Virginia SOL Coach resource books give your students focused instruction and practice on the Virginia Standards of Learning and prepare them for the state test! You’ll diagnose, instruct, practice, and assess all in one book! ACHIEVE with Coach! 100% standards aligned & proven to raise SOL scores.   Reading, English, Writing, Math, Science, History, Virginia [...]

If you are a parent or grandparent who includes gift giving in your celebration of the holidays, you are probably familiar with the enthusiastic reaction kids have when they see piles of brightly wrapped packages waiting to be opened. Those moments of hyper-charged anticipation when excited children can barely contain themselves—just before the pandemonium begins—add [...]

Taming Your Child’s “Must-Have” Monster Any parent who has handled a temper tantrum in a toy store knows the feeling of wanting to fade into the wallpaper until their child’s episode of the “gimmes” is a distant memory. The insistent desire for a particular toy—usually one that heavily advertised or the “must have” item of [...]

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Doctor’s Orders: Kids Need to Play Play is so simple, yet it has such a big impact on children’s healthy growth and development. Parents know it. Teachers know it. And now pediatricians have weighed in with an official opinion about it. What’s the big consensus? Kids need regular doses of constructive play for healthy development, [...]

Back to Basics Do you remember how much fun it was to play jacks, marbles, pickup sticks, hula hooping, yoyos, jump ropes, cat’s cradle? Teach your children and or grandchildren what real fun these activities are. These tried and true old time activities not only stimulate creativity but also build coordination, interaction and communication skills. [...]

Got a fussy eater in your house? Make sport out of eating broccoli! Try “Kyle’s Lucky Vegetables” a dinner game*: – A great way to get kids to eat their veggies! – Grab a single dice and have the youngest player roll it. – Whatever number you roll is the number of veggies (or other healthy [...]

Story time – For a bedtime story If you need a change in your child’s bedtime routine, we have a great way to make this time unique and exciting. “Tell Tale” by Blue Orange Games has 120 image cards that will help you tell the best stories ever. Parents and Grandparents can improvise a story [...]

School stops for summer…Learning never should! “Did you know that many children experience learning loss when they do not engage in educational activities during the summer?” So says Brenda McLaughlin and Sarah Pitcock of the National Summer Learning Association. “This means that some of what they have spent time learning over the preceding school year [...]

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