Back to School

Going Back to School?

Parents want the school year to start out right. Are you looking for printable's, lesson plans, and back to school ideas on how to make sure your children start the new school year out right?

Parents have struggled for years with different approaches to helping their children build and reinforce their language arts and math skills. With the increased pressures from standardized tests, the need to stay up with the class is more important than ever. But how to help your children reinforce the skills they learned last year and to get a jump start on this year? Have you noticed how much your children like using the computer?

You can jump to the following profiles/sections:

• Choosing the Right Back to School Resources
• Why Create Your Own Back to School Lesson Plans and Printable's or Pay for Expensive Tutoring?
• Ensure Back to School Success for the Whole Family
• The Best Home Education Resource
• Home Education Computer Opportunities: "Back to School Supplies"
• Key features of Time4Learning's Program

Choosing the Right Back to School Resources

The computer and internet have become valuable tools for parents. Online learning can help children excel at these core subjects since today's online educational teaching games and learning software blur the distinction between games and lessons.

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Why Create Your Own Back to School Lesson Plans and Printable's or Pay for Expensive Tutoring?

The computer and internet is your channel to easy-to-use, low cost, effective skills building for Preschool, Kindergarten, Elementary, and Middle School.

How can online learning programs help children in language arts in preschool and kindergarten? Online games offer younger children a chance to develop phonological awareness, master phonics, and start to develop their own interactive stories and writing skills. As kids grow, so should their reading comprehension and grammar skills. Online elementary games offer kids an opportunity to explore language arts while having fun.

How can kids math games help ensure success at the early ages? The basics of math start with the concepts of quantity, sequence, "features" of an item and set, and basic geometry. Early online education teaches children to recognize shapes; to sort items into sets based on features such as color, size, and shape; to recognize and create a sequence or pattern, and to count and recognize the numbers up to ten.

Elementary School Learning Online - Language arts skills... [need to grow] Many kids feel that they "can't do math" and shy away from practicing math problems. For children with weak basic math skills, the subject is difficult and confusing. Many parents hear from their children that math problems are boring, not important or not cool. Kids math games can help children develop a solid math foundation and make math "fun."

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Ensure Back to School Success for the Whole Family

For families with more than one child, getting ready to go back to school can even be more problematic. What works for one child, doesn't work for another. Material that works one year, may not work the next. Many children don't want to see last year's text book again but the new year is still too hard. Time4Learning tries to make the review of last year's material easy by providing an online learning system that can be followed sequentially or you can pick the lessons that you need to do. Our online, interactive educational materials offers each child their own learning path that is measured by their educational needs. Sign up for Time4Learning, and have your own personalized resource for learning at home. See the demos.

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The Best Home Education Resource

Time4Learning knows how important choosing the educational material is for your children and how maddening the resource research can be to the parents. However, our experience shows that there is no single, best homeschool material. Rather than feeling torn between homeschool resources, parents should create diversity through activities. Children need a mix and match of activities to hold their attention. Each learning style and method should be applied to exercises, making sure that a child isn't forced to sit through a particular activity for more than an hour.

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Home Education Computer Opportunities: "Back to School Supplies"

What types of educational teaching games are available?

• Learning Games on CDs - These can be bought in most stores. These games are a lot of fun with some educational components included. The downside is that most "learning games" tend to be more game than lesson. An upside is that CDs work even when there's no net access.
• Free Educational Game Sites - There are a lot of websites with "learning and games". But, these sites can be very commercial. Some even invite children to download games which contain spyware and viruses. These sites are similar to CDs in that they tilt towards games with limited educational substance.
• Free Learning Sites - Free learning sites range from those that provide worksheets to those with interactive exercises. But, it is left to the parent to provide continuity, determine progress, and to assemble an over-all program.
• Time4Learning.com - This subscription service teaches children math and reading skills systematically. Time4Learning tracks the children's activities and provides them with an effective sequence. Time4Learning also has reports for parents and games for kids included in the $19.95 monthly fee. Learn More or Sign Up Now.

Computer-based learning blurs the line between learning and games. Educational fun games for kids reinforce lessons and can teach new reading and math skills. Sometimes kids learn better using interactive educational teaching games, because there's more concentration and more fun.

So gain access to a variety of educational materials, which will engage and challenge your child to succeed. Make Time4Learning a part of your children's home education resources. Sign up for Time4Learning, and have your own personalized resource for learning at home. See the demos.

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Time4Learning is vibrant, engaging, educational, and funny. It sure beats our previous homeschool curriculum which was textbook/workbook based.

Time4Learning is so effective that very little intervention is required. This works great if you're homeschooling multiple children.

Key Features of Time4Learning's Home Education Program

Time4Learning.com combines 1000+ multimedia lessons, printable worksheets and graded activities in a student-paced environment that brings concepts to life. Math and language arts lessons are correlated to state standards. Science, social studies and art are also provided as a bonus to most grades.

Parents get access to printable lesson plans, teaching tools (located in the parent administration section), detailed reporting and parental support through our online Parent Forum.

Other key features of the program:

• Students get individual logins and work on their own schedule and pace
• Parents can set the grade level independently for each subject
• The grade above and below are available for review and additional study
• Detailed lesson plans available for parents who wish to review lesson contents
• Access to an online playground that rewards and motivates
• An automated system grades lessons and keeps reports for homeschool portfolio usage (shown below)
• Sign up and get started on the same day!

Time4Learning is entirely web based, so there is no software to download, no CDs and nothing additional to purchase. Students will be able to access the program 24/7 from any computer with an internet connection.

Time4Learning requires no contracts and offers a 14-day money back guarantee. Browse lesson plans, try the interactive lesson demos or view the curriculum overview to see what's available.