Back to School Clothes on a Budget

For moms on a budget, the back to school wardrobe can be a frightening prospect.  Your kids are begging for Tommy, Ralph, and Doc Marten, but your wallet wants to head to Wal-Mart.  Here are some tips for getting the most out of your back-to-school buck while still giving kids what they want

Keep Involved with Classroom

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Here are some things you can do to help out school and have some fun too.

1)Make a photo- of the first day back to school take lots of them don't just stop at the first day.

2)school work collection-get folders and put them into months and years.(that way you and your child can look back and see how fair they have come)

3)memory project-like teach them a simple magic trick

4)mom journal-record all your feeling even if it is you cried your self to sleep you dont want to forget especially when the go to k, middle and high school.

5)art show-like make puppets

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Learning Gallons & Pints

Here are some cool teaching tools for helping your kids with this stage of learning measurements.

Private School Vs. Public School

When I think of all of the words that crossed my palate when I was in my 20s that I wished I could swallow and take back at this much later age, these words certainly win the prize for "the dumbest words I ever spoke."  "I dont see any reason to send any child of mine to private school. Public school was good enough for me, and it will be good enough for my child."  Now, in looking back, I view what I said as being the equivalent of a child abuse survivor saying, "I got beat and see how well I turned out."

Bread Shapes

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To help my 3 year old learn his shapes, I simply cut all his bread food (toast, sandwiches, etc) into shapes. Yes, it takes longer to cut a circle out of a piece of toast, but now he will tell me which shape he wants and he can identify them, too. His friends love this and will often ask to eat a "triangle" when the come to our house. He's learned his shapes without a struggle.

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Back to School Clothes on a Budget

For moms on a budget, the back to school wardrobe can be a frightening prospect.  Your kids are begging for Tommy, Ralph, and Doc Marten, but your wallet wants to head to Wal-Mart.  Here are some tips for getting the most out of your back-to-school buck while still giving kids what they want

Learning Gallons & Pints

Here are some cool teaching tools for helping your kids with this stage of learning measurements.

Bread Shapes

Your rating: None Average: 4 (1 vote)

To help my 3 year old learn his shapes, I simply cut all his bread food (toast, sandwiches, etc) into shapes. Yes, it takes longer to cut a circle out of a piece of toast, but now he will tell me which shape he wants and he can identify them, too. His friends love this and will often ask to eat a "triangle" when the come to our house. He's learned his shapes without a struggle.

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Private School Vs. Public School

When I think of all of the words that crossed my palate when I was in my 20s that I wished I could swallow and take back at this much later age, these words certainly win the prize for "the dumbest words I ever spoke."  "I dont see any reason to send any child of mine to private school. Public school was good enough for me, and it will be good enough for my child."  Now, in looking back, I view what I said as being the equivalent of a child abuse survivor saying, "I got beat and see how well I turned out."

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