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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 |
By: Heidi Blackwelder The first three years of a child’s life are the most important years for healthy speech development, because this is the time when the brain does most of its growing and maturing. In fact, during this time there are “critical periods” for speech development, where the brain is most able…
I do not always love my students. To say otherwise would be a lie, an attempt to convince myself and others of a fact that simply cannot be true. My students come from varied backgrounds, and having grown up in an upper middle class family, I can sometimes find it hard to relate. This particular…
WE NEED YOUR HELP!!! We want to win Fashions for Evergreens at the Hotel Roanoke This year and we know just how to do it! With your home made ornaments – we can make our tree truly a “Homegrown Tree” made by kids who are “Growing Up In the Valley!” Check out our Pinterest…
How to Handle a “Poor” Report Card Tips for helping your children when they are struggling to get Good Grades By: Linda Leap, Center Director Sylvan Learning of Roanoke It’s that time of the school year again – report card time. While many students will come home with good grades, others…
Now that children are back in school, there are papers to write, homework to complete and tests to study for. And for high school students in Virginia, Economics and Personal Finance is now part of the curriculum. Beginning with students who entered the ninth grade during the 2011-12 school year, a one-credit Economics and Personal…
Most people can blow out a cake-full of candles with a single breath. Blowing out a single candle is even easier, right? The next time someone has a birthday, try this experiment. What you need: A plastic funnel A birthday candle (or a regular candle) in a candle holder What to do: Have…
Did you know proficient reading by the end of third grade is a significant predictor of future academic and life success? However, learning to read well begins long before a child enters elementary school. According to literacy experts, reading proficiently results from a combination of experiences and skill building that begins in the earliest years…
When Eric Layman of Botetourt County took his wife Sharon to an 87-acre field in Blue Ridge, she stepped out of the car a little surprised. “Can you see it?” he asked her. “This is going to be our future.” That was 8 years ago. Now that 87 acres has been converted to a family…
