Your MAIL ADVENTURE Printables: Letter Prompts
These letter prompts so you can provide another way to stay in touch! Print them on regular printer paper, and get busy writing!
Your MAIL ADVENTURE Printables: Letter Prompts
Kindergarten
Go on a Mail Adventure with This Printable Mail Hat
Go on a Mail Adventure with This Printable Mail Hat
Take your mail adventure to the next level with this adorable mail hat. Encourage your child to use their imagination and create a world all their own.
4 Reasons To Listen To Music With Your Kids
4 Reasons To Listen To Music With Your Kids
Check out this amazing playlist and have some fun listening to your favorite tunes with your kids!
Teachers Give 5 Tips For Keeping A Clean Desk
Teachers Give 5 Tips For Keeping A Clean Desk
Before coming to HOMER to work on the Learning Team, I spent 8 years as a preschool teacher in New York City. Let’s face it, the teacher’s desk can sometimes become a catchall place for everything under the sun. One of my main struggles was keeping my desk clean...
My Child Believes He Is a Terrible Reader and Refuses Even to Try. What Can I Do?
My Child Believes He Is a Terrible Reader and Refuses Even to Try. What Can I Do?
Q&A with Peggy Kaye, HOMER’s Chief Curriculum Officer Many children feel that unless they read with the fluency of adults, then they are bad readers. Other children see classmates having an easier time learning to read and it makes them insecure. Children...
What Can I Do to Help My Child Love Reading?
What Can I Do to Help My Child Love Reading?
Q&A with Peggy Kaye, HOMER’s Chief Curriculum Officer Children who love books and stories before they are readers are very likely to love reading. Children who get lost in stories they hear, who imagine characters and feel for the problems characters face, are...
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.
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.
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...
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...