

February 14th.  To some, it brings flowers.  To others, candy and a beautiful card.  To me, it brings 23 rambunctious, sugar-filled darlings that I’m trying to still teach math to! That’s why I opt for candy-free valentines. 

Restraint collapse is the idea that they spend so much of the day holding it together that when they get home, they kind of “collapse” into temporary deregulation.

Back to school means back to routine, including actually eating healthy lunches and dinners, which means meal planning for the win.

We had the opportunity to join a field trip group to visit Earthaven Museum, which filled their cups full with fantastic rock-collecting fun.

Regardless of where the supply situation is, it is now the time to start getting your children back into the routines (reading, math, going to bed on time) of going back to school. I know, I know…you’re probably dreading this. However, here are some painless back-to-school tips to get back to it.

Even as a teacher who sends a lot of that paper home, I am also swimming in my children’s papers and art projects. Here are a few quick and easy ideas to save, preserve, or memorialize your children’s work.