HIGHLIGHT MONDAY: Educationtipster Blog

Kathy Stemke is the author and educator behind Educationtipster, a great blog aimed to help parents and teachers through book reviews, movement activities and great tips!

Kathy has a passion for all things creative, including writing and the arts.  She has a B.S. from Southern Connecticut State University and Covenant Life Seminary, as well as graduate coursework from New York Institute of Technology and Columbia University.

As a freelance writer, Kathy has published several articles.  She is a contributing editor for The National Writing for Children's Center.  Kathy's first children's book, "Moving through All Seven Days," came out in 2009.  She has many more books coming out this year!

Kathy uses her talents in her blog to help her readers.  One great example of how she give great advice can be found below.  Click on Read More below for an example of Kathy's blog posts...

HIGHLIGHT MONDAY: Grandad Science

I came across GrandadScience.com months ago and have wanted to highlight it for all of you.  It is a website, run by a Grandfather, who posts about interesting activities for kids that their grandparents or parents can do with them.

GrandadScience is a mathematics and science educator himself who is not happy with what is happening with kids in their homes and schools today.  He dedicates himself to posting about things that will maintain kids interest in learning as opposed to mastering content.  He not only tells you how to do it with photos, instructions, and sometimes even videos- but he also does these activities with his own grandchildren and highlights his family in this quality website.

It's so refreshing to find resources like GrandadScience that have such great and simple activities that we can use with our children to encourage and promote real learning!  GrandadScience's way of thinking is just what we need today!


Click on READ MORE below for examples of activities on GrandadScience.com...

Finding the Cheapest Text Books... could it possibly be easy?

Attending college can be quite the expense but often a necessary means to your career goal. The tuition itself can be such a struggle but thankfully we have student loans, grants and scholarships. Then once we get to college we have a huge list of textbooks to buy and suddenly you need even more money. Searching for the lowest prices can be time consuming but I recently stumbled upon a site that does all of the work for you!

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