Amy Mascott is the creator of teachmama.com, where she shares tools and resources parents can use to become the best teachers for their children. Capitalizing on learning opportunities in the every day and inspiring curiosity through games and play, Amy encourages a ‘lifestyle of learning’ where parents both prepare their children for school and help children to grow excited and informed about the world around them. Recognizing the need for more peer collaboration, Amy built the community ‘we teach’, a forum for parents and teachers to connect, share ideas, and grow as educators-no matter the classroom. ‘we teach’ has quickly become one of the most successful and highly-trafficked educational forums on the web.
A Reading Specialist, writer, consultant, and mom to a crazy-cool 8, 7, and 5-year- old, Amy’s reflections on literacy, parenting, and social media have been featured on dozens of online and print publications, including Scholastic Parents, PBS Parents,readwritethink.org, Mom’s Homeroom, and more. She hails from the Keystone State but lives in the DC Metro area where she’s either cheering for her kids on the soccer field, biting her nails during swim & dive meets, or buzzing around her kids’ elementary school, doing the Room Parent thing.
Slow down, stop, listen, watch, and learn Teaching children to slow down—even occasionally stop—to observe and investigate in a world that values speed, connectivity, movement, and multi-tasking is no easy task. Lucky for us, children have been observing and investigating from the time they were born! Research shows that newborns recognize sounds that they heard [...]
Get kids involved in the process and keep the house together. After the influx of toys and goodies to our house during the holidays, January is an ideal time for re-organizing, re-vamping, and re-evaluating how we manage our home. Toys, school books, sports gear and notes home from school can just about take over any [...]
Use language and play to help kids learn about themselves! One of my kids’ favorite games to play is one I made up on the fly while waiting in a long line at the grocery store. I called it “Find the Body Part” and the objective of the game was just that—for my kids to [...]
A Fun Way To Introduce Science To Kids Talking about the water cycle — collection, precipitation, condensation, and evaporation — helps children to better understand the world around them. It’s a clever way to introduce science to kids. My children loved to shout “Condensation!” while they made ‘clouds’ with their fingers in the air, then [...]
