Afterschool Enrichment - Home Learning

Try using technology as an afterschool alternative to tutoring

Today's kids love computers, technology, and the internet. So it makes sense to use it as an educational tool, especially if your kids are having difficulty with a subject. Technology can help students find their comfort zone, creating more engaged learners. And by engaging them, you've already won half the battle!

Time4Learning is a new approach to afterschool learning. Our web-based learning materials takes advantage of today's technology, presenting standards-based exercises in a non-threatening way. Computers can open doors in a way that textbooks can't by creating an interactive learning experience that brings the material to life. And since computers have endless patience, they promote a can-do state of mind.

Time4Learning is proven effective for learning at home and improving grades. It has a low monthly price and provides a 14 day money-back guarantee so you can make sure that it works for your children, satisfaction guaranteed! Sign up now.

Why Use Time4Learning for Afterschool Enrichment?

It is common for some students to need extra practice before fully understanding a lesson, especially with math, language arts and reading. In school, lessons generally follow a progression. So if your kids don't have a solid understanding of the basics, they may have difficulty later.

Time4Learning is a great alternative to expensive afterschool tutoring because it is standards-based, which means it closely follows curricula used in public schools. Kids genuinely enjoy the funny sound effects and the quirky cartoon characters delivering the material. Animated, interactive lessons feel more like video games than learning exercises to the kids. Plus, the student-paced nature of the program gives them a feeling of independence and sense of ownership over their progress, which is a great motivator.

Here are a few more reasons to try Time4Learning:

• Lessons are student-paced, allowing students to repeat lessons as many times as they want until they've mastered a skill.
• Lessons are presented in a sequential order in small chunks. Each lesson within a chapter builds on the last, which helps reinforce skills.
• Students have access to one grade above and one grade below, allowing them to flip back to lessons from the previous year if they don't fully understand a concept.
• Lessons are taught by animated characters in a highly visual, interactive manner. This helps bring the material to life and lets students engage with the material instead of memorizing it.
• Activities provide alternative explanations, so if a student answers a question incorrectly the first time, the activity then will explain it in a different way.

My daughter always liked learning, but Time4Learning has turned "like" into love! I've never seen her so excited to do lessons, before!

It's amazing how quickly my kids are learning difficult concepts. The animation really helps them apply the lessons to something tangible!

Lesson Activity Finder Tool

The lesson activity finder is one of the many helpful tools that Time4Learning offers its members. The activity finder is a shortcut that makes it easy for parents to preview lessons or find lessons covering a specific topic or skill.

Every lesson in the curriculum has a unique activity number, referred to in the lesson plans as an "LA Number." These numbers can be found on either the scope and sequence pages or the lesson plans in the parent administration area.

The activity finder can be found in the lower left hand corner of the Student LaunchPad page. To use it, members simply log in to their child's account, type the Learning Activity (LA) number of a lesson into the Activity Finder and click "Go" to open it.

For additional information, please visit our hints and help section, which gives more details about the activity finder.

I LOVE Time4Learning! It holds the attention of my kids, plus I can keep track of their learning without hovering over their shoulders.

I am really pleased with Time4Learning. It has made a world of difference in my son's academic performance in school!

Supplementary Enrichment to Help to Learn to Read

Time4Learning's reading enrichment teaches and improves phonemic awareness (reading readiness), phonics, reading fluency, vocabulary and comprehension. From preschool to eighth grade, our lessons introduce your children to age-appropriate reading skills through lessons and educational teaching games.

• Pre-schoolers begin with our very own award winning curriculum. It combines technology, animated characters, original stories and fun music to inspire a love of learning in the littlest e-learners. Ed Mouse and his friends use simple verbal instructions to guide children through more than forty topics making it simple for even pre-readers to follow. View our preschool lesson plans for more information.
• The elementary lessons cover phonics, verbal comprehension, reading fluency, vocabulary development, reading comprehension, grammar and other language arts skills by integrating age-appropriate concepts within thematic units of study.
• The middle school lessons teach advanced reading comprehension, literary analysis, critical thinking, vocabulary, grammar and punctuation, and writing skills.

At first, I was skeptical about using a computer program for reading. But the progress we made is really clear and I couldn't be happier that we tried it!

In sixth grade language arts, there is an
emphasis on reading comprehension
and writing skills.

Math Enrichment Programs

The Time4Learning Math Programs start preschoolers on features, sets and following directions. Once kids master those concepts, they move on to understanding numbers and quantity.

• In elementary math, kids will learn math operations, math facts, word problems, measurement, geometry and probability.
• In middle school math, lessons cover data analysis, geometry, probability, spatial reasoning, and real and unreal numbers.
• Algebra is also available at the 7th and 8th grade level upon request

In fourth grade math, Frank
learns about different ways fractions
can be represented in the lesson
Part of the Pie

Here at Frank's Fraction Pizzeria,
4th graders learn about the relationships
between numbers, decimals and fractions.

Enriching Educational Games - Fun that Teaches

Time4Learning offers standards-based math and language arts lessons from preschool to eighth grade which correlate to state standards. The flexible, student-paced approach combines animated lessons, interactive exercises and printable worksheets, making it a great tool for afterschool remediation. The program has been refined through years of feedback from educators, parents, and students and is used in public schools nationwide as a classroom teaching tool.

Educational teaching games from Time4Learning give kids the opportunity to learn to read and to practice their math skills, teaching and reinforcing their lessons in a fun environment. Getting children to do their enrichment after school is often very difficult. With Time4Learning, the fun use of the computer works for you!

Math and reading should be a fun part of a child's daily routine. Reading and math, concepts and skills are introduced, practiced, reinforced, and assessed. The Time4Learning education enrichment provides teaching and games for either homeschool or supplementary use.

The language arts is GREAT for helping with phonics and beginner reading skills... Plus, the lessons are thoroughly entertaining!

Here at Letter Stadium, first graders learn
about "r-controlled vowels" from the
Phonics Football Players.

Enrichment Online

Most children find school either boring or too difficult at times. Of the many solutions, one of the most effective is to get the children to engage more fully with their studies. Time4Learning, as an online enrichment program, allows parents to have children follow a full self-running curriculum at home which provides reinforcement and added depth to their school studies. Alternatively, using the Time4Learning online lesson plans, the parents can select online lessons that reinforce the unit that is being done simultaneously at school. Either way, Time4Learning has provided wonderful enrichment to thousands of children, why not yours?

Make Time4Learning your children's enrichment resource. Signup for Time4Learning and gain access to a variety of educational materials, which will engage and challenge your child to succeed. Registration takes minutes and there is a two week money-back guarantee.