Posts by Tiara Swinson | Genie Academy Blog

How to Help Your Child With School Anxiety

February 16, 2022

The Difference Between Homeschooling and Remote Learning

February 7, 2022

The Pros and Cons of Homeschooling

February 5, 2022

Keep Your Child Safe on Social Media

February 3, 2022

Playing Outside Makes Your Child Smarter

January 28, 2022

Your Child Needs to Play Outdoors

January 27, 2022

Help Your Child Solve Word Problems

January 25, 2022

Help Your Child Understand Word Problems

January 24, 2022

Be Safe with Screen Time

January 18, 2022

How Much is Too Much Extracurricular Activity

January 14, 2022

How to Teach Your Child Positive Thinking

January 11, 2022

8 Ways to Teach Your Child about Money

January 8, 2022

How to Write A 6th Grade Level Essay

January 1, 2022

How to Write A 7th Grade Level Essay

January 1, 2022

What is a Writing Prompt?

January 1, 2022

How to Write A 5th Grade Level Essay

December 29, 2021

How to Write A 4th Grade Level Essay

December 28, 2021

How to Write A 3rd Grade Level Essay

December 22, 2021

Balancing Your Child's Independance

December 16, 2021

How Movement Helps Children Learn

December 15, 2021

Problems with Seventh Grade Math

December 14, 2021

Problems with Seventh Grade English Language Arts

December 13, 2021

Problems with Sixth Grade English Language Arts

December 10, 2021

Problems with Sixth Grade Math

December 8, 2021

Common Problem Areas in Sixth Grade

December 4, 2021

Common Problem Areas in Fifth Grade

December 3, 2021

Problems with Fifth Grade English Language Arts

December 2, 2021

Problems with Fifth Grade Math

December 1, 2021

Common Problem Areas In Fourth Grade

November 28, 2021

Is Your Fourth Grade Student Struggling with Language Arts?

November 26, 2021

Is Your Fourth Grade Student Struggling with Math?

November 24, 2021

Common Problem Areas for Third Grade Students

November 23, 2021

Is Your Third Grade Student Struggling with Reading?

November 19, 2021

Is Your Third Grade Student Struggling with Math?

November 18, 2021

Avoid Whole Language Learning

November 14, 2021

Common Problem Areas for Second Grade Students

November 13, 2021

Is Your Second Grade Student Struggling with Reading?

November 12, 2021

Is Your Second Grade Student Struggling with Math?

November 10, 2021

Common Problem Areas for First Grade Students

November 5, 2021

Is Your First Grade Student Struggling with Math?

November 3, 2021

First Grade Student Struggling with Reading?

November 2, 2021

What is Self Learning and Why is it Important?

October 30, 2021

Does Your Child Have Low Self-Esteem?

October 19, 2021

What Should Your Child Know by Age 7?

October 8, 2021

What Should Your Child Know by Age 6?

October 6, 2021

What Should Your Child Know by Age 5?

October 5, 2021

What Should Your Child Know by Age 4?

October 4, 2021

Signs Your Child is Struggling in School

September 29, 2021

$Teaching Measurements to Your Second Grade Student$

Teaching Measurements to Your Second Grade Student

September 24, 2021

Is Your Child Using Critical Thinking?

September 22, 2021

How to Teach Your Child to Tell Time

January 16, 2020

Juggling Soccer Balls and School Schedules

August 19, 2019

What Sound Does the Letter B Make?

August 13, 2019

Puzzle Power: How Puzzles Help Your Child's Development

August 5, 2019

5 Ways to Make the Most of the Rest of Summer

August 1, 2019

What is a Conjunction? And Other Language Arts Skills Your Child Needs

July 31, 2019

Dumbing Down Reading Is Hurting Your Child's Brain

July 26, 2019

How Your Child Can Become Successful With Coding

July 25, 2019

How To Improve Your Child's Handwriting

July 24, 2019

Is Giving Your Child an Allowance Really the Best?

July 19, 2019

Why Your Child Should Learn Music

July 17, 2019

Learn Math Through Art - How to Teach a Visual Learner

July 12, 2019

How to Teach Your Child Proper Writing Skills for Longer Essays

July 11, 2019

4 Reasons Why Everyone Should Care About Math

July 9, 2019

Let Your Child Explore Math Their Way

July 6, 2019

3 Easy Ways to Help Your Kids Fall in Love with Math

July 3, 2019

Coding as a Second Language: A Powerful Way to Grow Your Child's Brain

June 27, 2019

How Do I Improve My Child's Reading Comprehension?

June 25, 2019

Is Your Child Meeting 5th Grade English Language Arts Standards?

June 20, 2019

Has Your Child Met the 5th Grade Math Common Core Standards?

June 19, 2019

Boosting Creative Writing Skills Through Coding

June 13, 2019

Learn a New Skill this Summer - Learn to Code!

June 11, 2019

Has Your Child Met the 4th Grade Math Common Core Standards?

June 7, 2019

Why is it Better for Kids Learn to Code in Class?

June 4, 2019

How Learning to Code Helps Your Child's Math Skills

May 31, 2019

Has Your Child met the 3rd Grade English Common Core Standards?

May 29, 2019

What is the Summer Slide?

May 27, 2019

Where Can Kids Learn to Code at Home?

May 22, 2019

Has Your Child Met the 3rd Grade Math Common Core Standards?

May 17, 2019

Has Your Child Met the 2nd Grade ELA Core Standards?

May 10, 2019

Has Your Child Met the 2nd Grade Math Common Core Standards?

May 9, 2019

4 Ways to Help Your Child Get Ready for Kindergarten Math

May 2, 2019

How Standardized Testing Hurts Teachers

April 30, 2019

How Standardized Tests Affect Student Performance

April 25, 2019

Has Your Child Met the 1st Grade Math Common Core Standards?

April 24, 2019

Has Your Child Met the Kindergarten Common Core Standards?

April 23, 2019

What is Expository Writing?

April 18, 2019

Understanding and Teaching Narrative Writing

April 16, 2019

How to Teach Persuasive Writing to Your Kids

April 15, 2019

How to Help Your Child Be A Descriptive Writer

April 11, 2019

Why Your Kids Should Play with Computers

April 9, 2019

5 Signs to Know if Your Child is Ready For Preschool

April 8, 2019

How Public Speaking Improves Your Child's Writing Skills

April 5, 2019

Is Your Toddler Developing Bad Habits? How to Know and What to Do

April 3, 2019

Understanding Common Core: Benefits of the Common Core System

April 2, 2019

Pros And Cons Of Preschool

March 29, 2019

How to Get My Child to Focus on Their Reading

March 21, 2019

Why Your Child Should Keep a Daily Journal

March 19, 2019

How to Avoid Becoming a Parent who Cheats on College Admissions

March 15, 2019

How Drawing Can Help Your Child Learn to Write

March 14, 2019

Why Should You Teach Your Child Phonics

March 13, 2019

Why Teaching Phonics is So Hard

March 8, 2019

How Your Child can Use the Internet Productively

March 6, 2019

Creativity and Coding: Why Artistic Students Should Learn to Code

March 2, 2019

Why Your Child Needs to Practice Their Sight Words Every Day

February 28, 2019

The Importance of Spelling in the Digital World

February 23, 2019

Are Math Standards Pulling Away from Common Core?

February 22, 2019

Amazon Delves Into Early Childhood Education

February 19, 2019

Why are Math Scores Dropping in America?

February 16, 2019

How Phonics Impacts Your Child's Reading and Writing Skills

February 12, 2019

Raising a Leader: What Every Parent Should Know

February 7, 2019

Why Schools Are Not teaching Vocabulary Skills? Know It's Importance

February 6, 2019

Make Math Fun in Middle School

February 1, 2019

Genie Academy's Guide to Brain Development in Toddlers with Naptime

January 30, 2019

How Your Child can Succeed in the New Job Market

January 26, 2019

Why Schools Are Not Teaching Language Arts & Why It's Important

January 25, 2019

How to Make Math Fun for Your Child

January 23, 2019

Importance of Reading Comprehension in High School

January 9, 2019

Reading Comprehension in Middle School

January 3, 2019

$Does Your Child Understand Math Language?$

Does Your Child Understand Math Language?

January 2, 2019

Your Child's Future Is Brighter with Programming

December 19, 2018

How to Increase Reading Comprehension for all Ages

December 14, 2018

The Negative Impact of Standardized Testing on Students and Scores

December 10, 2018

How Much Independence Should Your Child Have?

December 7, 2018

$Why Worry About Math Vocabulary?$

Why Worry About Math Vocabulary?

December 3, 2018

Public vs Private Schools: What's the Difference?

November 30, 2018

Stop Forcing Kids to Memorize Math

November 26, 2018

My Child Is Bored in School

November 24, 2018

How Computer Programming Boosts Academic Skills

November 20, 2018

Why Your Child Should Learn Computer Programming

November 16, 2018

Phonics: It's Critical to Your Child's Academic Success

November 12, 2018

Is Your First Grade Reader on Track? Important Cues to Look For

November 8, 2018

Critical Language Arts Skills Your Child Should Learn

November 5, 2018

What to Do if Your Child Is Falling Behind

November 2, 2018

Why Don't American Kids Learn Math?

October 29, 2018

How Do You Know if Your Child is Falling Behind?

October 24, 2018

Teach Your Child to Spell in 4 Easy Steps

October 20, 2018

How to Teach Your Child Word Problems

October 17, 2018

Is Your Child Under Too Much Pressure?

October 11, 2018

K-7 Reading Benchmarks: Is Your Child on Target?

October 9, 2018

How To Help Your Child Deal With Change

October 5, 2018

What is The Growth Mindset and Does Your Child Have It?

October 5, 2018

How Do I Help My Child be a More Creative Writer?

October 2, 2018

How Can Reading Poetry Help Your Child's Reading and Writing Skills?

September 24, 2018

Your Child's Ability to Learn is Based on the Executive Function

September 21, 2018

Understanding the Importance of Pre-teaching Materials

September 15, 2018

Temper Tantrums: How to Help Your Child Control Their Emotions

September 11, 2018

Students Who Write More, Learn More

September 10, 2018

4 Ways to Make Reading Fun for Your Toddler

September 8, 2018

Read Even After the School Bell Rings

September 6, 2018

Why You Need to Encourage Your Daughter to Pursue Math and Science

September 5, 2018

Math in the Kitchen - Why Math Skills are Invaluable

August 30, 2018

Spoken Word: How Reading Your Writing Aloud Improves Your Skills

August 27, 2018

Your Child Needs to Fail in order to Grow

August 24, 2018

You Can Code Too! Parents Should Learn Computer Coding

August 21, 2018

How to Talk to Your Child About Bullying

August 20, 2018

The 5 Steps to Writing a 5 Paragraph Essay

August 19, 2018

When Should You Turn off Your Child's Computer?

August 16, 2018

These Different Writing Styles will Make Your Child a Great Writer

August 2, 2018

Why Your Child Should Learn Computers

August 2, 2018

The Do's and Don'ts of Teaching Your Toddler to Read

August 1, 2018

Top 3 Ways to Flourish Your Child's Creative Writing Skills

July 21, 2018

How To Teach Problem Solving to Kids

June 28, 2018

Helicopter Parenting Will Crash and Burn Your Child's Future

June 27, 2018

What Asian Americans Need to Know about College Admissions

June 26, 2018

Unplug and Reconnect: How to Build Stronger Connections at Home

June 22, 2018

Mindful Parenting is Better Parenting

June 21, 2018

Is Common Core Failing?

June 20, 2018

How to Teach Active Listening Skills to Your Child

June 16, 2018

Are You Really Listening to Your Child?

June 15, 2018

Handwriting is Making A Come Back

June 4, 2018

Coming Soon, Summer Workshops!

May 21, 2018

Getting Ahead and Staying Ahead this Summer

May 15, 2018

What is the Summer Learning Loss and Why Should You Care?

May 14, 2018

$Announcing Writing Contest Winners$

Announcing Writing Contest Winners

May 7, 2018

Fourth Grade Writing Champion: Grishmaa

May 7, 2018

Kindergarten Writing Champion: Sebastian

May 7, 2018

Second Grade Writing Champion: Kritha

May 7, 2018

Wait a Minute, PARCC Isn't Leaving Next Year?

May 4, 2018

Early Signs of Academic Disabilities

April 19, 2018

What Does PARCC Really Mean for Your Student?

April 14, 2018

5 Steps to Eliminate Test Anxiety

April 12, 2018

Growth Mindset and the “Math Brain”

April 10, 2018

Recognizing and Correcting Impulse Control in Your Child

April 9, 2018

$The Math Gender Gap Can Start as Early as Kindergarten$

The Math Gender Gap Can Start as Early as Kindergarten

April 8, 2018

First Steps to Separate NJ Schools from PARCC

March 30, 2018

$3...2...1...FUN! Genie Academy Opens New Location in Plainsboro!$

3...2...1...FUN! Genie Academy Opens New Location in Plainsboro!

March 27, 2018

7 Easy Steps to Raise Independent Children

March 26, 2018

Can Your Child Recognize Numbers?

March 20, 2018

The Science Behind the Abacus

March 15, 2018

$From Abacus to Advanced Number Theory$

From Abacus to Advanced Number Theory

March 8, 2018

Don't Be A Helicopter Parent

March 2, 2018

How to Solve a Word Problem

February 27, 2018

Why Your Child Needs the Abacus

February 26, 2018

$Mental Math Makes Students Shine$

Mental Math Makes Students Shine

February 23, 2018

The Abacus is the Key to Every Math Problem

February 23, 2018

My Child Missed the Cutoff, Now What?

February 20, 2018

Say No To Redshirting

February 20, 2018

Mindfulness Matters: The Benefits of Meditation for Children

February 15, 2018

All About Fractions (Part 1)

February 13, 2018

Abacus Defeats Math Anxiety

February 5, 2018

$Learning the Abacus is Learning to Learn$

Learning the Abacus is Learning to Learn

February 1, 2018

How the Abacus is the Best Way to Learn Decomposition

January 30, 2018

Should My Child Have Screen Time?

January 26, 2018

Life Without PARCC

January 25, 2018

NJ English Language Arts SLS for Grade 3

January 25, 2018

NJ English Language Arts SLS for Grade 4

January 25, 2018

NJ English Language Arts SLS for Grade 5

January 25, 2018

NJ Kindergarten SLS for English Language Arts

January 25, 2018

$NJ Mathematics SLS for Grade 4$

NJ Mathematics SLS for Grade 4

January 25, 2018

NJ Mathematics SLS for Grade 5

January 25, 2018

NJ English Language Arts SLS for Grade 2

January 25, 2018

NJ Kindergarten SLS for Mathemetics

January 25, 2018

NJ Mathematics SLS for Grade 2

January 25, 2018

Goodbye PARCC. You won't be missed

January 16, 2018

Ways to Help Your Child Greet New People

January 11, 2018

Math, Reading and Writing: Public Education is Making a Comeback

January 5, 2018

The Proper Way to Hold a Pencil

September 22, 2016