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LET'S DEFEAT THE SUMMER SLIDE!!   The Summer slide is the lose of significant knowledge over summer vacation especially in reading and math.  This leads to skill lose each year. "A more recent study of children in 3rd to 5th grades also showed that students lost, on average, about 20 percent of their school-year gains in reading and 27 percent of their school-year gains in math during summer break." -Scholastic.com     I have created a summer reading challenge to keep your DOPE kid reading all summer!        CLICK HERE TO PRINT OUT A COPY FOR YOUR DOPE KID  ...

Let’s continue reading into the new month with a NEW reading challenge!    Challenge your Dope Kid with our February Reading Challenge!!    Click the image below and send to the printer to get started!!   Make sure to tag us at the hashtag #thedopekidreads while you are completing this challenge!      Happy Reading & Rhyming     The Dope Kid Family    

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With all of the reading your Dope Kid is doing, a great way to keep track of their hard work is with a READING LOG!!  Below is a fun FREE PRINTABLE that will show     

With all that is going on, I thought it would be helpful to share a blog post about Microbiology!! I have read news reports saying that you should just spend time with your kids and not say much to them about what is going on! I agree that we should be having quality family time, however I disagree with that saying nothing to children about what is going on. Hence, this blog post. I have a BS in Biology and MS in Biotechnology (biodefense/biosecurity) so I have been getting a lot of questions from friends and family, so I wanted...