ShutterstockIf you’re schooling your children at home, chances are you’re very time poor. By teaching your children to cook, you could bundle up some learning while also getting dinner or lunch prepared. Teaching children to cook healthy food helps them gain knowledge and skills across a range of subjects simultaneously. The bonus is, you could get a healthy meal prepared as well. By focusing on nutritious recipes you’ll also address personal development, health and physical education topics. Read more: What is homeschooling? And should I be doing that with my kid during the coronavirus lockdown? Why cooking? Being able to apply maths and science concepts to everyday situations helps develop self-confidence in daily activities. Learning to follow a recipe and...
Elementary school takes kids from The Book With No Pictures to Harry Potter in the blink of an eye. The best books for grade schoolers include chapter books, series and easy readers that grow along with them.You might long to see your grade schooler curled up with the classics you loved. (Are you there, God? It’s me, cramming this book down your throat.) But literacy experts say it’s important for kids to have a say over their choice of reading. Often as not, that’s going to lead them to graphic novels. Don’t fight it! Some parents sneer that graphic novels aren’t “real” books, but they are in fact an excellent tool for emerging literacy. And don’t be too eager to let go...
Discovery Education today launched its newest digital service—Coding—which supports coding education at the elementary and middle school levels. With this cool tool, students are inspired to learn important coding concepts like algorithms, sequences, and variables as they develop computational thinking skills through decomposition, logical reasoning, and problem solving. Based in part on the award-winning Discovery Education Coding service used by teachers across the U.K., the U.S. version of Coding features a wide array of block coding resources that help students take coding from concept to reality. Providing an intuitive graphical approach to coding where students drag and drop events, objects, and actions to create and run a program, Coding’s block coding resources help students build their own games and apps....
