My Frugal Life: Back To School

By all standards, we are ranking well below the other countries in the teaching department. We are 25 in the world when it comes to math, and I believe we rank even lower in other subjects. That is a sad story. We are failing our kids to give them the best education.

I remember when my daughter started school. I went to the school supply store and almost fainted. My daughter is now 28 years old. The store had it all. Flash cards, erasers, pencils and sharpeners, posters, games; you name it, they had it. They also had very high prices. Being a single mother, I had to come up with some creative ideas to help with my daughter's learning.

• I made flash cards by buying card stock and making my own addition and subtraction problems.
• At the thrift shop, I would buy old beat up children's books, and use them to decorate the poster boards that I made.
• I would use construction paper to cut out shapes. They could learn thier colors and shapes at the same time.
• I took an old white plastic table cloth and cut it to the size of a small rug. I traced my daughter's feet and shoes, so she could learn how to put her shoes on as well as her left and right.
• I made a clock out of an old Frisbee. I just used straws for the hand and used stick on numbers for the times.
• I would cut up the poster board into strips and made number and alphabet lines. The lines I pasted on the back of my daughter's door.

There are so many imaginative ways to help your child to succeed in school, with spending a lot of money. Next post, I will have some web sites to visit, where you can print worksheets for free.

By Georgetta from Waterloo, IA

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