Screen Free Turn Off TV Week with

Educational Therapist Bonnie Terry

Why Turn Off TV Week?

Why Screen-Free for a Week?

Recent studies show that the amount of time American children and teens spend watching TV, playing video games or surfing the Internet has increased to almost eight hours a day. And that doesn’t include facebook time! So this week is a concentrated effort to pay attention to the amount of time you are on screens and to get a bit more balance in your family life.

Alternatives to Screen Time During Screen-Free Week or Turn Off TV Week

Turn off TV: Several family activities improve memory skills, perception skills, and comprehension skills while being screen-free

1. Be screen free and improve memory skills:   Add on Stories-improves comprehension and memory skills. You’ll need a flash light for this activity and a bit of imagination. Your family sits around the kitchen table or in the living room. Take turns holding the flashlight. The first person that holds the flashlight starts the story. When that person says ‘what happened next,’ the next person adds to the story. For example: Once upon a time a family went to the zoo and the two brothers went off to see the monkeys…and what happened next…pass the flash light on.
2. Spend an evening going through your family photo albums or putting one together. That was one of our families favorite activities!
3. Turn off TV and go on a scavenger hunts – give a list of items…they can be done in the house, in the yard, around the block, at the park, even at the mall –  several areas of perception including figure ground and visualization which improves comprehension. The key here is to write down where you saw the item rather than collecting the item. Then when you get back home, describe where you saw the item in great detail. That will improve visualization skills (ability to make pictures in your mind) which improves comprehension skills.
4. Play board games as a family: Some of our favorite games are The Sentence Zone and The Comprehension Zone. These games are fun activities to do in an evening with the whole family. You never know who will win and you are improving writing skills, grammar skills, and comprehension skills while playing. Definitely a win-win!

We have over 80 fun family activities in our family activity book you can download. The activities include:

• things to do around the house
• outdoor activities
• field trips to take.
  

What if I can’t unplug all week What if I just can’t turn off TV for a whole week?

Don’t be hard on yourself-set limits and stick to them. Planning ahead helps, but don’t feel guilty if you don’t make it the whole week. What you do do will still make a difference! Turn off TV week, even if you go from 7 hours a day to 5 hours a day will make a big difference!

Bonnie Terry: Best Homework Help

Websites and Homework Resources

Homework Help: Why do so many kids struggle with math, especially Algebra?

Teachers often move fast in math to cover the curriculum. Unfortunately kids don’t always have each concept solid before they have to move on to the next concept. Math just keeps getting harder.

Kids that struggle with algebra never got a solid foundation with fractions. The way you manipulate fractions is the same way you manipulate equations so it’s necessary to really understand fractions.

Homework Help: How can parents refresh their memories on certain subjects
or find cheat sheets so that they can help their kids with their homework?

Use our BT Easy Math Reference Guide and the Writer’s Easy Reference Guide – ultimate cheat sheets for math and writing assignments.

The following is a review on the BT Easy Math Reference Guide from Mary Pride (publisher of Practical Home Schooling Magazine):

The BT Easy Math Reference Guide is a mother load of math help. If you’re one of those “math-phobic” moms, it could be a huge help with teaching your kids elementary math and getting them ready with everything they need to know before tackling algebra.

Starting with addition and subtraction, this 16-page guide shows step by step how to solve all elementary math calculations right up to fractions and decimals. Also covered are all those “other” math topics, such as word problems, bar and circle graph, rounding and estimating, place value, geometry, measurements, money, and averaging.

You’ll learn the how, the why, and the memory tricks to help you student remember. Simple, clear examples, all in a sturdy, 3-hole-punched format you can slip into a binder. It’s a great supplement to any math program, for both parent and student.
Don’t spend another evening frustrated, trying to help your child with their math assignment! Become your child’s math hero; empower your child, and ENJOY your evenings!

The Writer’s Easy Reference Guide is your ultimate cheat sheet for writing assignments. A First Hand Experience:

“Wow! This is everything our students need to know to pass the state writing exam! We have one for every student. Thanks!”
Wilson Senior High School, LA Unified School Dist.

“This is great, it has everything my students need in one place.”
Linda Swartz, Educational Therapist

“One of the best things I’ve ever seen!”
Trudy Farrar, 8th grade teacher

“I love your Writer’s Easy Reference Guide!”
Susan Gyulai, English teacher, Stanley Middle School

“I like having all the literature terms and parts of speech definitions so easy to use.”
Tricia L. College Student

3 Homework Help Websites that I recommend:

Homework Help for Math: Khanacademy.org – just scroll down once you get to it and pick the specific topic you need to brush up on – lots of short videos for you.

Homework Help for Science – biology and chemistry – sparknotes.com and click on spark notes. On the left it will let you select the subject

Homework Help for History – infoplease.com and again click on your topic on the left

What can you do if you go to these homework help websites and you’re still stuck?

If you are still stuck the best thing to do would be give my office a call and ask for a complimentary 30 minute consult because there may be something else interfering with the learning process. Homework help is easier than you think…just give our office a call at 530-888-7160.

Reading Help: Reading Program Gives

Students Three-Year Gain in One Year

Very excited to share that a story about my company was just posted in the Wall Street Journal’s Market Watch as well as Reuters and by 200 other media.

  Reading Help

SACRAMENTO, Calif., Jan. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Despite few advances in the Nation’s Report Card, national learning expert Bonnie Terry of http://www.BonnieTerryLearning.com creates three years of reading gains in just one year for her students using her “Awaken The Scholar Within Program.”

Students and researchers alike celebrate the gains.

“I could barely read in elementary school, but spending just one year using the Bonnie Terry reading strategies allowed me to read at a college level by the sixth grade,” says Bridget Hogan, UC student.

“We love your program because we have five solid years of data supporting your work,” says author of School Moves For Learning, Debra Wilson.

Terry’s program from http://www.BonnieTerryLearning.com demonstrates three-year reading gains in just one year and the diagnostic portion is remarkably comprehensive which allows her to get to the root cause of reading problems. Twenty-seven different areas of perception are evaluated and Terry is able to determine nine visual, nine auditory and nine kinesthetic areas in which a person may struggle and precisely what to do about it.

“It is not so important to determine what grade level a child reads at because that does not accurately reveal why a problem exists,” states Terry. “Ninety-five percent of reading problems are related to visual tracking problems, which are not tested in most schools.”

Terry, a 38-year Board Certified Educational Therapist and Learning Disability Specialist, uses a three-pronged integrative approach to help students improve reading scores in just 20 minutes a day and shares these with parents:

Reading Help: The Top Three Things Parents Can Use to Improve Reading Scores in 20 Minutes a Day:

1. Fluency training (reading accurately from left to right) for just 5 minutes a day will improve the foundational reading skills every child needs to read not only at grade level but above. Nix the flash cards, silent reading, and reading lists of words.

“Kids read across not down, and need to master the art of eye tracking, just like a skilled athlete uses better eye-tracking skills to catch, throw and hit the ball,” she says.

2. Listen, learn and do. Kids have not actually learned something until they can act on it. In Terry’s Ten Minutes To Better Study Skills book at http://www.BonnieTerryLearning.com, she shows kids how to take notes on what they read, turn those notes into paragraphs and combine paragraphs into essays.

“If ultimately we want to teach our kids to be good thinkers, we have to show them how to take action on what they learned,” says Terry. “Writing is the doing part of thinking.”

3. Play games and have fun. Games establish an emotional connection with reading and writing because they help you find the main idea, details, how to write good sentences and improve your vocabulary.

Terry’s Sentence Zone and Comprehension Zone are hands-on games with color coding and are based on years of scientific research showing that kids learn better with color and having fun while they play and learn.

Terry was named Auburn, CA Woman of the Year in 2011 and has operated http://www.BonnieTerryLearning.com for the past 16 years. Her programs include: reading, writing, spelling, study skills, and math.

Contact us for Reading Help

You may contact Terry via telephone at 530.888.7160

Media Contact:

Heather Carpenter

205.640.0102

heather.carpenter@windstream.net

heather.carpenter@bonnieterrylearning.com

Remember reading help is available with Bonnie Terry Learning’s games, books, and guides.

Homework Help: It’s Time to

Win the Homework Wars

Homework Help for Your Kids

 
The school year is well established, in fact it is half over, how can parents make the most of the rest of the school year and give their child the homework help they need?

 
It’s time to re-evaluate how things are going in school. For example, is it a good year or a frustrating year? Are you spending time every night with homework  taking up the whole night?

One thing to consider when you are spending a long time on homework every night is the sleep your child is getting. Are your kids getting enough sleep? You may even wonder why I’m asking about your child’s sleep. But sleep does have a huge impact on learning as well as homework? Studies show that there is a direct link between getting enough sleep and higher grades.

Researchers have found a link between sleep and cognitive abilities. One researcher found that sixth graders who lost just an hour of sleep performed at a fourth-grade level. Other studies show a link between getting enough sleep and higher grades. So, if you want school time and homework time to be easier for your child, see that they get enough sleep.

What other steps can parents take to give their child the homework help they need and make the rest of the school year better?

3 Homework Help Tips

There are actually 3 steps to what a parent can do…

Step 1   Paying attention to their child’s schoolwork

1. How long is it taking them to get their homework done? For each year your child is in school they should have approximately 20 minutes of homework, so a 3rd grader should have approximately 1 hour of homework per day.
2. Are they able to get their homework done accurately? Is your child usually able to get their homework done accurately or do they make a lot of mistakes? Homework should be review work, work for extra practice on a particular skill for mastery, not new concepts, so your child should have a high accuracy rate. If they are not getting at least 80% of their homework done accurately they may have missed the concept. You may need to help them out with it or contact their teacher about it.
3. Are they struggling with assignments repeatedly? When homework is a struggle repeatedly you may want to look into what the underlying root cause of those struggles. When children struggle consistently there is typically a reason for it. When you know what is going on and address it, life gets easier.
4. Do they like their teacher or feel negativity towards their teacher? Sometimes there is a conflict with your child’s teacher that may cause an attitude problem towards a particular subject. These issues can be addressed so your child can flourish in school.

Step 2: Monitor your child’s schoolwork and homework

1. Periodically check your child’s homework for quality as well as correctness
2. If it is beyond their child or if it is repeatedly too easy, talk to the teacher – you can call a conference of your own

Step 3: Provide your child with specific resources that will make homework time easier:

1. Be sure your child has the resources they need at home to help them plan out their homework and after school activities
2. Chunk homework assignments into shorter time frames for greater focus
3. Use a weekly planning calendar – there is a great one in Ten Minutes to Better Study Skills
4. Writer’s Easy Reference Guide – The ultimate cheat sheet for any writing assignment: paragraph format essay format, how to do a bibliography and much more
5. BT Easy Math Guide – The ultimate cheat sheet for any math assignment: addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, decimals, percents, word problem strategies, and much more

More homework help tips Homework Wars: How to Win the Battle

Break Time or Learning Time?

Fun Holiday Family Activities for Kids

Is it best to let my children take the whole holiday season off from learning? Bonnie Terry, America’s Leading Learning Specialist is on FOX Morning News sharing her insights and activities with you.

There is a simple answer to that no, but what you can do are some fun activities that will create family memories as well as build skills: memory skills, factual knowledge skills, and ultimately improve reading comprehension skills when your children go back to school.

The longer you let your children take a break from learning skills the longer it will take them to get back into the ‘groove’ of learning. I think you know exactly what I mean by taking awhile to get back in the groove – we’ve all been there before. It is always difficult to get back in the swing of things after a holiday break. So, I suggest doing at least 3 family activities that will promote fun family time as well as learning. And you know as well as I do that holiday time is the perfect time for family activities. Your children are primed for that extra family time and they know it is only a few weeks and they will be back at school. It’s different than looking at several months off during the summer.

Fun Holiday Family Activities for Kids

Watch the interview on FOX Morning News where Leading Learning Specialist Bonnie Terry shares both indoor and outdoor family activities for kids that your family will enjoy.

Family Activity Book…

I recall so many wonderful activities my family did when I was growing up: ice skating, seeing the Christmas lights, visits to my grandparents or Aunt and Uncle’s house, trips to the Art Institute or the Field Museum in Chicago, and of course baking those delicious spritz cookies! My children recall many of our family holiday activities in the Sacramento area. We did go ice skating in downtown Sacramento- they set up an ice rink downtown. We also went to the Crocker Art Gallery and the Railroad Museum; we made lots of Christmas crafts and collages, and of course we baked and decorated those same spritz cookies my mom had taught us to bake. I can even smell them now. So, my Christmas gift to you is the BT Family Activity Book where there are over 80 fun family activities in 7 different categories.

1. Weekly Trips
2. Nature Activities
3. Outdoor Activities
4. Do at Home Activities
5. Recommended Games
6. Recommended Books According to Grade Level
7. Award Winning Books

You can download it here: BT Family Activity Book

The Ultimate Must  Do to Make Your Holiday Family Activities Count

And, remember to take that last step with your holiday family activities: create a family scrapbook or collage that covers the activities you did. That is where the true learning of the activities takes place. The scrapbook or collage can be kept from year to year and even added to over the years. When you go back and review those places you went to or activities you did, the memory system is enhanced which improves learning skills. Family activities are a great way to build learning skills.

What is ADD or ADHD?

Bonnie Terry, America’s Leading Learning Specialist is on FOX Morning News again, this time talking about attention deficit disorder often referred to as ADHD.

First off I have to say that ADHD isn’t a child’s fault. Attention Deficit Disorder is a brain disorder that causes youngsters to have trouble with concentration, ability to complete tasks, or plan for the future.  It affects 5% to 10% of the population. And there are 6 different types of ADD – not all ADD children or adults have the hyperactivity component.

6 Types of ADD or ADHD

Some experts such as Dr. Daniel Amen classify ADHD (attention deficit disorder) in 6 ways.

1. Classic ADD
2. Inattentive ADD
3. Over-focused ADD
4. Temporal Lobe ADD
5. Limbic ADD
6. Ring of Fire ADD

Other doctors classify ADD in these 3 ways:

1. Combined Type which is a combination of inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity.
2. Hyperactive and Impulsive Type where children or adults are both hyperactive and impulsive but can pay attention.
3. Inattentive Type which used to be known as ADD. These children are not overly active. They don’t disrupt the classroom or other activities. This is the child or adult that may seem to stare off into space. They are usually compliant so you don’t even realize they have an attention deficit disorder. There symptoms are often not noticed in the classroom.

The important thing to note here is that no matter what type of ADD or ADHD children or adults have, they may not perform as consistently as peers who have no problems with focus and concentration.

 What are the common symptoms of ADD or ADHD?

1.    Attention span difficulties
2.    Distractibility
3.    Impulsivity
4.    Restlessness – fidgets or squirms in their seats
5.    Doesn’t seem to listen to instructions
6.    Have problems completing things

What are the Treatment options for ADD or ADHD?

First remember that attention deficit disorder, no matter what type, isn’t a child’s fault. It is no one’s fault and there are many things you can do to live well with it.
Treatment Options
1.    Diet
2.    Behavioral Therapy
3.    Supplements
4.    Medication
5.    Tutoring – Educational Support
6.    Improve Parenting Skills
I always say to try everything else first, but if you need medication you need medication. If your child needed eye glasses you wouldn’t deprive them. If they needed a hearing aid, you wouldn’t deprive them. So if you have done everything and still need medication, do it. But remember, medication is not used alone. You still need to work on behavior, classroom as well as home management – at home you will want to do short activities that build skills – that will help your ADHD child with the instruction that is often missed due to the inattention in the classroom.

What can you do at home to help your ADHD Child?

Additionally, things you can do at home are to provide short quick activities that will also improve your child’s skills. Hands-on games will also improve your child’s attention span. Some great ones are checkers, chess, playing cards – even fish or The Math Zone as well as board games like the Comprehension Zone, and The Sentence Zone.
There is a hands-on exercise – Brain Efficiency Exercise that you can do to help with listening skills. This easy exercise helps you to focus attention on hearing and relaxes tension in the cranial bones for clearer focus. It also improves your ability to focus on relevant information. We teach parents how to do this as well as other tips and tricks to help their ADD or ADHD child in our coaching program Awaken the Scholar Within.

Tips for Parents:

Parent Teacher Conferences

 
Getting the most out of parent teacher conferences with Board Certified Educational Therapist Bonnie Terry. She talks about how parents should prepare for parent teacher conferences to get the most out of the conference. When you prepare as a parent for parent teacher conferences you help set your child up for a better school year. Taking the time to prepare lets your child’s teacher know that you are an aware parent that is caring and concerned about your child whether they are doing great and making all a’s or if they are struggling. There are some specific things you can do to create a partnership feeling with the teacher so that your child has a terrific school year.

Parents Checklist for Parent Teacher Conferences:

Here is the quick down and dirty list of what you need to let the teacher know during parent teacher conferences:
1. if your child has allergies or frequent ear infections
2. if you suspect any learning problems
3. how much time it has been taking your child to do their homework
4. If your child is under a 504 or an IEP, give the teacher a copy of the 504 or IEP
5. show the teacher samples of homework-
i) an assignment that was very hard
ii) an assignment the really enjoyed doing

Parent Teacher Conferences Tip 1

What are some things you want to tell your child’s teacher during your parent teacher conferences that will help your child learn easier?
If your child has allergies, has frequent ear infections or had them in the past, if you suspect there might be a learning problem, and how much time it is taking your child to do their homework – whether it is done very quickly or it takes a long time is important. If your child is completing their work correctly and quickly they may not be challenged enough. If they are taking a long time there may be a learning problem hindering there ability to complete the work in a reasonable amount of time. Again, parent teacher conferences give you the parent the opportunity to have these kinds of discussions with your child’s teacher.

Parent Teacher Conferences Tip 2

Why do you need to tell the teacher if your child has allergies or has had or has frequent ear infections during your parent teacher conferences?
When your child has allergies or ear infections their ears are often plugged up and then they aren’t hearing the instruction as clearly as they should, so teachers need to be aware of that – teachers can check to be sure they understood the instruction. Your child may need preferential seating to help out with this too. If your child had frequent ear infections when they were in the primary grades they may have missed out on some critical instruction regarding reading such as phonics. Their ability to speak clearly, spell, and sound out words may have been compromised by the plugged up ears. Sometimes children even need speech therapy as well as tubes in their ears to correct the loss of instruction they had during this time.

Parent Teacher Conference Tip 3

Why is it important to tell the teacher how much time your child is spending on homework – does that have anything to do with a possible learning problem?

The time element will help the teacher to gage how your child does their work independently. The time element also is an indicator of possible learning problems as is whether your child likes reading or math – you can do an informal assessment with our Learning Disability Screening Tool to see if there might be an actual learning problem happening.

Parent Teacher Conferences Tip 4

What is a 504 and an IEP? Doesn’t the teacher already have a copy of your child’s 504 or IEP?

They are both legal documents to help your child. The 504 is done for accommodations or modifications within the classroom. An IEP is an Individualized Education Plan when your child needs additional help through a resource class or a special day class. Your child’s teacher typically knows if your child is under a 504 or an IEP, but that doesn’t mean they have had a chance to read it to see what is in it. Remember, these are both legal documents that need to be complied with, so when you had the teacher a copy during your parent teacher conferences it lets them know you are aware and it gives them easy access to the document. you do not want to create an adversarial relationship with your child’s teacher but you do want to ensure cooperation and a partnership with them. Parent teacher conferences are a perfect opportunity for you to set that relationship up for the rest of the school year.

Parent Teacher Conferences Tip 5

Why should you bring in some of your child’s homework to show the teacher during your parent teacher conferences?
Obviously your child’s teacher has seen their work before, but they don’t have your feedback then and they don’t see how your child is doing the work when they are not in a classroom situation. So, you want to bring in an assignment your child really enjoyed or found interesting as well as one that was very difficult so the teacher can get an idea of how your child is learning at home – when they are independently doing the work. When the teacher knows this, he or she can and usually does adjust their teaching accordingly. If a lot of students struggled on a particular type of assignment, they can re-teach the concept in a different manner. If your child is the only one or one of just a few, the teacher can make some slight changes for your child or those few to be sure they understand the concept.

Remember, you want to have separate folders for each of your children that contains work samples and the checklist of items you want to discuss when you go to their parent teacher conferences.

Does My Child Have a Learning Disability
 
or Learning Problem?

Bonnie Terry, recognized as America’s Leading Learning Specialist, explains the difference between a learning problem and a learning disability and then gives you several steps you can take to help your child improve their skills in just minutes a day on the FOX News Morning Show.

(There is more information on learning and how to improve learning skills below the video.)

What is the difference between a learning

disability and a learning problem?

 
The difference between a learning disability and a learning problem is how much the problem interferes with learning. It is the degree of the problem – and you can be gifted and have a problem and end up working harder than you need to. Homework time can be long and almost painful when there is something interfering with your learning. A learning disability is when you have a cluster of learning problems that impact learning. We actually find out the root cause of why you struggle.
 

What are some tell-tale signs of learning problems that may be part of a learning disability?

 
When a student takes too long to do their homework, when they don’t like reading or don’t like math – those are learning problems that may warrant looking at because there is a reason for it.  For example, children want to learn how to walk and talk – and even read early on, but when reading is hard, they decide they don’t like it – they don’t even know that it is hard – they just prefer not to do it. Same thing with math, when you don’t like math, it’s because something is interfering and making it harder than it needs to be. When you have a cluster of those learning problems, that’s when they become a learning disability.

Signs of Learning Problems:

Take too long to do their homework

Know they have an assignment but can’t remember what it is

Have trouble understanding directions

Doesn’t seem to work up to their abilities

Doesn’t like to read or struggles with reading

Doesn’t like math

Is there anything a parent can do to help their child improve their skills even if they have a learning disability?

 
Yes, there are several things parents can do to help their child with learning problems or a learning disability. For example, reading fluency, the ability to read smoothly with ease is necessary for reading success. Parents can do reading fluency training with their child very easily. We use our Five Minutes to Better Reading Skills for that. After spending five minutes improving their child’s reading fluency we suggest that you play games like the Comprehension Zone because it can be played for reading as well as listening comprehension. Finally, you can teach your child study skills – we do that with our Ten Minutes to Better Study Skills, and of course, read with your child.

We always hear that it’s important to read with your child – that just reading more will help – is there a special way to do that that will make a bigger difference?
 
Reading to your child and with your child is vitally important to reading success but the next step is even more critical. The next step is to ask the right questions after reading. You can actually even just read a few paragraphs or a few pages and then ask the usual suspects – the who, what, when, where, how, and why BUT then you need to ask about sizes, shapes, colors, scenery, movement, and mood. Those questions help one to visualize what you read or listened too. That’s when you get true comprehension – when you can picture what you have read or listened too.  You can have your child write those things down in the fill-in-the-blank graphic organizers that are found in our Ten Minutes to Better Study Skills too, because writing is the doing part of thinking.

Remember, with just a few minutes a day you can help your child with their learning skills even if they have a learning disability!

Back to School Tips with


Bonnie Terry, M. Ed., BCET

Bonnie Terry, America’s Leading Learning Specialist, shares some of her favorite back to school tips on FOX News Morning Show.

Watch here for 3 of Bonnie Terry’s Back to School Tips:

1. Backpack Organization
2. Time Management
3. Secret Tools to Help with Homework: the dreaded word problems and writing assignments

(More tips under the video!)

Don’t forget to sign up for additional step-by-step homework tips to your right.

Back to School Tip 1:

The school year is about to start or has just started. Be sure to let your child know how excited you are about their new school year and that you know they will have a good experience with their new teacher. You may want to meet their new teacher either a few days before school starts or during the second week of school – just to introduce yourself. That effort will let the teacher know that you are an interested committed parent.

Back to School Tip 2:

If last year was a difficult year, your child had a hard time, let them know that you remember how rough it was, but that this is a new year and you want to help them to have a really great experience this year. Ask your child for their suggestions for what they think you might do to help them have a great year.

Back to School Tip 3:

Look at the newspaper ads together, plan what kinds of supplies they may need this year. Take a trip together to get school supplies – notebooks, book covers, pens, pencils, backpack, assignment book, etc. Think ahead of time about the different subjects your child has so you get different colored notebooks, book covers, and folders – one color per subject so that all of their math books & folders are one color, English books another etc. This will help your child keep track of their work and make finding the correct folder easier.

Back to School Tip 4:

Help your child organize their backpack by using color-coded folders and book covers – and you may want to check it the first few weeks to help them keep it organized.

Back to School Tip 5:

Help your child organize their study or homework area so they have the supplies they need in one place. Keep a container filled with the supplies they need. You also want an area that is free of clutter and distractions for them to work in. It can be a desk in their room, in the family room, or even at the kitchen table. You may also want to help them organize their desk (after school) if they have trouble with it on their own.


Ten Minutes to Better Study Skills includes planning calendars and school supply lists for different grade levels. The Writer’s Easy Reference Guide is the ultimate cheat sheet for any writing assignment and the BT Easy Math Guide is the ultimate cheat sheet for any math assignment whether it’s addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, word problems, fractions, decimals, or percents.
My last back to school tip is to remember to enjoy learning, learning should be engaging, interesting, and a bit challenging. For more homework tips, don’t forget to sign up for our 10 free homework tips at the top on the right (above my photo) and start your back to school time with a bang.

Back to School Teleseminar

Thursday August 18th: 5pm PST; 8pm EST

Join Bonnie Terry, M. Ed. BCET, America’s Leading Learning Expert for a Special Back to School Homework Help Tips teleseminar.

For the first time ever, Bonnie is opening up her private Awaken the Scholar Within Call to all parents. This is a one time opportunity to have your  homework help questions answered so that you can set your child up for a successful school year. We will be going over a variety of school tips as well as tips on homework help. You will also have an opportunity to ask your own questions.

Homework time doesn’t have to be difficult anymore!

When my children were in elementary school, my stomach would start to tie up in knots at the beginning of August. I started remembering all the homework hassles we had had the previous school year. I’m a parent too, and my kids were just like yours. They did not like homework.  Eventually I figured it out, how to make homework time a good part of family time. So what can you do to make homework time more pleasurable? Join parenting coach Susan Epstein and myself for our Back to School Homework Help Teleseminar this Thursday night!

Back to School Tips You Will Learn Include:

1. Tips on how to help your child organize their backpacks

 

2. Tips on setting up study space for easier homework time

 

3. Tips on managing homework time

 

FREE Teleseminar is this coming Thursday August 18th 5pm PST 6pm MST 7pm CST 8pm EST

Back to School Homework Help Teleseminar

Just enter in your name and email and you will be sent the call in information.