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Bolstering Your Child's Home Education

*Definitely read this before starting any Christmas shopping and if you've already started...stop.  Read this blog to determine what items, subscriptions or classes are giftable and that can actually help bolster your child's education at home. ✍️ Who this is for? For starters, whether you teach your children full-time at home, are partnering with a school, through hybrid learning , supplementing on weekends, or simply enriching your child’s after-school world, you are partaking in home education . And regardless of your structure, you eventually reach moments when your routines feel wobbly, your momentum dips, or your learning rhythm needs a reset. That’s where three powerful ideas shine: Strengthening what remains. Fortification. Bolstering. These three stages work together to stabilize your learning environment, protect what matters most, and enrich your child’s educational journey, no matter how your home learning looks. 🌱 1. Strengthening What Remains: Stabilizi...

How to teach your toddler to write?

Learning to write is such a critical and fascinating skill. Even in this computer age, good penmanship is still key for future academic and professional success. Nobody wants the pain of ‘crab writing’ standing in the way of decoding valuable information.

The beauty of childhood is that they can learn things quickly and learn it well; so proper penmanship, before high school, is the goal.

The good news is that pencil and paper are not the only way or even the main way for a child to practice good handwriting skills. 

Magnetic Letter Tracing Board

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Here Is A List Of Ways To Get Kids 'Writing' from the very moment they can hold a crayon or pencil:

✏ Using chalk to write or draw on a fence or on side walk. 

✏ Putting a pencil or crayon in a toddler's hand the moment they can grasp things and giving them paper to mark.

✏️ Finger tracing in the air or on surfaces

✏️ Making letter shadows before bedtime 

✏️ Writing with etch pads, magnetic boards or doodle pads.

✏️ Using play dough to form letters 

✏️ Writing on glass surfaces with window markers

✏ Writing with different tools such as pens, slim & fat crayons, markers and pencil crayons, liquid chalked etc. 


Keep writing because practice makes permanent. ✍️ 


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What are your go to #handwriting strategies for littles? 👇🏾 

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