Make Your New Year's Resolution to Exercise, a Family Affair

Author: maryparker
We all know that exercise promotes better health, but getting exercise becomes a bit more complicated once you have settled down with a family.  Finding kids\' sports equipment such as mini tennis balls and rackets, for example, can be challenging. Zsig.com is tackling that challenge for families, coaches and schools.
We have all seen little kids trying to copy adults whether it is shaking a finger or trying to wield an adult-sized baseball bat.  It may be humorous to watch them wrestle with something twice their size, but many small children realise that they are not able to participate in adult sports, which typically results in frustration and the occasional clamorous meltdown.
Kids\' sports equipment has been available in primary and secondary schools for a long time, but kids often ask for that same equipment at home.  Even in schools, children often have to work with oversized equipment that proves difficult to master.  This does not exactly help a child\'s self-esteem or provide a positive attitude towards physical fitness.  There are a few retailers that offer kids\' sports equipment, but with a limited selection.

How to Spend Your Winter Break

How to Spend Your Winter Break
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Johny_Young_Lee]Johny Young Lee

Although high school students likely won't be on break yet, for college students, most of us are starting our winter breaks! It is a time where we can rest, even though we had plenty of time throughout our first quarter (or semester, depending on what kind of system you have), but now it's officially our resting time. The great thing that I love about college is that you don't have any winter work, but it's just a break. So, to fill up our times somewhat, here's a list of things we can do during our winter break.

1) The thing that most students need is sleep! I usually catch up on some sleep before I do anything. Just spend the first couple of days lazying around and sleeping to catch up on all the sleep you've missed during school.

2) If you'd rather skip the whole sleeping process, that's fine too. One thing you can do is go to the mountains. By this time, unless you live in an area where it barely rains, there will be some new snow up there. Take this chance to visit the area and play with snow, or go snowboarding or skiing or sledding.

Holiday Homework: 4 Ways To Keep Your Students Engaged During Winter Vacation

Holiday Homework: 4 Ways To Keep Your Students Engaged During Winter Vacation
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Lauren_Humphrey]Lauren Humphrey

Winter Break is a time for fun, family and friends. It's also a time when assigning homework can be difficult, as you don't want to burden students during their vacation, but you also need them to continue studying the lessons you're teaching in class. How can you assign homework that is both educational and won't detract from student's family time? Read on!

1) Family History: Some students only see their extended family during the holidays. Researching a family history is a great way for students to interact, and to learn more, about their family during this special time. Assign students to pick a family member and interview them. They can ask questions about the person's life, another family member, important historical events, or about an event that happened within the family. Have students present their findings as a mini-biography. They should write-up (and, for advanced students, analyze for historical context) the interview. Give them creative license to present their findings. Let them draw, animate, film or paint their biography, or allow them to write it as a song, poem, comic book, one-act play or short story. The more personal and creative it is, the more the family will treasure this historical snapshot.

Holiday Tricks To Keep Students Learning

Holiday Tricks To Keep Students Learning
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Shelby_A_Till]Shelby A Till

The holiday season is on its way here again and you know what that means, teachers will be scrambling to keep their students focused on their work instead of the excited times of Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas. This is the time when teachers must be creative and turn to fun activities to keep their students entertained, yet still learning. There are many resources that help educators find educational lesson plans during the holiday season, yet let the children have fun and not get overwhelmed by learning new material.

There has been a lot of controversy over whether schools should be allowed to celebrate holidays due to various reasons such as some children celebrating different holidays or having religious differences; however, schools have done a good job letting students still have fun and celebrating through "fall" or "winter" activities. One good thing about taking a break from the typical curriculum material is that students can focus on a variety of art whether it is creating music, making arts and crafts, or watching educational videos.

Helping Parents to Keep Their Children Motivated to Learn During the Break

Helping Parents to Keep Their Children Motivated to Learn During the Break
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Saundra_Carter]Saundra Carter

It happens every school year. Students return to school in the fall or after the winter break eager to see their friends, to wear the latest fashions, and to learn - not necessarily in that order.

Unfortunately, after several weeks or months of playing video games, vegetating on the couch, babysitting younger siblings, or working outside of the home many students have unintentionally shifted the lessons from the previous semester or school year to another part of their brains.

It is not their fault. If information is not used on a regular basis, it is forgotten. If a student has not factored a quadratic equation in 3 months, chances are that skill will take several minutes and several examples to recall.

The impact of this lapse in memory is problematic for the teacher who must invest time in review instead of introducing new material. In a global economy that requires a global work force, there is simply no time to waste.