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Home Connection
Winter is here! The winter solstice is December 21. In honor of the shortest day of the year, we're giving you seven short activities your preschool students can complete in a jiff.
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Teaching Tips, Home Connection
Keeping kids cooped up during winter break can lead to cabin fever! Try these fun cursive activities with your students, so they can stay busy while practicing cursive!
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Teaching Tips, Home Connection
Happy National Letter Writing Day! Today is a great opportunity for educators to create innovative and exciting lesson plans for handwriting and literacy.
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In the News, Announcements
Happy Thanksgiving! Today is all about taking a break to spend time with friends and family, and to express gratitude for all the good things in life.
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Teaching Tips
Happy Universal Children’s Day! Each year on November 20, we celebrate Universal Children’s Day, joining people from around the country and world to promote togetherness and awareness among children worldwide.
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In the News
Learning Without Tears is reporting live from NAEYC!
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In the News, Teaching Tips, Multisensory Learning
What was your favorite book growing up? Do you remember how excited you felt when you knew it was time to read it yet again, staring at the images for hours all while your imagination soared and your young vocabulary grew? Today is Young Reader’s Day, a time dedicated to passing the same love of literacy down to your students.
3 minutes
Home Connection, In the News
Today, we are thankful for veterans. For over 200 years, members of the US Armed Forces have dedicated their lives to protecting the United States and ensuring that the rights and liberties of its people are upheld.
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In the News, Announcements
Many schools across the country today are closed as people head to the polls to cast their votes in the midterm elections—the second-most exciting election year (next to the presidential elections)!
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