In The News June 2012 Vol. 15-6
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We've been busy
during the month serving our subscribers and parents, editing lesson
modules and preparing for a great future. We continue to grow in
spite of the economy. While most of our subscribers are those
educating their children from home, we have worked with many schools
and tutoring agencies and continue to be called back to provide
services for them. So at this mid-year we wish to thank all of you who have provided support and
encouragement to us. Our mission remains simple, to provide
choices for parents and children for learning. We believe the
Internet offers educational solutions that we haven't Without fail, once
June descends upon us, cold weather is a long ago memory and indeed we
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Registration for the special pricing for Credit Recovery and Summer School will close the end June. Don't let your student fall behind in coursework during the summer months. Continued learning over the summer keeps minds active and there is no learner gap when students return to studies in the Fall. If you would like more information call 877-687-7200.
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The Summer is just starting! Do you enjoy writing? Are you looking for ways to earn a little extra this summer? Have you got topics of interest you want to teach to your students and share with others? Summer is the time when Knowledge Headquarters expands, rewrites and improves upon the instructional content of eTutor. If you are interested in being a part of our Circle of Writers login to www.lessonpro.net and sign up to write lesson modules. Every lesson module you create can be used by you and your students. Knowledge HQ reimburses writers for exceptional lesson modules that follow our guidelines and will add value to the eTutor program. For more information email: admin@knowledgehq.com |
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Life is an attitude. Have a good one. Eric L. Lundgaard |
Noah Blumenthal, Be The Hero |
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Children thrive on heart-felt praise and recognition from their loved ones, and those who grow up knowing they are valued and enjoyed are more receptive to love; they are comfortable with positive feedback and they can give and receive affection naturally and easily. Some children grow up never hearing honest words of love from their parents. They are suspicious of compliments and uncomfortable with positive recognition; they lack self-esteem. Children who are accustomed to constant negativity in the home have difficulty accepting the slightest praise; they get anxious and nervous as though they are unable to let love in. A child needs to hear that you enjoy being his/her parent. Adapted from Wonderful Ways to Love a Child, by Judy Ford
Creativity cannot be taught as facts are memorized but it may flourish under conditions that give first consideration to understanding the individual and her/his uniqueness. Be familiar with what has been done so as to utilize past discoveries. This implies that education and research must not dull the creative spirit or inhibit the imagination of the individual. Cultures and subcultures frequently tend to impose a bias through what they believe they know and may insist on passing down information and assumptions that hinder creativity. Children need background knowledge but they also need to be taught to ask continually, What do you mean?" and "How do you know?" Accurate
information, authenticity and being current are necessities if
creativity is to be nurtured with background knowledge. As one
researcher points out, "Tradition gives us a sense of stability
and continuity, innovation a sense of discovery and adaptation to new
problems...we first start to solve any problem whatsoever by seeing
whether we do not already possess the answer...The next step would
probably be that of attempting to solve it in terms of knowledge
already acquired, that is, through tradition or custom. If this
does n Adapted from Public School Administrator |
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Reading is an interactive process; it involves combining information inside the head (i.e., prior knowledge) with information outside the head (i.e., the written message) to create meaning. From birth on, parents can develop a child's prior knowledge. The development begins with oral language. A parent can model movements and words for an infant. Simple activities, such as "pat-a-cake" and "This little pig went to market "will encourage infants to imitate the parent. Some parents choose to perpetuate "baby talk "by responding to an infant with baby talk. Natural speech prepares the child for language she or he will meet on the printed page. The use of natural speech does not negate parental warmth and affection. Infant attempts to imitate words should be praised. As a child begins to
talk,, the parent should help the child broaden his or her
vocabulary. Sensory experiences provide opportunities to
introduce descriptive words ("This peanut butter is sticky").
Even a mundane outing, such as going to a supermarket, can expand
vocabulary ("This is celery," "Look at this As the child builds background knowledge through experiences, the way in which a parent talks to the child about the experiences can affect vocabulary acquisition, concept development, and the ability to remember the experiences. Experts agree that the most important thing a parent can do to build prior knowledge (requisite for later success in reading) is to read aloud to a child. Reading aloud is most beneficial when the child actively participates. Set aside a specific time every day to read to your child. Adapted from Silver Burdett and Ginn |
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It's the Message....Not the Medium Kathleen was like many a headstrong teenager: She avoided direct heart-to-heart talks with adults, which flummoxed her mother. How would Kathleen learn important life lessons? Whose values would she adopt? How could her daughter navigate all the influences in her life without a little guidance? Finally, a solution surfaced. One day on her dresser, Kathleen found an index card with the phrase "Rules of Conduct" written on the top in her mother's handwriting. The "rules" were simple:
Kathleen
cringed. She didn't like her mother being in her room and she
didn't like her mother knowing that she hadn't always followed those
"Rules of Yet the "Rules of Conduct" lingered in Kathleen's memory, and more than once she took the card out to read them again. In fact, she has the card even today. "That card has moved with me and my socks many times in the years since Mom place it on my dresser," Kathleen says now. "The card has aged, as we all have, but it is still in my sock drawer." Shaping our children's character and communicating our values to them can be challenging. But it doesn't have to be complicated. As Kathleen and her mother discovered, even an index card can do the job. Adapted from the Detroit Free Press |
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Walking is a great way to add exercise to your family's day. With the warm summer weather, maybe your are thinking about stepping up the pace. Here are some ways to do it:
Looking for a pretty setting for a hike? For suggestions, visit the Rails-to-Trials Conservancy, a national nonprofit organization. Once on the site, scroll down to "Find Trails by State." Adapted from Blue Cross Blue Shield |
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Keorapetse
Kgositsile, Poet and Political Activist |
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Mr.
Pitonyak's Pyramid Puzzle:
This site features an interdisciplinary Web-based project designed for
middle school math students to determine how much it would cost to
build an Egyptian pyramid today. MathMol:
From the New York University Scientific Visualization Laboratory,
MathMol (Mathematics and Molecules) is designed to serve as an
introductory starting point for those interested in the field of
molecular modeling. Includes Hypermedia Textbooks and K-12 Activities. JigZone.com:
You and your children can make online, interactive jigsaw puzzles. If
you just want to access the examples given by the website, feel free
to play with the puzzles in many different configurations. If you
subscribe (no charge at this time), you can create your own puzzles
from images uploaded from your computer. Global
Sun/Temperature Project:
Collaborate with schools throughout the world to determine how
temperature and hours of sunlight per day are affected by your
location and the equator. Involves general science, mathematics,
language arts, and geography. They recommend upper elementary, middle
school and high school students (ages 11-18). Students will: a)
measure the temperature and record the number of minutes of sunlight
per day; b) compare and contrast the results; and c) determine how
proximity to the equator affects average daily temperature and hours
of sunlight. There is NO FEE required to join this project. Sponsored
by Center for Improved Engineering and Science Education (CIESE).
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work, then one can either resign oneself to mystery or set up a new
hypothesis to cover the matter. The painter, the sculptor, the
musician, the scientist, always has the choice of accepting the
problems of his predecessors, stating them and solving them in their
terms or of perceiving new problems as real and solving them in new
terms."
Reading
Begins at Home
big peach"). Simple outings do more than increase
vocabulary. They give a child important background knowledge
requisite for understanding stories that the child will encounter in
school.
Conduct." She quickly hid the card in her sock drawer.
