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Monthly Archives: August 2018

How I Got What I Wanted By Giving My Kids What They Wanted Here’s how I got my kids to read books: I gave in and gave them their iPads. Literally, everything changed overnight. My daughter went from grudgingly reading 3 pages on Tuesday night to reading over 117 pages […]

When the I in iPad Stands For Incentive

August 31, 2018 in Parenting Like I Know What I'm Doing by Maria Burns Ortiz

Hello everyone. We know you’re looking forward to the weekend already, but before we get there we have today’s Freebie Friday for you. Today’s freebie is from Forgotten Trail and it’s the list of math standards in the game. When you use our games to supplement your teaching, we want […]

Freebie Friday: Forgotten Trail Math Standards

August 31, 2018 in 7GenGames / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday tagged 7 Generation Games / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday by Diana Sanchez

Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from June 14, 2015 “More Advice on Life: Enjoy it While It Happens” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. “Advice # 4: Appreciate how great life really […]

Throwback Thursday – More Advice on Life: Enjoy it While ...

August 30, 2018 in AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday by Diana Sanchez

Making Camp Premium, the newest game from 7 Generation Games, has won the Parent and Teacher Choice Award for Best Mobile App from HowtoLearn.com. The Parent and Teacher Choice Awards honors the best in educational products and services. Making Camp Premium was unanimously selected by the parent and teacher judges […]

Making Camp Premium Wins Parent and Teacher Choice Award!

August 28, 2018 in Educational Games / Educational Resources by Sabrena Youngerman

This past summer, I participated in a teaching fellowship training program. What this means is, I was able to get hands on teaching experience, while being taught how to become a better teacher myself. Over the course of the five weeks, I designed lesson plans, taught a 9th grade English […]

How 7 Generation Games is Closing the Equity Gap

August 28, 2018 in Intern Diaries by Sabrena Youngerman

While parents choose to homeschool for a wide variety of reasons – at the end of the day, there’s one driving factor at the center of that decision – the best interest of their child. Even if you know that homeschool is the right choice for your child – that […]

SPED Homeschool: Special Education Resources for Homeschoolers

August 27, 2018 in Educational Resources by Sabrena Youngerman

Hello everyone! It’s the end of the week and that means that it’s that time again. It’s time for the Freebie Friday. Today’s freebie is from AzTech Games and it’s a video on history terms. In the video “What’s the Word? World History Terms”, you’ll learn terms such as ancient, […]

Freebie Friday: What’s the Word? – World History Terms

August 24, 2018 in 7GenGames / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday tagged 7 Generation Games / Educational Resources / Freebie Friday by Diana Sanchez

Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from May 2, 2015 “NOT DEAD YET and The R Word” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. I’m not quite to the age where when I drop […]

Throwback Thursday: NOT DEAD YET and The R Word

August 23, 2018 in AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday tagged AnnMaria / Throwback Thursday by Diana Sanchez

Since my kids go back to school tomorrow, I thought today would be a good day for a run-through. You know, get everyone up and ready at an hour that would at least allow me to pretend that we have a shot of getting out the door without complete chaos […]

Getting Ready to Be Back-to-School Ready

August 22, 2018 in Parenting Like I Know What I'm Doing by Maria Burns Ortiz

Starting a new job can be scary. When I started here last week I did not know what to expect, but I knew I had no reason to be scared! Here are five things I have learned so far in my first week as the new intern. 1. When you […]

5 Things I Learned in my First Week as a ...

August 21, 2018 in Intern Diaries by Sabrena Youngerman

Chicken — As your social media feeds have likely informed you, it’s back-to-school season. Dozens of photos of happy children heading off to their first days of a new school year, smiling and – for those who have on top of it parents (i.e. not my children) – holding cute message boards […]

Startup Lessons from Children’s Literature: The Little Red Hen

August 20, 2018 in Start-up Diaries by Maria Burns Ortiz

trail on top of a mountain — A lot of people say they are a workaholic but they actually work for half an hour, check Facebook for half an hour, work for another half-hour, fix themselves a snack, and so on. Their 12- 14 hour work day is more like a 6 or 7 hours of actual […]

Testing a theory that you don’t have to die at ...

August 18, 2018 in AnnMaria / Start-up Diaries by AnnMaria De Mars