Fall Activities That Build Your Child’s Academic Skills by Dr. Emily Levy, Founder & Director, EBL Coaching
October 6th, 2025
Fall is a festive time of year, filled with colorful leaves, pumpkin flavors, apple cider, and candy corn. It is also a great season for learning! Help your child develop stronger reading, writing, and math skills with the fall-themed activities detailed below. Reading Rhyming Your child can develop stronger phonemic awareness skills - a ...
Project Moonbeam by Andrea Santo Felcone
May 26th, 2017
“No… no… no. Not at this point in the school year … not the project bag.” But, there it is, slung casually over my youngest son’s shoulder as he approaches during school dismissal. Big smile on his face. He’s been waiting for that project bag—it’s a big deal in his ...
Unmotivated Fifth Grader by Robin Gorman Newman
March 21st, 2014
What to do when it seems as if your kid does as little as possible to get by in school? We had our parent teacher meeting tonite, and the teachers' main concern was that Seth just wants to get by. At home, one of his favorite words has become "whatever." He's a tween...I ...
sNOw Good by Dina Ramon
March 7th, 2013
My anticipation is mixed with some dread. It’s the night before a predicted, major snowstorm, and where I live, the mere threat means that whoever the mysterious person is who makes the decision is probably going to cancel school before they even see a flake. I wait anxiously to see the ...
