We’ve got summer on the brain and Summer Camp 2013 on the schedule! For 11 weeks, your kids can dive into all sorts of fun—we’ve got a pirate-themed week, a spirit week, a carnival week, even a secret-agent week! The fantastic fun kicks off the week of May 27 (although we are closed on May [...]

Today kicks off Teacher Appreciation Week for many schools, and we hope you’ve found some clever and creative ways to thank your educators for all of their dedication and hard work. In case you are stuck on what to do, here’s an idea: Ask each student to bring in a flower—it can be store-bought, home-picked, [...]

Best wishes to all Florida students who are beginning FCAT testing today. May your brains and pencils stay sharp, and for those of you who will test on computers, may there be no glitches or gripes. Hang tough, kiddos, and show your stuff!

Teacher Appreciation Week is coming up! At most schools, May 6 kicks off 5 days of honoring our hard-working educators, and we think it’s never too soon to start chatting about clever and crafty ways to say we care. We love the idea of secretly decorating teachers’ classroom doors for a Monday morning surprise and [...]

Grammarly Lite! Download it for free web-related editing. The service will check your emails, Facebook and Twitter posts, Google docs, and more. As long as the little green circle shows in the bottom right corner of your text, you’re good. When the circle turns red, you’ve got errors — look for red markings within your copy, [...]

We’ve got a family competition going in our house, and it focuses on learning (shhh, don’t tell our kids). We started realizing that we could optimize our time together by imparting wisdom that may or may not be covered in schools (did you know cursive writing is not in the curriculum anymore at some schools? [...]

If you’re a “Parenthood” fan and you watched the show on Tuesday, you know of the controversy surrounding the vending machines in Max’s school. If you did not watch, here’s a quick recap: Max ran for class president because he wanted to bring back the vending machines that the PTA folks had removed in the [...]

My sixth-grader was the first in our family to discover Quizlet — he found it by way of a friend, and he used the online resource to plug in practice test questions and answers so he could quiz himself at home in preparation for tests at school. He’s used the freebie program a few times, [...]

There is nothing difficult about these six common-sense study tips, and if kids could find a way to embrace them (perhaps with a little parent assistance), they’d be primed for student success. First up — pay attention. Then — take good notes. Of course — plan ahead for tests and projects. And — break down [...]

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