Back-to-School Tips For Parents
Find tips and strategies to emotionally prepare your child to start the school year from our resident Ph.D. – including a handy checklist.
Back-to-School Tips For Parents
Kindergarten
8 Tips to Keep Kids Loving Reading in a World of Test Prep
8 Tips to Keep Kids Loving Reading in a World of Test Prep
We hope these tipsl help your family keep the spirit of reading alive and well in your home, even as the pressures of standardized testing mount.
Salt Dough Ornament Craft
Salt Dough Ornament Craft
Our go-to salt dough recipe to make together for holiday gifts while practicing sensory and creative skills.
How to Boost Your Child’s Reading Comprehension: 5 Tips that Really Work
How to Boost Your Child’s Reading Comprehension: 5 Tips that Really Work
Peggy Kaye, the designer of HOMER's learning system, is a known literary expert and the author of a series of books that are jammed packed with games that help children learn. She has been a teacher and private tutor for over 40 years and enjoys sharing her...
Back to School Printables
Back to School Printables
Record your child's thoughts before the school year begins with a time capsule and bookmark.
What Does it Mean to be Kindergarten Ready?
What Does it Mean to be Kindergarten Ready?
It’s back to school season and many young learners are embarking on an entirely new adventure – kindergarten! According to the National Center for Education Statistics, students enter kindergarten at very different skills levels, which is natural given that...
Ideas for Teaching Sight Words from the ‘Sight Word King’
Ideas for Teaching Sight Words from the ‘Sight Word King’
Sheena P. has been a part of our Homer Ambassador group for a few months now, and has recently celebrated success with her son being crowned the ‘Sight Word King’ this summer. It’s not easy to get a budding reader excited about sight words, and she’s willingly...
5 Tips To Prevent Summer Slide
5 Tips To Prevent Summer Slide
We’ve all heard about kids losing months of learning over the summer months only to find themselves behind in September. These simple, and fun ways add learning value to your summer vacation.
4 Steps to Creating Your Own Family Code
4 Steps to Creating Your Own Family Code
Not sure if your family is like mine, but we often seem to go in many different directions at once, and just getting the family around the table for dinner at the same time is deemed an achievement. Right now, however, we are at home and spending more time together...
Homer’s Resident PhD Shares Her Family’s Bedtime Routines
Homer’s Resident PhD Shares Her Family’s Bedtime Routines
Our very own Samantha Creighan, Homer’s Director of Children’s Research, has brought incredible insight to our team as we focus on building a child-centered learning product and brand. Not only is she a dedicated researcher with a PhD in cognition and learning, but...
Things Our Kids Teach Us
Things Our Kids Teach Us
Things our kids teach us… Every day, we learn as much from our children and they learn from us. Today, we’re starting a series of shared parent stories about moments in which the child becomes the teacher and the parent gains wisdom. Our first story comes from...
Kindergarten Readiness: Homer Helps Even the Youngest Children Prepare for School
Kindergarten Readiness: Homer Helps Even the Youngest Children Prepare for School
While children don't need to read before kindergarten, these skills make learning to read easier.