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Tips for Parents to Help Keep Kids Sharp!

Summertime can be a wonderful and even fun time to expand your child’s understanding of math or strengthen their reading skills. Check out the following tips to help you make summer a learning experience for your kids.

National Family Month encourages family relationships and focuses on developing healthy, confident kids. Here are some simple ways to make your family bonds stronger:

1. Read a book with your kids and have them read it back. Encourage them to create their own end to the story
2. Spend a day giving back as a family. Perhaps you can volunteer to help clean up a local park
3. Go for walks together and let your kids collect pieces of nature… then learn more about them at home
4. Get the kids involved with your household; they can help write the grocery list, clip coupons or map out a vacation route
5. Relax & enjoy the lazy days of summer

People now more than ever, are passionate about preserving and protecting the great outdoors. If you’re part of this passion, we'd like to invite you to help champion our cause benefiting Florida's pristine parks and waterways! Please click here to learn how you can help.

Ricardo, a sweet and energetic second-grader, was struggling with reading at the beginning of the school year. On his first standardized assessment, he scored a 54% Probability of Reading Success. But Ricardo’s mom knew her son needed to do much better to achieve in school and later in life. So, they got involved with their local family literacy program. She learned how she could help her son improve his reading skills using a fun and educational take-home kit. “Mom” recently reported, with a huge smile on her face, that Ricardo scored a 95% on his latest Probability of Reading Success assessment. That’s what family literacy and a second chance is all about…creating smiles filled with pride and confidence! Good work Ricardo!

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The massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill has a lot of us thinking about what we can do to help. Check out our new eco-VolunteerUSA fan page dedicated to posting opportunities to volunteer for critical environmental need projects.

^{(From left to right ) Ginny Kirkland, Pearson Foundation and Dollar General's Henry Forrester spend time with Georgia Governor Perdue at a recent Pre-K event)}