Miss Danielle Voit is the Director of HEROES Academy for the Gifted.
Noah’s entrance into the world was a reminder that motherhood is filled with the unexpected. Plans are just that — plans, and they’re almost always going to change with a little one around! I’d planned to labor at home, deliver in a birth center, and return home with my newborn baby within hours of delivery. …
What is the LinkIT test? LinkIt! is not actually a specific test. Instead, it’s a K-12 Assessment Solution, allowing administrators and/or teachers to build tests using the LinkIT test bank. When creating a test, administrators can search by standard or skill, question type, difficulty, language, passage genre, passage length, passage complexity, and more. LinkIt has …
Overview Before children learn to perform operations with fractions, they should first fully comprehend what a fraction is. Third grade students should be able to interpret fractions as: An equal part of one whole, An equal subset of a set, and A point on a number line. I’ve adapted a craft, a game, and puzzle …
Teaching Identifying Fractions to 3rd Grade Math Students Read More »
What is your child’s favorite book? Help another parent, leave a suggestion in the comments! I LOVE ‘playing librarian.’ If you’ve been to HEROES, you’ve seen our library. It’s on the small side – with just about 1,000 books BUT I’ve read every single one of them! This makes it both easy and fun to …
It’s no secret. Many parents of gifted children see their children growing up to work in STEM related fields — research science, technology, computer science, and medicine are more sought after than nearly any other profession. Unless a gifted child strongly favors language and writing, parents often seek out advancement opportunities for math, science, and technology …
What is Accelerated Reader (AR)? Accelerated Reader is a computer based leveled reading program from Renaissance Learning. It’s used to monitor student reading progress and practice by recommending books based on a student’s reading level, presenting students with quizzes on what they read, and awarding points for quiz completion. Books are worth varying points. By …
License: Creative Commons 3 – CC BY-SA 3.0 Attribution: Alpha Stock Images – http://alphastockimages.com/ Original Author: Nick Youngson – link to – http://www.nyphotographic.com/ Original Image: https://www.thebluediamondgallery.com/wooden-tile/p/planning.html I’ve spent more than half of my life preparing for my child’s homeschool journey. The time has finally (almost) come to use this plan; Baby Voit is due in …
Planning my Child’s Homeschooling Journey: From Birth Through Highschool Read More »
Wow! It’s been quite a year. The school year isn’t quite over, but it’s hard to resist taking a moment to reflect on the school year. Construction in the middle of a pandemic was anything but easy, and I would have certainly thought that building this school would be my “great accomplishment” of the year. …
We Made it: A Year of In-Person Learning Amidst COVID Read More »
Early literacy gives students the foundation they need to learn and grow in all aspects of their education and life. From learning the ABCs to becoming independent readers, parental involvement makes a huge difference in a child’s success. It’s important to start reading with your child from the very beginning. It’s never too early to …
Math is not about crunching numbers; true math is about pattern recognition and logic. This does not mean that mastering basic calculations is not important. Learning math facts is like learning the alphabet. A child who must sound out words, syllable by syllable is not able to comprehend a reading passage. Likewise, a child who …
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