What’s Your Child’s Style?

Are you curious about your child’s learning style?  Take the JumpStart All-Stars Learning Styles Test and find out how your child learns best! It’s easy- start by simply entering your child’s name and grade.  You can choose between Preschool through 4th Grade. Then select up to three answers to a few simple, age-specific questions about your child, such as [...]

Setting the Table for a New Year

Spilled milk, phones ringing, under-the-table-leg-kicking, a blaring television, fingers texting, over-the-table-elbow-shoving… is it possible to pack anything else around the family dinner table?  As busy and chaotic as meal time might seem, the dinner table is the perfect place to serve up some conversation family-style. Forget what Miss Manners once said and start encouraging your [...]

Making Time for Tolerance

-From the Desk of Heather Tuttle, Curriculum Writer- Christmas lights, Hanukkah menorahs, the Kwanzaa Kinara…the holidays are full of symbols that represent a variety of cultures, beliefs, and traditions, making this the most wonderful time of year to help your little ones notice that not everyone celebrates the season the same way they do. Oftentimes [...]

Family Game Time

Board games have become synonymous with family time these days.  They offer a rare opportunity to pry the kids away from the TV and sit down as a family to enjoy each other’s conversation and company.  And with the hectic lives we all lead, they are a great way to get to really get to [...]

Say Goodnight to Those Pesky Bedroom Monsters Once and For All

“Goodnight stars. Goodnight air. Goodnight noises everywhere.” Many children go through a specific bedtime routine every night. You brush your child’s teeth, read their favorite story, and turn out the lights. Before you know it, your child is out of bed and pulling on your hand. “There’s a monster under my bed!” Are you tired [...]

Lunchbox Notes: A Fun Way to Promote Reading!

Let’s face it, not all children enjoy reading because many of them view it as work or as something they have to do. But what if there were a way to make reading fun? In fact, what if there were a way to make reading so exciting that children actually looked forward to it every [...]

6 Snacks with Fruit the Kids Will Actually Eat!

Summer is here, and you’re looking forward to a nice couple months with your kids. Take a moment and imagine the fun, well-ordered family dinners, the wholesome foods you will prepare for snack time, their quiet joy as they munch down their vegetables…Psych! Let’s get back to reality. The kids will demand ice-cream and soda [...]

Reaching for Reading

Stories are a treat for your child, and a great opportunity to spark a lifelong love of learning! By sharing books and tales with your child everyday, you can help build imagination, creativity and more. To get your child started on an adventure in reading and storytelling, try these handy tricks: Correspondence Captain – Help [...]

Team Up With Teachers

Research shows kids do better in school when parents communicate with teachers and become involved in the school. Making an effort to get involved in your child’s education doesn’t take much and it can have a lasting impression on your child and how she views school and learning for the rest of her life. Taking [...]

Taming Tantrums

It’s an unforgettable noise we’ve all heard – that ear-piercing, mind-numbing, tense screeching that instantaneously set adults around the world into panic mode. These mighty sounds could only come from one place…the lungs of a toddler. Temper tantrums during the toddler years are not uncommon. In fact, they’re a natural part of the developmental process [...]