Tag: Afterschool
Fun, Easy Activities for Struggling Readers
For a struggling reader, any activity involving reading might be met with great resistance, reluctance, or tantrums. As a parent, your main goal is to make the process less overwhelming and more enjoyable, but you may also feel pressure to improve your child’s reading skills test scores. What your child may need most are small […]
How to Close Learning Gaps with Afterschool Enrichment
Are you concerned that your child may have some learning gaps? Do you fear that a summer break or lack of quality instruction in school has caused your child to experience learning losses? What should you do? You can have your child stay after school to practice what was learned earlier in the day, or […]
Our Family’s Favorite Summer Learning Activities
Summertime in South Florida is…hot. For me, it is also the perfect time to evaluate my kiddo’s performance over the last year, and make any necessary adjustments. I learned the hard way that you can’t wait for July or August to roll around to start thinking about the upcoming year. We did that our first […]
Can an Online Summer Program Benefit Your Child?
Summer is right around the corner. For families, so is the opportunity to discover the awesome power of summer to help their kids catch up and thrive in their homeschool or traditional brick-and-mortar school. With the season’s warmer weather and longer days, summer is synonymous with outdoor activities, family vacations, and a more relaxed routine. […]
Mom Uses Time4Learning to Prevent Her Kids from Falling Behind in School
Like any other parent, Sarah Murphy wants her kids to be happy and successful, and she believes education is the key to achieving these goals. However, she also feels that what the pandemic has done to education has the potential to derail those plans. Sarah lives in Illinois with her two children, a daughter in […]
A Gifted Child’s Journey Using Time4Learning For Afterschool and Homeschooling
This is a story about helping a young girl reach her full potential. It’s about breaking down age and grade-level expectations, and, more importantly, limitations. It’s about not accepting others’ opinions about how far a gifted girl can go. It’s about using Time4Learning as a learning playground for a beautiful mind, a place where a […]
Is Online Homeschooling Different from Remote Learning?
If you’re a parent of school-aged children, you may be confused by the various terms used today to describe how education is being delivered. With terms such as remote learning, homeschooling, and distance learning being thrown around, it’s understandable to be left scratching one’s head. If your child is a student at a public, private, […]
Help Your Kids Thrive During Remote Learning
We’ve been forced to change our lives in profound ways over this last year — even the way we educate our children. Kids learning online is suddenly the new normal for many parents. If you’re struggling with this concept, don’t worry, we’ve put together some helpful tips to make this journey a more pleasant one […]
How To Personalize Your Child’s Education
Personalization in education allows you to tailor instruction based on a child’s unique needs, skills, abilities, and even interests. This, in turn, gives students options on how and what to learn, as well as opens the door to self-paced learning. If you’re an experienced homeschooler, you know how beneficial personalized instruction can be. For those […]
Fun STEM Activities for Kids: Math
If you’re looking to get on the STEM bandwagon, we don’t blame you. With so many fun opportunities for learning and the numerous benefits that students stand to gain, it only makes sense to integrate STEM into your homeschool. STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) has really hit the ground running since the term was […]
Fun STEM Activities for Kids: Engineering
Research shows that including STEM into a child’s curricula can activate a lifelong interest in science and even has the potential to direct their future career. Because they are already so curious about the world, it isn’t difficult for parents and teachers to steer a student’s interest and wonder toward the intricacies of how the […]
Fun STEM Activities for Kids: Technology
Each component of STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) offers students a world of learning opportunities and opens the door to tons of career options. The ‘T’ in STEM aims to help students become more familiar with technology, whether it’s a device or program. Activities using technology can help your student become more comfortable when working […]
Fun STEM Activities for Kids: Science
By now you may be familiar with the acronym STEM, standing for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. Its popularity in the homeschooling community has grown significantly, as more parents are turning toward these subjects to prepare their children for high school and the future job market. For this first section, we will be concentrating on […]
Reducing Test Anxiety with an Afterschool Learning Program
It is rare to find a child or teen who doesn’t experience some kind of performance anxiety related to test-taking. When we see our child getting stomach aches or headaches on test days, though, we naturally want to know how to prevent test anxiety. Many things can contribute to test anxiety: Lack of preparation Poor […]
Ideas for Teaching Life Skills to Kids
Whether you are old school and still call it home economics (home ec) or you call it life skills, teaching your child how to care for themselves and their home should be an important part of your homeschool routine. Learning life skills early on will help your student thrive in the real world, improve their […]