Try These At-Home Listening Activities

While listening skills are practiced every day in preschool and kindergarten classrooms, it is up to parents to continue building those listening skills at home. Former kindergarten teacher Ilene Vitkus shared some of her classroom tactics to make at-home listening activities both fun and beneficial. Draw This! Bring out the crayons and paper and instruct

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Featured Teacher: Amy Tanner

Amy Tanner is our December/January Featured Teacher! Read below about what makes her an amazing featured teacher in Alachua County. AT WHAT SCHOOL DO YOU CURRENTLY WORK? Glen Springs Elementary WHAT GRADE/AGE DO YOU TEACH? I teach in the Project Friends Program, which is Multi-Age (K-2), but teach all our 2nd Graders this year! HOW

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7 Golden Beauty Products You’ll Love!

Now that Florida is starting to reopen again since the onset of COVID-19, it's time to get your skin ready to see other people again. If you want to look fresh, glowy and golden as you emerge from quarantine, then try these seven golden beauty products! CRUNCHI LIGHT REFLECTING PRESSED HIGHLIGHTER Gold pigment and light

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7 Best Moisturizers For Your Skin

  There is nothing more important in your makeup kit than your daily face moisturizer. It can protect, tighten, soothe and replenish from even the harshest of elements. From protecting it against the weather or fighting the hands of time, here are some of the best moisturizers for your skin! Bliss Ex-Glow-Sion Super Rich Moisturizer;

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Protect Your Child from the Sun’s Harmful Rays

Nestled in the middle of the sunshine state, Gainesville provides plenty of opportunities for people to enjoy the outdoors. But, parents have to be careful about sun exposure and make sure they are protecting their children, especially infants. Nothing dampens a great day spent outside more than being stuck with a terrible, painful sunburn. And,

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JUULs and Teens: The Vaping Epidemic

Being the daughter of a pulmonologist, I was taught to never smoke around the same time I was learning my ABCs. My mom found a photo I drew when I was about 5 years old that depicted a scribbly version of the “no smoking” sign. I had to have been the youngest spokesperson for “Tobacco

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Summer Fun Bucket List!

By Isabella Sorresso School is out and there is finally time to have some fun with the with the whole family. But what to do? Here are a few ideas of things to do and places to go in Gainesville to make this summer one to remember! Visit the Cade Museum Check out the brand

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