Dollhouses are Great for Teaching

Dollhouses are great for teaching. Not only do they provide make-believe play and learning of social skills for little ones, they also provide a great opportunity to learn the basics of construction and following instructions. Here is a nice little house that's for sale on eBay:

Vintage Greenleaf The Arthur Wooden Dollhouse Kit NIB - eBay (item 390336258781 end time Aug-09-11 11:09:28 PDT)

Teaching with LEGO Vignettes

If you are an educator, I just found out about a concept that could change the way your students learn. Maybe you're fully aware of the idea behind LEGO Vignettes, but I just found out what they are and how they can help with educating children.

You probably can figure out that the word Vignette comes from a French word meaning Vine, but do you know how this relates to education, LEGOS and creating a Vignette? After reading about this, you'll want to make sure that a tub of LEGO's is an essential item in every classroom. Maybe even put it on the children's back-to-school lists.

Read the following post, from Teachable Scotts Tots, to find out more:

Teachable Scotts Tots Homeschool: Using LEGO Vignettes in education

5 Tips To Keep Your Kids Safe With Fireworks

4th of July is an exciting celebration of freedoms. But, it's also means trips to the emergency room with numerous personal fireworks injuries. Here's how you can avoid this:

5 Tips To Keep Your Kids Safe With Fireworks

Using Legos and Visual Cues to Teach

Teaching well requires pooling resources that the student can understand. Two hands-on or visual tools like these are LEGOS and visual cues. One is great for the hands-on learner, the other for the visual. Following are two great articles that refer to using these in the classroom or for teaching and learning purposes:

Teach Physics & Mechanics With LEGOS

What Are Visual Cues And Teachinig With Visual Cues

Wikki Stix for hands-on education and how you can win yours free!

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My children and I had the privilege of reviewing a product called Wikki Stix. The good people at Wikki Stix sent me some samples and away we went. The kids have since begged to "play" with the Wikki Stix. What a fun way to learn! They are non-allergenic, clean up easily and easy to work with for little fingers. Not only that, they are very affordable and reusable over and over again. They have endless uses.

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There are numerous other packs to purchase and put to educational use. There are even party paks to use at birthday parties and Curious George workbooks. I especially loved the idea of the adult stress reducer pak. There are alphabet cards, number cards, holiday kits, dinosaur and oceans kits, glow in the dark stix, single color paks, rainbow paks, neon paks and more.

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It only takes a buck! Drop some love!

Hey guys! The Love Drop team is at it again! Last month they gave over $9,200 worth of cash, goods and services to their recipient, the Stalnaker family, who had been going through a financially hard time due to the effects of the BP oil spill on the Louisiana economy. The family was in need of a car and the Love Drop team was able to surprise them with one, making it one of the most exciting Love Drops ever. You can watch how it all went down here.

This month they rally behind the Aubins - a Michigan mother and her three children who are mourning the death of Keith, husband and father, after his lengthy battle with multiple health problems. Our goal is to raise at least $3,600 to pay the family's rent for three months, which will allow them to focus on what they need to during this time, without fear of losing their home. Additionally, since Keith was an organ donor, he leaves a powerful legacy and the Love Drop team hopes to raise awareness of organ donation this month to honor Keith's memory. Help us make this month special for the Aubins!

Want to help? Here are three ways you can participate:



Give $25 towards rent <-- Click this link to contribute $25 towards their rent for the next three months - it will relieve so much stress for them. Give a gift or service - Gift cards are always helpful. Places like Target, Wal-mart, restaurants, etc would definitely help them out. Services too - especially those you can offer yourselves, or from your company.

Organ donation - We're giving the Aubin's the gift of knowing that the people on our team are organ donors. If you are one now, or pledge to be soon, please tell us so, and we'll relay the total number as a gift at the Drop.

Blogathon 2011 Is Done!

I did it! I blogged for the Blogathon 2011 challenge and successfully completed it! Today is the last blog entry of 31 throughout the month of May.

I hope you have enjoyed reading these blogs. I hope they have been educational, and I plan on bringing much more interesting educational links, news and items of interest in the future.

Happy reading - Happy blogging!