Cottage Grove Blog

The Motivation Factor

Mar 22, 2021 | Cottage Grove Blog

According to NBC news, there are 3 main motivating factors that human beings rely on. They are: 1. Extrinsic Motivation. This means doing something for the external rewards you'll receive. For example, a child named Maria earns money doing chores to bu..

The COVID-19 slide: What summer learning loss can tell us about the potential impact of school closures on student academic achievement

Jul 20, 2020 | Cottage Grove Blog

As a parent, you've probably heard of the 'summer slide,' where students can lose up to 3 months of knowledge over the summer. This already scary phenomenon is being compounded this year by the knowledge slide kids are experiencing because of closed schoo..

Use Dominoes to Build Numerical Fluency

May 24, 2018 | Cottage Grove Blog

Would you enjoy reading if you had to sound out every word? Beginning readers start out reading letter by letter and progress to reading whole words at a time. Reading fluently is the ability to read and understand text without stopping to analyze each pa..

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