What Is Print Awareness And Why Is It Important For Young Learners?
What is print awareness? We share what you need to know about this important skill.
Core Skills
The essentials for school and life, like reading, writing, math, and physical milestones like learning to tie shoes
Your MAIL ADVENTURE Printables: Letter Prompts
Your MAIL ADVENTURE Printables: Letter Prompts
These letter prompts so you can provide another way to stay in touch! Print them on regular printer paper, and get busy writing!
Repetitive Storytelling Benefits for Children: Learning and Joy
Repetitive Storytelling Benefits for Children: Learning and Joy
It is not just OK that a child wants to hear the same story repeatedly, it’s terrific! It might be a bit tedious for you, but it is extremely beneficial for your child. Parent Tip: Wanting to hear a story over and over again means that the characters and the...
How to Get Your Child to Pay Attention When Learning Their ABCs!
How to Get Your Child to Pay Attention When Learning Their ABCs!
Do you often ask, "How can I make my child pay attention when I try to teach the alphabet?" Well, there are two main reasons why young children fail to pay attention when adults try to teach them about the alphabet. For some children, the task seems abstract — why...
4 Reasons To Listen To Music With Your Kids
4 Reasons To Listen To Music With Your Kids
Check out this amazing playlist and have some fun listening to your favorite tunes with your kids!
Teachers Give 5 Tips For Keeping A Clean Desk
Teachers Give 5 Tips For Keeping A Clean Desk
Before coming to HOMER to work on the Learning Team, I spent 8 years as a preschool teacher in New York City. Let’s face it, the teacher’s desk can sometimes become a catchall place for everything under the sun. One of my main struggles was keeping my desk clean...
My Child Believes He Is a Terrible Reader and Refuses Even to Try. What Can I Do?
My Child Believes He Is a Terrible Reader and Refuses Even to Try. What Can I Do?
Q&A with Peggy Kaye, HOMER’s Chief Curriculum Officer Many children feel that unless they read with the fluency of adults, then they are bad readers. Other children see classmates having an easier time learning to read and it makes them insecure. Children...
What Can I Do to Help My Child Love Reading?
What Can I Do to Help My Child Love Reading?
Q&A with Peggy Kaye, HOMER’s Chief Curriculum Officer Children who love books and stories before they are readers are very likely to love reading. Children who get lost in stories they hear, who imagine characters and feel for the problems characters face, are...
Spooky Halloween Scavenger Hunt
Spooky Halloween Scavenger Hunt
Find tricks and treats around the neighborhood with this Spooky Halloween Scavenger Hunt!
Homework 101
Homework 101
Written by Peggy Kaye, HOMER’s Chief Curriculum Officer Featured in KIDBOX’s The Scribble Newspaper All too often, homework turns peaceful evenings into fighting matches between parents and kids. What can be done to stop the arguments? Here are a few ideas from our...
8 Tips to Keep Kids Loving Reading in a World of Test Prep
8 Tips to Keep Kids Loving Reading in a World of Test Prep
We hope these tipsl help your family keep the spirit of reading alive and well in your home, even as the pressures of standardized testing mount.
Perfect Car Games While on the Road
Perfect Car Games While on the Road
Homer’s experts have prepared a cheat sheet to help make traveling with kids enjoyable and educational!
The Perfect Balance: Using Online Learning to Inspire Offline Play
The Perfect Balance: Using Online Learning to Inspire Offline Play
By HOMER Mom Ambassador Rachael Harris As a homeschool mom of three children, ranging from 19 months to 6 years old, with an early childhood education background, I’m a bit obsessed with a few key ingredients in raising healthy, successful children. Building great...