Traveling with children can be challenging, especially when they are forced to sit in a car for hours. These road trip tips will break up the monotony and keep everyone entertained. Having a good selection of activities can mean the difference between fun and disaster.   Road Trip Tip #1 / Travel Coupons Make ahead [...]

Screen-Free Week (formerly TV-Turnoff) is the annual celebration where children, families, schools, and communities turn off screens and turn on life.   Screen-Free Week is a wonderful way to help children lead healthier, happier lives by reducing dependence on entertainment screen media-including television, video games, computers, and hand-held devices.  By encouraging children and families to [...]

In the classroom, teachers use a variety of incentives and rewards to encourage positive behaviors. At home, parents can use this to their advantage too! Incentives help boost your child’s self-esteem as they reward effort and acknowledge accomplishments. Children are motivated to keep trying if they feel like they are making progress toward their goals [...]

What’s a toy that consists of colorful interlocking plastic bricks and an accompanying array of gears, mini-figures and various other parts? It can be assembled and connected in many ways, to construct such objects as vehicles, buildings, and even working robots. Anything constructed can then be taken apart again, and the pieces used to make [...]

3rd Annual Run the D.O.G. St. a 5 K race and I mile fun run, Saturday, April 14, 2012. School Crossing is partnering with Colonial Sports by sponsoring the Kids 1 Mile Fun Run. The race begins at 7:00 am before the 5 K main event. The scenic course runs through Historic Duke of Gloucester [...]

Can you believe it? It’s already time to celebrate Dr. Seuss birthday! The NEA’s Read Across America is an annual reading motivation and awareness program that calls for every child in every community to celebrate reading on March 2, the birthday of beloved children’s author Dr. Seuss. To show your colors, we got what you [...]

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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