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Joke of the Week: Where are pencils made?

Laurie Laurendeau — Thu, 17 May 2012 12:00:07 +0000

JOKE: Where are pencils made? ANSWER: In Pencil-vania! EXPLANATION: The state of Pennsylvania sounds like “pencil”, so it is a play on words with the word pencil. WANT MORE? As always, playing math games at home is a great way to reinforce math skills learned in school. Have questions or ideas about this story? Need [...]

Idiom of the Week: “Let the cat out of the bag”

Laurie Laurendeau — Wed, 16 May 2012 12:30:27 +0000

IDIOM: “Let the cat out of the bag” DEFINITION: To tell someone something that was supposed to be kept secret EXAMPLES: 1. He let the cat out of the bag when he accidentally told his sister about the surprise party. 2. I don’t want to let the cat out of the bag, but I think [...]

Beginning Multiplication Facts (0’s, 1’s, 2’s, 5’s, and 10’s)

Laurie Laurendeau — Tue, 15 May 2012 18:19:18 +0000

If your child is just beginning to learn his multiplication facts, he will hopefully not be introduced to all the facts at once. This can be very overwhelming to a child, so you will want to break the facts up into parts. Many programs teach the facts in order, i.e. they cover the 0’s, followed [...]

Telling Time to the Quarter Hour

Laurie Laurendeau — Tue, 08 May 2012 11:25:13 +0000

Once your child has learned to tell time to the hour and half-hour, she will be prepared to tell time to the quarter hour. This is typically a difficult step for most children to take, so be prepared to spend more time on it than you may have spent on teaching time to the hour [...]

Joke: Why didn’t anyone want to sleep with daddy dinosaur?

Laurie Laurendeau — Thu, 03 May 2012 13:16:35 +0000

Children LOVE telling jokes. Kids often tell a joke and giggle hysterically, but often they don’t really understand why the joke is even funny. That is because most jokes are play-on-words, or they are funny because a word in the joke might have two meanings, or the word could be a homonym. Being able to [...]

Idiom of the week: “Take the bull by the horns”

Laurie Laurendeau — Wed, 02 May 2012 18:19:45 +0000

Idioms are short phrases or expressions that we use in the English language to express a thought in a more interesting manner. Examples of idioms might include “in a pickle”, or “it’s raining cats and dogs”. Children who struggle with reading comprehension often read quite literally what is on the page, and then the true [...]

Telling Time to the Hour and Half-Hour

Laurie Laurendeau — Tue, 01 May 2012 11:38:16 +0000

Telling time isn’t as simple as it seems. There are several underlying skills that your child must have before he can successfully tell time. If your child is having difficulties with telling time, or if he is about to begin, please be sure he has mastered the following skills before you begin teaching him to [...]

Joke: What did the traffic light say to the car?

Laurie Laurendeau — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:47:01 +0000

Idiom of the Week: “Give my eye teeth”

Laurie Laurendeau — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:35:33 +0000

Converting Units of Capacity (Metric)

Laurie Laurendeau — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:23:55 +0000

Your child is probably learning the Metric system at school, and many parents in the U.S. do not feel comfortable explaining the Metric system to their child, because it is not a system that they are very familiar with. The good news is, the Metric system is all a base-10 model. So, once you learn [...]