Spooky Halloween Scavenger Hunt
Find tricks and treats around the neighborhood with this Spooky Halloween Scavenger Hunt!
Spooky Halloween Scavenger Hunt
Parent Resources
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Back-to-School Tips For Parents
Back-to-School Tips For Parents
Find tips and strategies to emotionally prepare your child to start the school year from our resident Ph.D. – including a handy checklist.
Homework 101
Homework 101
Written by Peggy Kaye, HOMER’s Chief Curriculum Officer Featured in KIDBOX’s The Scribble Newspaper All too often, homework turns peaceful evenings into fighting matches between parents and kids. What can be done to stop the arguments? Here are a few ideas from our...
8 Tips to Keep Kids Loving Reading in a World of Test Prep
8 Tips to Keep Kids Loving Reading in a World of Test Prep
We hope these tipsl help your family keep the spirit of reading alive and well in your home, even as the pressures of standardized testing mount.
Salt Dough Ornament Craft
Salt Dough Ornament Craft
Our go-to salt dough recipe to make together for holiday gifts while practicing sensory and creative skills.
Perfect Car Games While on the Road
Perfect Car Games While on the Road
Homer’s experts have prepared a cheat sheet to help make traveling with kids enjoyable and educational!
The Perfect Balance: Using Online Learning to Inspire Offline Play
The Perfect Balance: Using Online Learning to Inspire Offline Play
By HOMER Mom Ambassador Rachael Harris As a homeschool mom of three children, ranging from 19 months to 6 years old, with an early childhood education background, I’m a bit obsessed with a few key ingredients in raising healthy, successful children. Building great...
How to Boost Your Child’s Reading Comprehension: 5 Tips that Really Work
How to Boost Your Child’s Reading Comprehension: 5 Tips that Really Work
Peggy Kaye, the designer of HOMER's learning system, is a known literary expert and the author of a series of books that are jammed packed with games that help children learn. She has been a teacher and private tutor for over 40 years and enjoys sharing her...
Help Tutt and Millie Pack Their Bags with this FREE Phonics Printable
Help Tutt and Millie Pack Their Bags with this FREE Phonics Printable
Have you ever been so excited to go on a trip? (I mean, really, aren't we all?) So are Tutt and Millie. After reading HOMER story 'Flying Kite' in the Poetry section and then help your child reinforce rhyming words and talk about upcoming travel with this adorable...
Back to School Printables
Back to School Printables
Record your child's thoughts before the school year begins with a time capsule and bookmark.
What Does it Mean to be Kindergarten Ready?
What Does it Mean to be Kindergarten Ready?
It’s back to school season and many young learners are embarking on an entirely new adventure – kindergarten! According to the National Center for Education Statistics, students enter kindergarten at very different skills levels, which is natural given that...
Ideas for Teaching Sight Words from the ‘Sight Word King’
Ideas for Teaching Sight Words from the ‘Sight Word King’
Sheena P. has been a part of our Homer Ambassador group for a few months now, and has recently celebrated success with her son being crowned the ‘Sight Word King’ this summer. It’s not easy to get a budding reader excited about sight words, and she’s willingly...