Saturday, April 13, 2019

So Many Things Happening... I'm Going To Live On On Boob Tube Side Yesteryear Side Monday!

Hey everyone!  I am in addition to hence excited.  It was a busy weekend emailing in addition to calling people close my Kickstarter (only 17 days left!).  I did a publicity workshop alongside Clint Arthur where I've learned a lot of tips in addition to how-to of getting on local TV tidings stations.  He actually wants to run across his students succeed in addition to acquire their message out.  On Mon at that spot was an implementation 24-hour interval where nosotros called producers for v hours straight.  Doing the calls inwards a grouping setting helped me to hold calling--not certain I would choose continued for such a long fourth dimension at home.  I made close 50-60 calls during that fourth dimension but didn't choose a corporation booking.

But yesterday (Tuesday), the producer from ABC 4 inwards Salt Lake called me back.  We ironed out the details through a few emails in addition to I'm booked to practise a segment on the 11:00 tidings Monday, Jan 19th!  I'll endure showing my majority (The Pancake Menu) in addition to Kickstarter alongside this segment "How to Turn Pancakes into Hands-on Math Fun!"  You'll acquire to run across how slowly it is to acquire kids excited close math, simply yesteryear playing eating seat alongside my majority in addition to talking close math piece making a recipe : )

After that I may endure going to Kingsport, TN too.  I'm all the same ironing out the details.  My sugariness in-laws tin exclusively lookout adult man my kids for in addition to hence long...

The other tidings is that I choose a local consequence railroad train alongside a friend of mine that has a corking Castilian for kids 24-hour interval care/after schoolhouse identify inwards Redondo Beach.  I'll endure at My Escuelita Saturday, Jan 24th from 4:00-5:30 reading my book, making pancakes alongside kids, in addition to doing a hands-on activeness alongside card coin the kids volition love.  I'm trying to acquire local tidings to come upward to that, but living inwards Los Angeles makes it harder to acquire onto the tidings (but I'm all the same calling in addition to reminding them).

Yay!  I'm in addition to hence excited to endure bringing you lot my majority that has been inwards the plant for sooooo long!

The fundraising to impress the hardcovers exclusively goes on until the cease of the calendar month (January 2015), in addition to hence pledge today in addition to present your back upward for fun math teaching for kids.

Danica Mckellar Tweeted Most My Hands-On Fun Math Book!

I'm then excited!  Actress Danica McKellar tweeted to her fans close my book!  She was Winnie Cooper inwards The Wonder Years exhibit years ago.  She is a big math supporter (with the degrees to examine it) too has quite a few dandy books for middle schoolhouse girls close how math is fun too everywhere approximately us.

I know how much kids tin savor math when it is a fun experience.  Kids dearest to solve problems too explore.  Let's brand The Pancake Menu teach funded on Kickstarter then kids tin convey the mass too play alongside it.

There are alone 16 days left for the Kickstarter too if the destination of $20,000 is non reached past times the cease of Jan I can't make the books for you.  Don't wait!  Kickstarter mightiness endure novel to you.  All pledges don't teach charged until later the stimulate is successful reaching the goal!  If the destination isn't reached, no coin is charged.

So, say it from the rooftops--we postulate this hands-on math mass for kids!  Help teach inwards happen!  Pledge too alternative your vantage (a re-create of the book, or other cool rewards) NOW too say your friends.  Without your assistance the printing of the mass volition endure delayed.  So, if you lot haven't already, pledge too exhibit your back upward past times becoming a backer! : )

Thanks everyone!

2 Days, Two Telly Appearances (Salt Lake, Ut & Kingsport, Tn)

Hey everyone,

It has been a fun in addition to really busy commencement of the calendar week for me!  I was thence happy to accept booked to a greater extent than or less TV appearances amongst my majority that is on Kickstarter.  There are entirely eleven days left, thence banking concern jibe it out in addition to portion thence it tin locomote funded : )  Pledges create non teach charged until the movement is over AND it has reached the funding goal.

On sun I flew into Salt Lake in addition to inward the morning time on Mon I went to the ABC studio...  Here are a few pictures, ane from my sentiment from the kitchen in addition to the other is my sentiment of my kitchen setup.

They were thence slap-up at the studio in addition to the segment turned out great!  I didn't teach to beak well-nigh Kickstarter every bit much every bit I wanted, only I yet intend it was a slap-up segment.  Click on the link in addition to banking concern jibe it out--feel costless to portion it too!

About an hr subsequently leaving the studio I was dorsum at the aerodrome to wing out to Tennesseee.  I flew into Atlanta, GA in addition to thence took a smaller bird into Tri-Cities, TN.  Everything went smoothly, only I entirely had vi hours of slumber since I needed to locomote at the ABC nineteen studio inward Kingsport yesteryear 7:45 this morning.  It turned out great!  There was a slight miscommunication well-nigh having kids on the set.  She idea I would locomote bringing them in addition to I idea they would accept a brace of local kids there.  It was a super brusk segment there, thence I intend it volition locomote fine that no kids are shown playing amongst the card money.  If soul wants to come across kids playing amongst the coin they tin sentinel the Kickstarter video : )  Rachel in addition to I had a lot of fun making the pancakes in addition to it was fun to come across how much fun the adults liked my majority too!


Now I am dorsum at the TRI aerodrome waiting to wing to Atlanta in addition to dorsum dwelling to Los Angeles : )  Thanks for all your encouraging words in addition to back upward on my writing venture.  I can't await to accept this slap-up hands-on math engaging majority for kids.  They volition dearest it!

The Pancake Menu is scheduled on Amazon to locomote released mid Feburary every bit a Kindle book, only the Kickstarter movement is for pre-orders of hardcover books, only it is entirely for a express fourth dimension (it runs through Jan 31, 2015).  I promise yous tin assistance it fund in addition to assistance spread the word.

Thanks,

Two Invitee Weblog Posts For My Mass : )

I was then excited to live highlighted past times a duad blogs lastly week.  I've been then busy, I finally larn to write a fleck close it!

The Pen & Ink weblog is mainly followed past times writers.  I am happy to know most of the authors of that grouping weblog as well as they are swell people as well as amazing writers.  The link to that post service is correct here: My Journey to Kickstarter as well as Self Publishing

I got to portion close why I chose to run a Kickstarter to help me give away my mass likewise every bit roughly of the sources as well as plans of how I volition live publishing independently.

The side past times side weblog I was featured inwards is a instructor who constitute me on Twitter @KidsRead09 .  She made a pocket-size Q&A weblog post service entitled: The Pancake Menu: Engaging Math Games.

The business office I dearest most close that invitee post service is she asked which Common Core standards tin plough over the sack live taught amongst The Pancake Menu.  The respond is... SO MANY!!!  Check out that post service as well as run into all the CCSS I identified tin plough over the sack live taught using my book--K-5!

If you lot desire a re-create of the book, hurry as well as jump on Kickstarter to pledge for a hard-cover book.  Please spread the give-and-take then it tin plough over the sack live funded.  Thanks!

Kickstarter Ending, Preparing For Relaunch, As Well As Kindle Laid Upward For Amazon Pre-Order!

It's been a chip over a week, but I've been difficult at operate working on finishing touches of the majority for the print-run, thanking my backers on Kickstarter, in addition to preparing the in conclusion file for the Kindle version.  Whew!

First off, my Kickstarter simply has today in addition to tomorrow to fund.  I intend I laid my goal a chip high, in addition to then when I relaunch I volition larn for a lower amount.  I'm thinking $3-5,000 range.  Here is my video, which y'all withal tin dorsum (until tomorrow).



And in that location is withal this giveaway if y'all portion it...

a Rafflecopter giveaway

The other exciting tidings is that the Kindle majority tin right away last pre-ordered from Amazon!
Yay!  I am working alongside the printer on hardcovers in addition to I accept my free engagement laid at July 18th.  I accept my Library of Congress Control Number all railroad train in addition to the barcode in addition to ISBN ready...

I accept to demonstrate y'all a sneak peek at the entire cover... it's in addition to then great!

Back to operate for me.  If anyone wants to accept me equally a invitee blogger on their spider web log during my relaunch of the Kickstarter, I'd last thrilled.  Planned duration is February 13-Mar 4. : )

Friday, April 12, 2019

Taxes Submitted, Immediately One Tin Locomote Perhaps Expire To Other Stuff

Spent ALL 24-hour interval on taxes... ugh, simply yay for finishing my end!  Now I tin intend most other stuff...


  • Getting the rewards to my giveaway winners.
  • Revamping the novel Kickstarter campaign.
  • Planning together with goal setting for 2015.


And likely another materials too, simply my encephalon inward a piddling burnt out subsequently crunching all the revenue enhancement information together with adding upward receipts.

I promise yous are accept a swell 24-hour interval : )

Publishing For Education... Hither Nosotros Come!

My new Kickstarter campaign is upwards in addition to running!


There are exclusively 3 weeks to fund!  I'd appreciate whatever social sharing in addition to support!

The Pancake Menu: What volition yous order? is a fun, education, in addition to interactive mass for 6-11 yr olds that helps them usage math equally they play restaurant!

Have a dandy day!

If Danica Mckellar Tin Accept A Pair Minutes Out Of Her 24-Hour Interval To Retweet Almost My Book

If Danica McKellar tin move produce got a dyad minutes out of her twenty-four hours to retweet most my book, in addition to therefore tin move you!
I promise everyone is having a non bad International Pancake Day!  Please attention spread tidings most this fun, interactive mass for kids! It's the best of both worlds, instruction in addition to food! Link: http://kck.st/1Mj2922


 Thanks!

Kickstarter Update For The Masses : )

Hey Everyone,

My 2d endeavor at running a Kickstarter entirely has ix to a greater extent than days!  : )  This fourth dimension I am funded together with hoping to surpass the 1st attempt's numbers.  With the smaller funding destination nosotros were able to teach inwards a successful campaign.

If yous don't already know almost my book, The Pancake Menu, I invite yous to cheque it out together with part it.


Life has been busy lately amongst kids together with around of their things, together with therefore I haven't been able to spider web log every bit much every bit I invention to.

The rewards offered amongst this Kickstarter may never move available again, together with therefore if yous are interested inwards getting the coin pack, apron, spatula--you mightiness desire to see it spell yous tin flaming : )

Thanks together with therefore much for next my publishing adventure.  BTW, I was researching distribution the other solar daytime together with it is expensive!  I mean value I may postulate to personally handgrip distribution for a spell together with therefore in that location is around lucre made on the book.  Seriously, if distribution gets 30%, stores purchase the mass at 50% of the price, together with the mass itself costs to impress together with send places... that leaves 0% for me : (  But, if yous know of whatsoever adept mass distributors, I'm all ears.

I promise yous convey a wonderful day!

Guest Weblog Shipping Service Amongst Corinne Jacob: Dissimilar & Fun Ways To Brand Your Child Beloved Math

Hello Everyone,
Today I accept Corinne from Alternate Tutelage sharing her ideas to brand math fun together with exciting for kids! 

Different & Fun Ways to Make your Child Love Math

Kids who cope amongst math oftentimes pass their entire academic lives thinking of math equally a horrible monster that volition never become away. Making such kids dear math tin live challenging, together with then I position together this listing of dissimilar fun ways to brand your pocket-sized autumn inwards dear math.
N is for Negative” yesteryear Angelia Sims, licensed nether CC BY SA 2.0

Math Activities

Whether it’s a hot summer’s afternoon, a long hold off at the dentist’s or a seemingly endless route trip, whatever fourth dimension is a nifty fourth dimension to larn math. Encourage your pocket-sized to explore the fascinating mathematical concepts that are institute inwards nature – shapes, sizes together with symmetry of leaves; counting the numbers together with kinds of trees inwards your street; learning the dissimilar shapes together with patterns inwards flowers – together with and then on. 
Your footling mathematician volition happily larn math if it is presented to him inwards the shape of fun activities. Identify the variety of activities he or she enjoys together with integrate math into it. For instance, if your pocket-sized loves to laid upward or bake, permit him mensurate the ingredients, count items together with gauge the amount of fourth dimension required to laid upward specific things.

Math Games

There are diverse kinds of games that indirectly aid kids larn to a greater extent than or less aspect of math. They are effective because your pocket-sized is to a greater extent than opened upward to learning when he’s having fun together with wants to locomote on doing whatever he’s doing. Math games come upward inwards dissimilar forms – board games, online math games, card games, video games, puzzles, active playground games, etc. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 well-designed math game allows players of all science levels to participate together with learn. They tin instruct novel concepts or permit kids practise previously learned concepts. Math games are your best friend if yous desire to brand the plain of written report interesting together with aid your pocket-sized lose their inhibitions when they've engaged uncomplicated or advanced mathematical tasks. Talk close motivation!

Math-themed Books

Share books together with stories that accept mathematical themes only are too proficient entertainment. Big Fat Hen by K. Baker, for instance, features a hen that lays eggs whose numbers become upward 2 until they accomplish a full of ten. Mrs.McTats together with her Houseful of Cats yesteryear A. Capucilli talks close how Mrs. McTats adopts cats inwards multiples until she has 25 cats inwards her house. D. A. Carter’s How Many Bugs inwards a Box is all close measurements. Once your pocket-sized starts enjoying math-themed stories, he volition live able to encounter the underlying math inwards whatever book, inwards add-on to developing a dear for reading.
Did these ideas operate for you? I’d dear to remove heed close your experiences amongst kids together with math!
Author Bio:  Corinne Jacob is a wannabe author who is convinced that kids larn best when they’re having fun. She is constantly on the sentinel for novel together with exciting ways to brand learning an enjoyable experience. Corinne loves all things that hollo out un-schooling, option instruction together with holistic learning.
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Thanks for your insights!  I can't hold off until my books come upward out together with then they tin live on your Math-themed majority list!  The Pancake Menu volition live coming out July 2015

I'm Going To Live On On Proficient Forenoon America!!!

Whoa!  I can't believe it... side yesteryear side calendar week I'll last on Good Morning America alongside my book--The Pancake Menu.


I ran the Kickstarter inward March in addition to a producer of Good Morning America contacted me terminal weekend if I'd desire to submit my production to last considered to last on a segment of Good Morning America where they bring a host of Shark Tank come upward on in addition to heed to 2 products pitches in addition to the shark says which 1 he (or she) would back.

It's official that I'll last going!  I'm so, SO excited (and a flake nervous at the same time)!

I'll crusade in addition to boot the bucket on y'all posted : )  In the hateful time, I got my mass sample from my printer in addition to we're adept to larn on production.  Books volition last inward my hands mid June, gear upward for the July release!

My Skilful Morning Time America Appearance As Well As Mass Update!

It's been a few weeks... I did keen on my brief segment on Good Morning America! Here is the segment inwards illustration y'all wanted to run into it : )
ABC News Videos | ABC Entertainment News  http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/shark-tank-life-products-kids-30553594.

Right later the demo the lack of sleeping good took a terms on me in addition to I was sick for a while, actually needing to residuum up. With back upwards from solid unit of measurement in addition to friends I am almost dorsum to my normal, active self (Yay!!!).  I am thence excited most my mass coming out!

It is alongside the printer at i time in addition to volition hold out create to hold out distributed past times it's July unloosen appointment : ) You tin nevertheless pre-order an autographed re-create at...
 I did keen on my brief segment on Good Morning America My Good Morning America appearance in addition to mass update!
Thank y'all for your back upwards of math pedagogy in addition to super hands-on fun!

I create post updates of the mass on my Kickstarter page.  Thanks for next along my exciting publishing journey! I did bring roughly ideas to brand my MaTh (math activeness Thursday) a fun video linky party!  Things simply postulate to settle a fleck to a greater extent than in addition to thence I should hold out create to larn dorsum to the weekly/bi-weekly link-up.

Take tending everyone!

Meeting In Addition To Thanking Reading Rainbow's Levar Burton!

A calendar week earlier going on Good Morning America I was at the LA Times Festival of Books at USC in addition to I got to accept a lot of fun, catch some corking books, in addition to encounter LeVar Burton (from Reading Rainbow, Star Trek, in addition to more!).

It was a corking day...
 It was at the University of Southern California campus, which I'm really familiar with... Like I mentioned, I got to encounter some amazing authors/illustrators in addition to other corking people.  Here is Travis Hanson, writer & illustrator, who runs Bean Leaf Press


I walked roughly much of the solar daytime checking out the booths in addition to telling some of the friends of mine I saw that solar daytime close the exciting intelligence close going on GMA inward close a week.

LeVar Burton had a lecture hall amount of people to catch him verbalize in addition to I was really impressed amongst his book.  He has a corking mental attitude in addition to his kindness in addition to genuineness was prissy to see.  I met a fun in addition to every-so-kind friend that day.  We happened to sit down side yesteryear side to each other inward the lecture hall in addition to she liked my majority cover.  I told her close my majority in addition to nosotros were presently corking buddies : )  Funny how that happens sometimes, just Karla was in addition to then awesome!  She's been a big fan of Reading Rainbow since she was little; much similar most of the crowd.

She fifty-fifty took this niggling video of me when I went upward to say LeVar "Thank y'all for running his Kickstarter because..." (I didn't know she was going to cinema it, just form of cool that she was in addition to then sugariness to create that.)

Then outside, Karla in addition to I tag-teamed the lines--I bought 2 books at the bookstore booth, 1 for each of us, spell she waiting inward the signing line.  It was fun in addition to when it became my fourth dimension to briefly larn my majority signed LeVar congratulated me over again close the GMA segment.  He said, "Getting on national television set is HUGE!"  I agree!  I'm in addition to then happy I could give thank y'all him in addition to exhibit him my book!
Fun to larn these pictures likewise : ) Our books... come upward to life amongst great Kickstarter backers : )

Right afterwards that I went to attempt out in addition to shipping my majority off to NY since they wanted the majority ASAP, just it didn't operate out just since they needed the majority yesteryear Tuesday morning time in addition to concluding pickup was a brace hours previous to my attempted drib off that Saturday.

Thanks for reading!

Thursday, April 11, 2019

5 Fun Ways To Learn Your Child Close Patterns

​By: Aradhana Pandey

The minds of footling kids are ever on a bespeak to acquire novel things. The teachings together with values that you lot impart to your kid during his formative years are jump to rest amongst him for a lifetime. The stronger the foundation that you lot laid upwards for your kid today, the to a greater extent than enriched his futurity volition be.

This also holds truthful equally far equally academics are concerned. The to a greater extent than streamlined your approach towards introducing your kid to the alphabet, the meliorate his agreement of languages volition be!

Similarly, when it comes to mathematics, i of the best tools to heighten his agreement of many concepts similar algebra together with strange together with fifty-fifty numbers is through patterns. Here are 5 fun ways you lot tin forcefulness out instruct your kid nearly patterns:

1. Creating Patterned Jewelry – If you lot convey a footling girl, she is certainly going to honey this activity! It offers an first-class fusion of the elements of learning together with fun together! Not alone does this activeness make your kid an agreement of patterns only also colors. It fifty-fifty aids inwards the evolution of their fine motor skills.

Supplies Required:
  • Beads/Fruit Loops inwards 2-3 colors
  • Thread
  • Let your kid detect you lot set the commencement two-three beads/Fruit Loops inwards a thread inwards the blueprint AB, AB or ABC, ABC
  • Let him consummate making the balance of the necklace or bracelet past times next the same blueprint throughout
2. Coloring And Creating Patterns – Does your kid appear to endure sitting bored on a sunny afternoon? Let him instead, indulge inwards a mentally stimulating activeness that’s also extremely enjoyable! While he enjoys doing what he loves best (coloring), he volition also improve his concentration levels together with agreement nearly patterns.

Supplies Required:
  • Three sets of cutouts of dissimilar shaped coloring pages
  • Crayons
  • Let your kid color each of the 3 sets of the shape coloring page cutouts using dissimilar colors
  • Place i laid upwards of the shape cutouts inwards the lodge ABC, ABC together with enquire your kid to house the remaining 2 sets inwards the same lodge land identifying each cutout’s shape together with color 

3. Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Patterned Banner – Party inwards the house? It’s the perfect fourth dimension for you lot to assay this patterned banner making activeness amongst your child! There’s goose egg meliorate than enjoying the festive spirit amongst a footling chip of learning, is there?

Supplies Required: Decorative papers – 3 dissimilar sets
  • Scissors
  • Thread
  • Cut the decorative papers into pocket-sized triangles
  • Start gluing the triangles of dissimilar colors inwards the blueprint AABBCC, AABBCC i past times one, on the thread
  • Ask your kid to proceed to gum the remaining triangles, next the same blueprint you lot made
4. Stamping – Stamping is i of the most exciting ways to instruct your kid nearly patterns. You tin forcefulness out role everything from fruits, veggies, flowers to tiny buttons to practise patterns. What’s meliorate is that stamping also helps hone your child’s artistic flair!

Supplies Required:
  • Non-toxic paints
  • A Irish Gaelic patato together with an apple
  • White canvas of paper
  • Cut a pocket-sized Irish Gaelic patato together with an apple
  • Ask your kid to dip the cutting Irish Gaelic patato together with apple tree into 2 dissimilar colored paints
  • Now allow him postage the Irish Gaelic patato together with apple tree inwards a sequence, making the AB, AB pattern
5. Creating Lego Patterns – Is your footling i a Lego architect? Well then, this activeness is certain to endure a definite hitting amongst him! Use tiny Lego blocks to make your kid an uncomplicated agreement of patterns.

Supplies Required:
  • Lego blocks together with characters
  • Arrange a few Lego blocks inwards the ABCD, ABCD pattern
  • Ask your kid to house the remaining blocks inwards the same order
We’re certain that your kid volition convey fun amongst these activities equally much equally he’ll acquire nearly patterns! Do allow us know which of these activities he liked best inwards the comments section!
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Author Bio
Aradhana is from India. She is a veteran author on topics concerning parenting, kid nutrition, wellness, wellness together with lifestyle. As a regular contributor to pop sites similar Huffington Post, Natural news, Elephant journal, Thehealthsite, Naturally Savvy, Curejoy together with MomJunction.com.  Aradhana writes to inspire together with motivate people to adopt salubrious habits together with alive a stress-free lifestyle.

Thanks for your insights Aradhana!  I know my immature lady enjoyed playing patterns amongst Kid K'Nex
 The minds of footling kids are ever on a bespeak to acquire novel things 5 Fun Ways To Teach Your Child About PatternsThank you lot for visiting today!

$25,000 For A Cool Hands-On Math Activity!!! Hurry, Applications Due May 26Th.

Hey teachers!

Doing interrogation for my majority in addition to potential places for it to survive sold I came across MoMath (The Museum of Mathematics) inwards New York in addition to they convey an awesome challenger for teachers!

You tin win $25,000 for your submission of a fun, hands-on math activity.  I convey i I desire to submit, simply since I am non education at a schoolhouse at a instant I can't enter.  If anyone wants to learn inwards on an application alongside me I'd dearest it!


If yous convey a bully hands-on math activeness for quaternary through eighth graders I intend everyone should enter! Good luck!

Making Math Fun Alongside Iii Unproblematic Tactics!

Today I accept Ivana Craft doing a invitee post.  Thanks for your 3 tardily tactics to brand math fun for kids!
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Let's hold out honest hither - many kids abhor math. They honor it tedious, boring, tiresome... yous advert it. The biggest work they accept amongst math is that they don't empathise it as well as lose involvement quickly. Once they lose interest, it's all downhill from there. Now, the commutation to fixing this is keeping them entertained. As a immature lady working amongst kids, I tin country yous that this is non ever easy. Things are definitely harder inward populace schools, where there's exclusively ane of yous as well as a classroom total of students. Since I mainly function equally a mortal tutor, things accept been relatively tardily for me, but fifty-fifty I had to come upwardly up amongst creative ideas to tumble out kids interested as well as entertained.

Here are a few tried as well as tested ways to brand learning math fun as well as some advantages of homeschooling over the traditional populace schoolhouse system.

Try fun activities


First matter to tumble out inward demand heed hither is that you're going to know the kid you're tutoring much amend than a instructor would know their students inward a populace schoolhouse classroom. This, of course, comes amongst a laid of advantages. As yous acquire to know your kid better, yous start agreement what they like. If they similar cooking, for example, yous tin come upwardly up amongst a math activeness where yous only accept the kid mensurate ingredients, add together as well as subtract the amounts of flour, water, sugar, etc. Also, plough a irksome math query into something to a greater extent than interesting past times adding characters inward the mix, preferably ones from cartoons or video games they like.

Math games

Sometimes the best way to learn a kid math is to fox them into non knowing they're truly learning. There are a lot of online math games, carte games, board games or fifty-fifty puzzles yous tin tumble out nearby and, if the kid is non feeling similar learning math, play those instead. They'll recollect they're exactly having fun, but they'll hold out learning without fifty-fifty knowing so. The tutoring way of teaching is at an wages hither because yous tin exactly play amongst kids, without a rigorous programme hanging over your head.

Be their friend

The work amongst populace schools is that at that topographic point is a whole bunch of kids crammed into a tiny classroom. Sometimes, that surroundings is stressful non exclusively for the teacher, but for the children equally well. In a crowd, shy kids tend to hold out afraid to enquire for aid when they don't empathise something. Tutoring home-schooled kids way having unremarkably ane to 2 kids to function with, as well as therefore there's less pressure. Be their friend, brand them experience unafraid to enquire questions as well as verbalize their mind. If they recollect of yous equally a friend, they won't hold out shy to enquire questions they would otherwise experience are unimportant or silly.

In the end, it's your undivided attending as well as inventiveness that volition relieve the day. Use these newly institute skills as well as exhibit kids that math is non something to hold out feared, but quite the contrary - an interesting as well as fun activeness through which they larn novel things nigh the Blue Planet or as well as therefore them.
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Great!  These are pretty demand forward, but adept reminders for parents as well as teachers.  My kids dear Origami! Thanks for your insights Ivana!

How Long Produce Posts In Addition To Figurer Things Induce Got You?

Sometimes I am then surprised how long a unproblematic word update or spider web log takes to type, format, as well as transportation out!

This morning time I gear upwardly out amongst a unproblematic task--send out my MailChimp newsletter.  That infant took over an hr to teach right.  I mean value I induce got gotten a flake faster at making a post, precisely wow... making things takes then much time.

The other hateful solar daytime I went to a Social Media seminar that helps you lot streamline social media.  You know, Facebook, Twitter, blogs, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Instagram... there's a huge listing now.  I induce got about of mine linked, precisely who can't improve, right?

Anyway, if you'd similar to come across my monthly update that went out this is the link, as well as you lot tin plough over the axe sign upwardly to teach it inwards your really ain e-mail box past times signing upwardly at the correct : )

Have a prissy weekend everyone!

Books Are Hither In Addition To Right Away On Amazon!

Hey everyone--Happy fourth of July!

I accept non bad news!!! The Pancake Menu mass shipment is inwards in addition to at 1 time on Amazon!  I'd dear for y'all to portion it in addition to reckon getting your re-create today!
   Although if y'all desire a signed re-create y'all tin social club straight from me on kidsmenubooks.com : )

 Here is firsthand what it is similar to become a shipment of K books, in addition to they are beautiful over-sized books similar this...
H5N1 friend did wrote upward a non bad article on the mass HERE on Medium.

Take care!

Book Launch In Addition To Opened Upwardly To Your Ideas...

I experience similar I'm inwards a chip of a slump... I haven't written a weblog post inwards a few weeks straightaway as well as I'm all the same wickedly busy amongst life.

Here is closed to of what's been going on...

  • The Pancake Menu is straightaway on Amazon!  Yay!  That took a spell to railroad train as well as figure out everything
  • Fulfilled generally all of my Kickstarter rewards that people purchased... all the same waiting for my loving married adult man to complete the ebook versions.
  • I've submitted the mass for a newer mass laurels called the Mathical Award past times Children's Book Council & MSRI (Mathematical Sciences Research Institute).
  • I submitted my mass to Costco corporate to hopefully (really everything crossed--fingers, toes, the whole bit) as well as then they volition reckon carrying my mass inwards their warehouses.
  • Submitted The Pancake Menu to Barnes as well as Noble to last carried inwards their stores.
  • Asked closed to bloggers for mass reviews--let me know if you lot desire to create a mass review.
  • Submitted my mass to Timberdoodle--a homeschooling provide site.
All this going on spell taking attention of my kids at home, keeping upwards amongst cooking as well as cleaning, as well as actually pondering how else I tin larn my mass out there.  Here are closed to of my ideas...
  • Email homeschooling groups--I could percentage my friend's awesome writeup article she did for my launch
  • Set upwards schoolhouse visits amongst local uncomplicated schools.
  • Call to a greater extent than TV stations to larn closed to media close how fun as well as educational it is.
I'm as well as then excited to larn my mass out there, merely at that topographic point is solely i lilliputian me inwards this whole big world.  Do you lot bring whatever ideas for me?  Do you lot bring a homeschooling grouping that would dear the book?  I'm all ears to require heed your ideas for spreading the give-and-take close The Pancake Menu, a mass for 7-10 yr olds to bring a hands-on math experience!

Thanks!

Why Is House Value Then Of Import Together With How Tin Ane Learn It?

According to this Education.com article entitled The Impact of Place Value on Mathematics it states "Place value is maybe the close telephone substitution concept imbedded inwards the uncomplicated in addition to middle schoolhouse mathematics curriculum."  and why?  Because everything inwards computation hinges on it!

About 2 years agone I made a TpT/TN printable 32 page children's mass to help teachers alongside this real champaign of written report of house value. (you tin post away subscribe to my YouTube channel also : ))  Here is a reading of it...


If that wasn't plenty for that production I also made only about associated flash cards that larn along alongside the book...

 
I gave a shortened freebie version, but I also accept the whole pack of 1-100 cards alongside four versions.  You larn 48 pages of cards...

  • 1-100 cards inwards B&W alongside numbers
  • 1-100 cards inwards B&W without numbers
  • 1-100 cards inwards color alongside numbers
  • 1-100 cards inwards color without numbers


With these cards yous tin post away produce numerous games in addition to activities!  It is slow for kids to visualize alongside oranges instead of the normal manipulative of picayune blocks in addition to sticks.

I only felt similar revisiting these products because alongside the maiden off of the schoolhouse twelvemonth I know a lot of teachers could actually role these products!  Take care!

When did/does schoolhouse maiden off for you?

Awesome Posts: 1 Majority Review & 1 Invitee Post Service + Supriseride.Com

Hello everyone,

I promise everyone is enjoying the dorsum to schoolhouse season!  I was thus excited to read this fun review post of i instructor who used The Pancake Menu inwards her third degree classroom!  Thanks Julie at Math is Elementary!

She fifty-fifty made pancakes for the students!  What a groovy teacher!  You should actually acquire cheque out her pictures as well as fun post.

Actually, since I bring the books my kids bring been having me read The Pancake Menu to them as well as my daughter's favorite is making rainbow pump pancakes!


Also, yesterday I was a invitee at a swain children's writer's blog: AJ Cosmo!  The post is here: Media, Kickstarter, as well as Pancakes!

If you lot haven't aready seen the segment when I was on Good Morning America, you lot should acquire cheque it out on AJ's spider web log post : )

I've too been gearing upwards to see schools to a greater extent than or less my surface area as well as making the coin packets!

Oh, too I lastly looked upwards Surpriseride.com from Kevin O'Leary mentioning it on my GMA segment.  It is an awesome subscription service for 6-11 twelvemonth former hands-on learning activities.  I idea I powerfulness live able to brand a spider web log post for them as well as thus I thought: it would live actually cool if my mass came inwards i of their monthly boxes! So I bring an e-mail into them.  I'm actually thinking of getting the service for my younger 3 kids who I intend would actually relish the fun activities.

Sorry for beingness all over the house alongside today's post--lots going on.  Have a groovy task hateful solar daytime weekend!