Our Blog
Welcome to our blog section for Dynamis Learning where you as a parent can obtain valuable educational information. Every week on Tuesday evening, a blog is posted on this website as our goal is to keep parents informed of various topics in the school environment.
Our Blog
Welcome to our blog section for Dynamis Learning where you as a parent can obtain valuable educational information. Every week on Tuesday evening, a blog is posted on this website as our goal is to keep parents informed of various topics in the school environment.
Our Most Recent Blogs
At Dynamis Learning, a team of professional educators meets to select the topics that we feel are current and would be of great interest to our parents. This section will include blogs on topics such as organizational and test taking strategies, ADHD, 504, IEP, Executive Functioning, Dyslexia, Mindfulness, SAT/ACT ideas, and much more. If you have a topic in mind you’d like to see here, please reach out to us in the contact section of this website, and we’ll be happy to provide you with the information. Thank you and we look forward to equipping parents with knowledge on the various educational topics in school systems today.
Why Can’t I Read Like my Friends?
Does your child struggle in reading class? Does he come home consistently with only half his homework written down? Does it take him all night to do his homework, and even then it’s sloppy and only halfway finished? Is he really a bright boy and can recite facts about...
Organization 101: How to Help Your Child Get (and Stay) Organized
Guidance on how to help your child become—and stay—organized “A cluttered desk is a cluttered mind,” the old saying goes, and nothing is truer in education. In our experience as educators, many students who produced the best work and maintained the highest grades...
HALLOWEEN: AN OLD TRADITION
Curious about Halloween and how it’s celebrated around the world? Since Halloween is a popular holiday for kids and adults alike, I thought we would visit its meaning right before 10/31 is upon us. Did you know Halloween is the oldest holiday in the world and is still...
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Blog Archive
Mindfulness tip #3: Routine & Organization
Imagine this scenario in a few short weeks: It’s the second week back at school. The newness has already worn off and the struggle has begun. Clothes are strewn across the floor like fall leaves after a heavy storm. You’ve found part of your clean uniform, but the...
How To Help Your Children Visualize Away Their Stress and Anxiety: Mindfulness Tip #2
Feeling overstimulated and overstressed? Does your heart sometimes beat rapidly and you find you’re having more headaches and stomach aches? Believe it or not, these symptoms do not solely belong to adults. Experts are finding more and more anxiety related conditions...
Mindfulness: Using the Senses to Learn Self-Care
O.K., let’s sit down, get comfortable and take a deep breath. Close your eyes and concentrate on your breathing. In and out, counting to 5 before you inhale and again before you exhale. That’s right, slow it down. Focus on that breathing… For many of you, this may...
July 4th – Making it Real for a New Generation
As the sky darkens and the people gather, anticipating that patriotic show of lights, a small child wonders… He/she knows Christmas is about God, Thanksgiving is about the Pilgrims and turkey. But what exactly is the 4th of July all about? They don’t talk much about...
Diet and ADHD
Do you know or have a child with ADHD? If so, please read this blog to get some tips that may help. There’s a lot of research being done about this condition and your mind is probably already overwhelmed with questions…should I medicate my child? How will this...
The Benefits of Speaking a Second Language
Being bilingual is perceived very differently today than it was, say 30-50 years ago. I had a friend whose parents were both of South American decent, but they did not teach their children how to speak their native language because they were afraid of the stereotypes...
Fight Off Summer Learning Loss by Reading; Summer Reading Lists for Grades 9-12
Current statistics indicate that the summer learning loss phenomena is one of the most significant causes of the achievement gap between lower and higher income students. Additionally, it is a prominent contributor to our nation’s high school dropout rate. For many of...
Fight Off Summer Learning Loss by Reading; Summer Reading Lists for Grades 6-8
Over the summer break, your student will lose 2.6 months of math skills, 2 months of reading skills, and the equivalent of 1 month of overall learning. Additionally, your child will have to spend the first six weeks of school in the Fall to recover this learning. But...
Preparing for the SAT
So now that you’ve gotten your kids this far up to their sophomore, junior or senior year of high school, you should be able to sit back and relax a little, right? Well, not exactly. For many of you, the prospect of college looms brightly in the air. And of course...
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