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Midvale Elementary School students Ashley and Omar work on a STEM Lego engineering activity at the Midvale school on Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019. | Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News The Utah Legislature is currently engaged in what the Utah Citizens’ Counsel believes are shortsighted budget cut discussions, including 2-10% cuts in its 2020-2021 base budget and repeal of all new money appropriated at the end of its 2020 legislative session. Such action, resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic and anticipated state revenue losses, is premature and ill-advised because the projections of revenue losses are overly pessimistic, outdated, with unreliable ranges; bonding...

Have on-site camp programs gotten the go-ahead where you live, or do virtual summer camps seem to be the only option? Or are things still up in the air? In my area, some camps already made the decision a couple of months ago to go virtual this year, while others only recently announced that they’ll have in-person programming available. We all know that virtual camps aren’t ideal, of course (as recent articles have pointed out), but for most families, they’re better than nothing — especially because a lot of places that provide kids’ extracurricular activities still haven’t reopened in some...

Photo: istock With Father’s Day just around the corner and the days getting longer, reading to our children at bedtime is one of the best ways to wind down after a busy summer day. The time a parent spends reading with his child is one of the most consistent links to that child achieving positive literacy scores throughout his or her schooling. It’s a period that not only helps children academically but strengthens the bond you have with them and creates memories to last a lifetime. Children will always remember bedtime stories and the lessons that these stories bring. These...

Celebrate Star Wars Day on May 4th with these super cute, printable Star Wars Worksheets from a galaxy far far away! These free worksheets are such a fun learning activity for kids from preschool, pre k, kindergarten, first grade, and 2nd grade students. Star Wars Worksheets This fun and free Star Wars Printable Pack is […] The post Star Wars Worksheets appeared first on 123 Homeschool 4 Me.

Thanks for being a Waugh Zone subscriber. Know someone who’d like it? Share the sign-up link with them.   Playing catch-up It was the news many parents, and pupils, had been dreading. Yes, education secretary Gavin Williamson confirmed today he would not meet the prime minister’s ‘ambition’ to give all primary pupils at least a month’s classroom time before summer. Millions of children will have to wait until September at the earliest before they see their teachers in person again. As I’ve written before, education has been the poor relation of this pandemic. It was inevitable that health and the...