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Free Museum Day -Are You Going?

Smithsonian Magazine is offering free admission to hundreds of museums around the country on September 25th. Go to their website to print your tickets and decide which museum you will visit. (PS-You don’t have to be a magazine subscriber to participate.)

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They Just Give it Away?

Need a tutor for your student? Before you run out and hire someone, go check out the Khan Academy. I bet you will find what you are looking for!

“The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) with the mission of providing a world-class education to anyone, anywhere. Despite being the work of one man, Salman Khan, this 1600+ video library is the most-used educational video resource as measured by YouTube video views per day and unique users per month. We are complementing this ever-growing library with user-paced exercises–developed as an open source project–allowing the Khan Academy to become the free classroom for the World.”

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How To Make Your Child a Reader For Life


How to Make Your Child a Reader For Life by Paul Kropp will give you paractical advice to instill a love of reading in your children’s hearts. I love what he writes about in Chapter 1

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Teach Your Toddler to Sew

Adorable right?!

Kate at Minieco is offering these free printable sewing cards.

Your kids will love these

and they will never guess

they areworking on their  fine motor skills

because they will be having so much fun.

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Learn To Draw ….Simply

If you’ve always wanted to learn to draw or you want to teach someone else to draw, I would recommend getting Drawing With Children by Mona Brooks. The book is easy to follow and has some engaging activities.

For free printable exercises to go along with the book…take a look here.

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