by Dr. Jody Sherman LeVos | Oct 20, 2023 | Creativity
Winter means it’s time for snowball fights, sledding, and snowmen! And for the days when there’s nothing to do outside, we’ve got fun and educational indoor winter kids activities that help build Creativity, one of the 5 C’s at the heart of the Begin Approach to...
by Dr. Jody Sherman LeVos | Oct 18, 2023 | Core Skills
There are 26 letters in the alphabet, and they all map to sounds. But some sounds, including frequent ones like /th/ and /ch/, are created using multiple letters. Taken together, letters and those multi-letter combinations are called phonograms. When kids learn them,...
by Dr. Jody Sherman LeVos | Oct 16, 2023 | Core Skills
Kids don’t just go from chewing on books as babies to reading all at once. Between the two comes the stage of emergent literacy—an essential part of building Core Skills, one of the 5 C’s at the heart of the Begin Approach to helping kids thrive in school and life....
by Dr. Jody Sherman LeVos | Oct 13, 2023 | Things to Do
Raising kids isn’t cheap. And raising them in Houston’s bustling metropolitan center of the arts, culture and food? Even less so. But even in Houston, fun family activities don’t have to cost a bundle. These 50 free things to do in the city (and the...
by Dr. Jody Sherman LeVos | Oct 13, 2023 | Things to Do
While raising a family in an urban area is never exactly cheap, Washington, D.C., parents are lucky—our nation’s capital is full of free fun thanks to the awesome Smithsonian museums and the city’s many historic landmarks. And that’s great, because...