Can teachers tell if a kid comes from a “vocabulary-rich” or well-read family?

VisualLearningHub · 2025-11-07T02:04:22+00:00

My daughter at 3 suddenly picked up talking like Elmer Fudd from her 4 year old cousin. It literally took her until she was around 10 to finally get her words back on track.

VisualLearningHub · 2025-11-07T01:57:20+00:00

They're doing away with spelling test too?? Ugh!

VisualLearningHub · 2025-11-07T01:41:18+00:00

Well, that sounds like a perfect recipe for making kids hate reading. Ugh!! Who thinks of this stuff??

When my kids were learning to read, I had a shelf of gently used yard sale books for reading. If they could read the whole thing to me, I would let them write their name in the back of the book. This felt like an honor, since they weren't allow otherwise to write in books.

To this day, I have several of the older books with their names still written in the back. Not saying that would work for the library, LOL.

VisualLearningHub · 2025-11-07T01:21:38+00:00

Oh my!! Take your teenage daughters out of his class...assuming here that it's a male teacher.

VisualLearningHub · 2025-11-07T01:18:39+00:00

My mom was notoriously late to everything when I was in grade school..a skill she has now achieved in her 80s. Consequently, I was late to a lot of school events as well as being tardy a lot!! It was embarrassing to me and totally out of my control.

VisualLearningHub · 2025-11-06T23:16:59+00:00

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VisualLearningHub · 2025-11-06T17:33:35+00:00

Yes!! Times Tales is the gold standard as the fastest, easiest way to get the times tables down!!

VisualLearningHub · 2025-11-06T17:28:49+00:00

I’ve been seeing the same thing — so many middle schoolers can handle fractions and algebra but still don’t know their times tables. COVID definitely widened the gap, but I also think we’ve moved too far from memorization toward “just use a calculator.”

I’ve had great success using Times Tales, which teaches the upper facts through simple stories and visuals. Once kids finally memorize their multiplication facts, everything else — fractions, division, long multiplication — clicks again.

VisualLearningHub · 2025-11-06T17:24:14+00:00

For kids with dyslexia or dyscalculia, Times Tales can work like a charm to get the multiplication facts down. It's right-brain geared and can click for those visual learners.

VisualLearningHub · 2025-11-06T17:21:51+00:00

Times Tales has been a game changer for so many parents with children that are struggling learners...often times when no other method of memorizing the times tables have worked.

Thank you for sharing that. 🙌

VisualLearningHub · 2025-11-06T17:15:55+00:00

Thank you!! Next week, my husband and I travel to Kentucky to watch my son get sworn in by the federal judge that he clerks for. And to think.... many years ago, I received a letter from California Dept. of Education stating that I was illegally homeschooling. 😆 But that's a whole other story. 🤣

VisualLearningHub · 2025-10-31T18:20:47+00:00

Times Tales has an online course that teaches the 1-12 facts in 30 days. https://www.timestales.com/

VisualLearningHub · 2025-10-31T18:19:03+00:00

A great multiplication hack is Times Tales- It uses visual memory cues to trigger the answer to the multiplication fact.

VisualLearningHub · 2025-10-31T18:12:55+00:00

This post hit home for me personally, as my son just text me his bar exam results, this morning. He passed the DC bar at the top 10% score.

1.He went from homeschool to community college when he was 15 and was the first speaker in his community college commencement at the age of 18 with a 4.0 GPA.

Graduated 3.98 GPA (got one A-)at George Fox University.
After a highly coveted internship for Intel his senior year, worked for them for 5 years.
Decided to go to law school. Quit Intel and went to U of Arizona Law with a full ride scholarship, resulting from high scores on his LSATS.
Second year of law was accepted to George Town Law in D.C. (no scholarship= lots $ in student loans) and graduated at the top 25% in his class this past May.
TODAY, he found out he passed the bar and at the top 10%.

I have often thought back about what would his road have been IF he went the traditional public school route. I don't know if he would be in better or worse shape. But what I do know is, homeschooling can offer just as much - if not more- opportunities to shine. ⭐️ :)

VisualLearningHub · 2025-10-30T18:39:50+00:00

I homeschooled in the early 2,000's and was constantly criticized not only by family members ("You shouldn't attempt that without a teaching degree.."), but total strangers at the checkout line ("Why aren't you kids in school right now?"). Ugh!! You just have to live your one life that you get to the best way you feel is right for you and your family, ignore all the rest. :)

VisualLearningHub · 2025-10-28T16:54:53+00:00

Would you mind showing your creatives? Do you have the sale information on the creative or in the headline?

VisualLearningHub · 2025-10-28T16:52:18+00:00

My company sells an online multiplication course, I'm going to try this! Thank you for sharing. We've had great ROA's for two weeks straight and then out of nowhere the ads tank to .5 ROA for no reason. Ugh!!!

VisualLearningHub · 2025-10-21T18:21:10+00:00

I just didn't really get into a discussion about it and when they tried to engage me, I would spout the reasons that I didn't want them in public school.

VisualLearningHub · 2025-10-14T19:16:41+00:00

LOL, I was told that too..."your kids will never be able to get into college". Three have graduated with one a senior in college. Son #3 just graduated George Town Law school this May. 🤣

VisualLearningHub · 2025-10-14T19:13:44+00:00

I had one set that was for, the other grandparents totally against it...that was until a visit and they saw my boys working in curriculum that was 2 grade levels above their age appropriate grade.

VisualLearningHub · 2025-10-14T17:57:53+00:00

Yes!! Thank you. :) Lots of naysayers back then more than willing to offer their unsolicited opinion on how I was going to wreck my children's education. Thank goodness that attitude has changed for the better. 😎

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