The official countdown is on for the end of the 2nd nine weeks grading period! This is your friendly reminder to take time to review key concepts your student should have mastered during the 2nd quarter of school and preview those critical skills that will appear in the 3rd...
Teachers don’t really have time to make a special Holiday wish list and if they did, they would probably feel awkward sending that home along with the letter about the upcoming holiday party. So we thought we would make one for them! If you have planned to buy a gift for a...
That time of year is upon us! You can’t even finish eating all of the Halloween candy before feeling like the official countdown to Christmas has begun. In that time period between November 1st and January 3rd, students are out of school an average of 18 days as school...
The sick season is in full force. Everyone either has the flu or some other illness or knows someone who does. Despite all the precautions we take at home and in school, student absences are peaking due to the sicknesses that plague us this time of year. Taking center stage as the 2nd reason for...
We get it, between work, school, family commitments and all of the extracurricular activities, life is very busy, and it can be hard to find extra time - especially this time of year - to help your student study and get in much needed extra practice on those math skills. But if your student...
The first nine weeks is ending and before you know it all the holidays will go rushing by and you will be staring at those end of the year state assessments head on. We have the perfect tool for you to use throughout the year that will help your students have more success! Have you...
Lately we have been getting questions from parents regarding whether or not to attend an upcoming parent-teacher conference and what to ask or expect if they do attend. We have put together a list of helpful tips to help you prepare for a parent-teacher conference (with a math focus of...
Raise your hand if you can remember working your way through the math computational problems on a worksheet and feeling good about the work you had done so far and then BAM…there it was...at the end of the worksheet, a word problem (cue the instrumental score from JAWS). You pumped...
At this point, most everyone in the US has settled into the school year. Many students' math classes are wrapping up their first chapter or getting close to it, and a common theme among many parents is emerging. It goes something like this:
My child just had their first math test...
If you take a walk around your local elementary schools, I can almost guarantee that you will be able to find posters in the classrooms that list the four basic operations of add, subtract, multiply and divide accompanied by a list of “keywords” associated with each operation. I...
Dear Parents,
You are NOT stupid. You're brilliant. But, I would like to call out the elephant in the room: Teachers’ kids have an advantage, plain and simple. The support I have been able to provide to my youngest child seems so unfair in comparison to the support and help in math my...
Here at Ignite Learning Company we recently launched our very first online digital course, Word Problems Unlocked, along with other learning resources for 3rd - 6th grade students and their parents! You've asked so many great questions: "Why 3rd - 6th grade?", "What IS a digital course?", "Are...
