Care package ideas for college students

When your child goes off to school, your responsibilities as the parent does not end.  College can be a very hard transition, even for the most mature and well adjusted 18-year-old. In addition to talking to your child regularly, sending care packages is also a must. Depending on the needs of your child, care packages can contain a variety of items. A care package should show your child you care, but also contain items that they want and need. Talk to your child and get an idea of what they would like before sending the care package.

Best foods for a college care package

The most common type of care package consists of food. While a lot of colleges offer meal tickets for cafeteria food, that's not always enough. Students keep odd hours and need snacks on hand at all times. Fast food, in addition to being unhealthy, can also be costly – especially for college students. That's where food related care packages come in.

When sending food care packages, make sure that everything you send is non-perishable. Also take into account the space your child has to store the items and whether or not your child has a stove, oven or microwave at their disposal.

Here is a list to get you started:

• Beef jerky
• Bottled water
• Candy bars
• Gum
• Canned soups
• Cereal and oatmeal
• Granola bars
• Chips

• Brownie mix
• Rice crispie treats
• Homemade cookies
• Ramen noodles
• Popcorn
• Pretzels or party mix
• Protein bars
• Tea or lemonade mix

Bonus

For an extra treat, consider gift cards to your child's favorite restaurants or fast food places

Flashcards are wonderful teaching tools

Flashcards are wonderful teaching tools. They offer fun, interactive learning for all levels of education for all subject types. Often created by teachers or purchased in educational stores or departments, flashcards can help with memory skills, mathematical skills, advanced discussion work, interaction via games, speaking and listening skills of all ages.

Flashcards come in a variety of shapes, sizes and materials. They often have space on them for students to insert their own replies and they can be personalized. In addition, flashcard software is becoming increasingly popular due to new technology. Computers are used more and more often in education.

People can get creative with the cards. For instance, popular uses of flashcards include writing calculations on one side with answers on the other, or developing thoughts on one side with pictures or other images and by writing correlating bullet points on the reverse side. Some write questions on one side, answers on the reverse. Others add colors to the cards (with markers, colored pencils, paints, chalks, etc.) and then jazz them up with colorful stickers, glitter, felt or other fun craft items.

And not only students reap rewards with flashcards. Take a look at this brief overview of who benefits and how.

Students - Of course students are among the number one benefactors of flashcards. Skills they learn using flashcards include: memory, association, verbal, cognitive, interaction, mathematical, listening and more.

Parents - Parents benefit by having tools to help their children with learning and examination preparation. Flashcards can be purchased or created fairly inexpensively, fitting into family budgets of all income levels. And the cards offer opportunities to extend learning beyond the point or points mentioned on the cards, opportunities for family interaction as well.

Teachers - Teachers benefit with flashcards in a variety of way: via teacher-directed study, self-paced student study, and by helping team up student partners, teaching them to work with the fronts and backs of flashcards for enhanced learning. Flashcards are creative outlets for many teachers, as well, allowing for use of crafting materials and instruction with imaginative teaching methodology on two sides.

So get flashcards, the little pictures that can lead to the big picture!

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Start with the basics

Good morning. We all need help when it comes to teaching our children. I alway loved to go shopping and buying them things from the local stores that will assist me with teaching them numbers, abc's, colors and so forth. Here are my picks that I think might assist you and your child(ren).

 

Colorful, time-saving, and a snap to set up and store, these fun and engaging file folder games encourage independent learning. Just glue the brightly-colored game boards inside file folders, and students will have everything they need to play games that that help them learn and practice letter- and letter-sound recognition skills. Perfect for learning centers!

 

Unlock the door to reading success with these 25 easy-to-assemble, hands-on learning wheels that teach essential phonics skills! With just a turn of each adorable wheel, young learners practice and master a multitude of words—independently! Skills include long and short vowels, variant vowels, diphthongs, and consonant blends and digraphs. Includes a CD with ready-to-print versions of each of the 25 wheels in both full-color and black-line formats, as well as blank templates for creating customized wheels. A must-have teaching tool for all K-2 classrooms! For use with Grades K–2

   

A solid foundation of basic math skills is essential for early success in math. Children who can connect their understanding of math to the world around them, and build confidence through practice, will be ready for the challenges of mathematics as they advance to more complex topics. The activities in this workbook are designed to help your children catch up, keep up, and get ahead. Best of all, they’ll have lots of fun doing it!   

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I hope this information was helpful. 

Protecting our children.

I have to admit, this world is super scary. We do all we can to protect our children. Inside and out the home.
Sometimes we don't realized inside the home is a bit more dangerous. How so. Well, we have to cover the plug sockets, make sure the toilet lid is down, don't leave our babies unattended anywhere. This includes in front of the computer. Anything and everything can and will pop up. Remember their minds are blank pieces of paper and the world is a permanent marker. So let's protect our children. How?
I can across this site thought it will be beneficial.
You'll Be Too When You Realize Just How Much Your Family Is At Risk! From The Desk Of Martin Brendal Just North of Kansas City, Missouri I'm on a Mission to Help You Protect Your Family - It's That Important!
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