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Adventure Us: Roanoke area day trips, Part I
By Cristy Carr |
Virginia’s Native Allspice
By Tim Carr |
Roaming Roanoke: Little Green Hive
By Angela Evans |
The 5-Minute Answer: What is Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)?
By Marissa Siegel |
How the New Normal Brought Back Family Dinners
By Kristy Wyatt |
Homeschooling Moms Share Tips to New Homeschoolers As the new coronavirus, COVID-19, has shuttered schools, parents find themselves teaching their own kids at home. Don’t know what you’re doing? That’s OK. Today Parents has some advice straight from moms who have been homeschooling for years. 1. Hold a Family Meeting Heather Bowen, a mom of two from…
AAP Study Confirms Kids Get Less Severe Coronavirus; Infants More at Risk A new study confirms that coronavirus has been less severe in children, although infants in China had higher rates of serious symptoms. It has been appeared for sometime that children are less seriously affected than adults, but a new analysis of data from China…
Covid-19 FAQs from the CDC What is the risk of my child becoming sick with COVID-19? Based on available evidence, children do not appear to be at higher risk for COVID-19 than adults. While some children and infants have been sick with COVID-19, adults make up most of the known cases to date. How can…
Best Practices to Keep Your Children Healthy: – Hand Hygiene: Frequent hand washing with soap and water or hand sanitizer. – Avoid touching your face or eyes. – Social distancing: Avoid public spaces like playgrounds, restaurants, churches, and movie theaters. – Maintain 3–6 feet of distance from others. – Avoid shaking or touching hands. –…
1. The Water Bottle Egg Separator What you’ll need: Raw egg, two bowls (or plates), empty water bottle, [optional] food coloring How does this work? When you squeeze the bottle, you force air out. When you place the mouth of the bottle over the yolk and stop squeezing, you create suction, as air (and yolk) rush…
ONE It’s a myth that America was the first country to practice Daylight Saving Time. It is believed to have begun in Britain, but Germany was actually the first country to have recorded observing DST in May 1916. (They did it to save fuel for factories during World War I.) TWO Daylight Saving…
1. Fairness fair·ness noun. The quality or state of being fair; especially: fair or impartial treatment. “[B]eing regarded as fair by students is vitally important to how students receive [their educators] as human beings as well as their teachers. It’s difficult to believe that the unfair teacher is either accepted, respected, or effective.” – Robert L.…
We all know about the Egyptian pyramids and the Great Pyramid of Giza. But the ancient world — as well as our more recent one — spawned many other strange pyramids, from Rome to Iran, and all the way to Mexico and Scotland. 1. Pyramid of Cestius Rome might be famous for the Colosseum, but the Italian capital also…
It’s Tuesday, January 28, and do you know what that means? It means it’s National Blueberry Pancake Day and Top Ten Tuesday! Blueberry pancakes are delish, of course, and at the end of this post you’ll find a recipe for the best blueberry pancakes ever. There are so many ways to take pancakes to the…
Did you know that January 7 is Old Rock Day? It’s the day to celebrate old rocks and fossils! So, in honor of Old Rock Day 2020, here are our top ten fossil discoveries of the twentieth century: 1. Blood-engorged mosquito. In 2013, in a pond in Montana, a prehistoric mosquito was discovered encased in…
