In today's classrooms everywhere, teachers are stressing memorization of multiplication math facts. Why is it then, that our children are still struggling ? There are a number of problems that hinder how our children memorize multiplication tables, here are just a few:

• Multiplication is often introduced when students haven't fully mastered simple  addition and subtraction facts.

If your child is struggling with math at any level, we can help them master their math struggles.

• Traditionally, students are taught multiplication, then move on to division, however, studies have shown that students who have learned multiplication and division together, have a better understanding of the mathematical concept.

Math is an integral part of every day life, students who struggle with math, may suffer from lower self esteem.
We can help your child build their math skills and boost their self esteem.

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Do you have a student who is getting ready to take the SAT test? We have a tutor who can help your child be better prepared to take this test and show them how to achieve the best scores they can get. Call us today to set up your first session. We have package rates for the SAT Test Prep sessions.

Hurry, it's not too late the get a few sessions in before the next SAT Test on March 13, but it's the perfect time to start to prepare for the SAT Test for the May 1st SAT Test date!

We have all heard the songs today, one that I especially like when working with kids is the Cha Cha Slide. This song is long, but it is a great work out for young kids. There are things that kids are learning while beebopping to the music. For example, they are learning left to right, they are learning to cross their mid line, they are learning to slide, and yes this is an important skill.

Teaching children Locomotion Skills is not only great exercise, locomotor skills are the basic ways to move, the building blocks of coordination. Help your child practice these important skills: walking, galloping, jumping, hopping, side-sliding, leaping and skipping. Start gradually with walking (the easiest) and steadily advance to skipping (the most difficult).

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So, you've decided to homeschool your student and at some point begin to realize there may be a need to have your child evaluated for Special Ed. So, now what are your resources?The first thing to know is that legal rights for homeschoolers vary from state to state, according to Darren Jones, an attorney with the Home School Legal Defense Association.

The first part of the special education process is straightforward: Every child, no matter what state he or she lives in, has the right to be evaluated for special education. But once the testing in completed, all consistency goes out the window. The level of services schools provide to homeschoolers varies from state to state, and sometimes from town to town. In 12 states homeschooling is considered the same as private schooling, and students have access to services at public schools, Jones says. But the other states have different rules. 

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Tonight marks the beginning of the 2010 Winter Olympics ! Do you have a favorite event? Does your family gather around the television to cheer on your favorite athlete? This is a great time to come together and spend quality family time with your children. Use this time to predict who will win the event, who will come away with the most medals or how different scores are tabulated. Your children will never know that you just caused them to do math while they were rooting on the home team!

Go USA! Enjoy these events with your family and squeek in some learning when they're not lookin'!

Valentine's Day is this Sunday and what better time than now to help your child learn to use expressive language.  Use this time to sit with your child and create hand made Valentine's for those special people in your life. Send the grandparents a card with 50 different things that the kids love about them. Write a poem using all five senses about a special Valentine. However you celebrate this day, use it as a learning moment to expand your child's vocabulary and get them to use words that create a picture of their love for their special Valentine.

February is full of fun and exciting holidays and celebrations, however, one important aspect to February is Dental Health Month!

It is during February that some dentists and their assistants make special trips to schools to talk to students about how to keep their teeth clean and healthy.

Most dentists agree that prevention is key. Once a tooth has decay, the only way to fix it is with a trip to the dentist. This can sometimes be a traumatic experience for the patient and an unexpected financial expense for the parents.

Dentists recommend that parents begin brushing their children's teeth as soon as they begin to come in. At first, a soft cloth is all that is needed twice a day, but as the child grows, dentists recommend a soft toothbrush used twice a day. Doing this early in life will build life long habits on the importance of brushing.

Children should be encouraged to eat healthy foods and limit their intake of sweet, sticky foods. Childen should be encouraged to brush at least twice a day, and after meals when possible. No time to brush your teeth after lunch at school? No, problem, end your lunch by eating a nice crisp apple...nature's toothbrush!

Revenge on an Aching Tooth

by Winifred Sackville Stoner, Jr.

One time I had an awful pain
    Which made me groan and cry;
It felt like daggers in my head
    Which stabbed at my right eye.

It was the toothache, mother said,
    And as she petted me,
She quite agreed with Bobby Burns
    That nothing worse could be.

Not even chiggers, ainhum, yaws,
    Or leprosy and sprue,
With craw-craw and the Dhobie itch,
    Piedra and goundou.

Beriberi and pinta, too,
    With cholera and boils,
And dengue and bubonic plague
    Or dreadful serpents' coils.

With fevers scarlet, yellow, black
    And measles and the mumps,
Green apple-colic, whooping cough,
    And chicken-pox's bumps.

In Mother's sympathy for me
    No comfort could I find,
And so I sought the dentist's aid,
    Where forceps cruel but kind

Removed the sore and aching tooth,
    And freed me from the pang,
Which by the noted Bobby Burns
    Was called "A venomed stang."

And when the dentist gave to me
    The very little thing
Which for so long had tortured me
    With joy I longed to sing.

And I resolved to sugar it
    And watch it every day,
While it was having dreadful pangs
    And I could laugh and play.