Creative Tutors of Wake County, North Carolina
Category: Mathematics
Jul 12 | The Ice Cream Cone
What is summer without ice cream?!?! It is generally thought that the invention of the ice cream cone occurred on July 23, 1904 at the World Fair in St Louis when a waffle, which was sold separately, was rolled and filled with ice cream.
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Don't forget these old favorites. The top ten games (in no particular order) no home should be without!
Candyland
Scrabble and/or Bananagrams
Yahtzee
Monopoly
Chess
Checkers
Playing cards
Clue
Battleship
Uno
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Looking for some fun summer fun? Plan a weekly family game night. Turn off the TV and gather everyone around the table for some game time. Here are a few to get you started.
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Jun 08 | Fun Summer Math Activities
Summer break from school can mean lost skills by autumn. There are a considerable number of fun summer activities which can help the child to continue practicing skills they have learned and be ready for the start of the new school year. Children need to get their hands and feet involved in the learning process.
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May 11 | Math Fun for the Summer
Looking for ways to keep up your child's math skills this summer? This website has some great math information, games and worksheets for math.
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Meet Kim Ashby | Owner
Kim Ashby earned a BS in Nursing from The Catholic University of America and, when she worked outside the home, was a Certified Emergency Nurse with a special interest in trauma nursing. She lives in Raleigh, NC with her husband and three sons. The Ashbys have home schooled their children since 1999. They graduated their oldest son in May 2007. He is attending UNC Wilmington. Kim continues to home school her younger boys. Her oldest son was diagnosed with ADHD when he was in the public school system in the second grade. Her second son has cerebral palsy which has resulted in multiple/global developmental delays. Her youngest son has undiagnosed, mild auditory processing issues.
Kim has co-instructed graduate level courses at UNC Chapel Hill for ST/OT students and Early Intervention students. She is the founder and President of the Board of Directors of GIFTSNC, Inc., a home schooling special needs support group. Kim has presented workshops at a variety of state home school conferences as well as local support group parent meetings and is often a guest speaker at homeschool conferences and is found on many guest speaker lists including Balancing the Sword. She is a Steering Committee member and former Treasurer for Dayspring Home Educators in Cary, NC. She served on the Board of Directors for the Family Support Network of Wake County. She holds a North Carolina Wildlife Permit for Small Mammal Rehabilitation and enjoys working with orphaned and injured wildlife.
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." Mark Twain