Summer is a great time to keep your tweens reading but letting them explore new titles or genres. And it’s a terrific opportunity to have them read titles by Latinos and multicultural authors that address stories from a cultural, social or community perspective. Titles can be in English, Spanish or other languages but the idea… [Read More]
Teaching & Education Tips
Ways to Make Summer Learning Fun
Sleep in, watch TV, go to camp, hang out with friends and play video games – that about sums up my tween’s plans for the summer. It came as a bit of a shock to them when I grabbed the pages from their school work books that they hadn’t finished and started assigning them a… [Read More]
No Excuses – Developing a Love for Math in Tweens #CelebrateEDU
Disclaimer: This post is part of the sponsored #CelebrateEdu series in collaboration with Ford Motor Company. To learn more about #CelebrateEdu, please click here. I remember being shocked in high school when I discovered that I really enjoyed my precalculus class. I understood the concepts, enjoyed working out the problems and even started tutoring some… [Read More]
Encouraging a Love for Science – A Visit to the Miami Science Museum
Disclaimer: Los Tweens was provided with one adult and two tween passses to the museum to complete the review and video. However, all opinions expressed are our own. In our last #CelebrateEdu post, we interviewed Liz Elser from Ford Motor Company. We learned from her that parents are crucial to encouraging their children… [Read More]
My Bilingual Child Hates Spanish Class
by Tracy López for Mamiverse It’s the worst nightmare of a parent trying to raise a bilingual child. “I hate Spanish class and I have all my foreign language credits now—I don’t want to take it next year. Are you going to make me?” Those were the words of my 14 year old son, a… [Read More]
Tween Book Recommendations
Our amigas over at Mamiverse have a great list of book recommendations for the entire family including an ENTIRE section for tweens and bilingual books! Here are just a few of our favorite Mamiverse book reviews for tweens: How Tía Lola Ended Up Starting Over By Julia Alvarez Random House • 2011 • 145 pages… [Read More]
Parents are KEY to Encouraging STEM Careers
An interview with Ford Motor Company’s Liz Elser On a recent trip to Kennedy Space Center (full post coming soon), Cristy overheard a tween girl asking her father to “Plllllllllleeeeeeaaasssseeee” buy her an astronaut uniform. His response, “Those are for boys!”. This scene is exactly why Los Tweens began the Celebrate Education/Educacion #CelebrateEDU series. … [Read More]
Calling All Tween & Teen Inventors & Innovators
Do you have an aspiring tween or teen inventor in your home? Want to encourage a career in science, technology, engineering or math? In preparation for the release of Iron Man 3, Disney, Discovery Science Center, Broadcom Foundation, Marvel Studios, Visa Signature and the famous El Capital Theatre in Hollywood have teamed up to sponsor a… [Read More]
Los Tweens and Ford Partner to Empower Latina & Multicultural Tweens
Los Tweens is proud to announce its partnership with Ford to support the Celebrate Education/Educación (#CelebrateEdu) series. In conjunction with the Ford Latino team, Los Tweens will be brining its readers advice and positive role models to encourage the celebration of educational and extra-curricular achievements of children ages 7-12. Articles will include interviews with female… [Read More]
Tips for Understanding the First Report Card
by Kathryn M. Núñez (5th Grade Teacher) As the first round of report cards begin to make their ways home, parents are probably worried about whether or not their child has performed above or at minimum at average to their grade level. They hope that the marks reflect their child’s efforts and worry about… [Read More]