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How did I overcome my loneliness?

I got stuck in a deep loneliness, when I was newly married and flew to US with my husband. It was an arranged marriage, so anyone can understand the time it takes to feel companionship with the partner. Due to geographical change and time constraints, I can't be in touch with my beloved family and friends as before. After my husband left to office, the silence inside and outside house are the same. No known people around me. scrolling the news feed of Facebook, made me feel that everybody in the world are so busy with their lives and I got struck up in an island. Then the fear of missing out has come in me. An idle mind is devil's workshop right. The devil in me made me to think too much and ended up doing nothing but to worry and feel useless. . I wished to engage myself in something interesting. Obviously, that was the time, I was learning cooking. So, I put in some more effort and started exploring in my kitchen and came out with different recipes. I started to take pi

Printable worksheets for Classes 3 to 5

If you are looking for printable worksheets for classes 3-5, join my Google classroom.  This will be suitable for kids from Pre K to 2nd grade. Click the invite link to join the class. Classroom invite Disclaimer:  I don't follow any particular syllabus and any specific teaching methodology. The contents I post in the classroom are from various educational sites and Facebook groups.  I started saving these worksheets for my kids. Hope sharing this classroom will help many kids. 

Chapter Books for Children 5-8 years old

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 After finishing sight word books, picture books, Short stories, Kids should be introduced to chapter books. Chapter books are primarily for intermediate readers probably 7 to 10 years old. But there are book loving kids, who can switch to chapter books at the age of 6 itself.  Chapter books are more of prose and less of pictures. Reading chapter books increases kids involvement to the story and stronger bond to the characters in the book. Reading a chapter book for a week long makes the kids to improve their connectivity skill and sequencing skill. This eventually builds stronger connection to the book world.  Here are the list of chapter books suitable for the children between the age 5 and 8. 1.  Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 2.   Because of Winn Dixie 3.   Young Cam Jansen series 4. Princess Pink and the land of fake believe 5.  Something from Nothing 6. Owly book series 7.  Elephant and the Piggie 8.  Billie B. Brown Series 9. Whatever After series 10. Princess in Black se

Book recommendation for Children

  Here is the list of books recommended for kids who begin to read.  For Phonics: 1. Bob books 2. Meet the sight words books 3. First little readers 4. The Reading lesson 5. The Reading lesson 6. Fun with Ed and Fred 7. There was an old lady who swallowed books 8. Oakley the sock steeliing Beagle - for "ock" sound 9. Primary Phonics 1- 6 sets(60 books) 10. Fun tales - 27 booklets 11. I can read it books 12. I can read books -  Harper Collins Children books 13.  Picture books for toddlers https://numberdyslexia.com/top-15-books-on-learning-sight-words/ List of books approved by Cincinati Public school Ohio  For grades K to 12 I can read books  Harper Collins Children books  : You will find the list of books based on Book names, reading levels and character books.  

Printable Worksheets for K-2

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If you are looking for printable worksheets for classes K-2, join my Google classroom.  This will be suitable for kids from Pre K to 2nd grade. Click the invite link to join the class. classroom invite Disclaimer:  I don't follow any particular syllabus and any specific teaching methodology. The contents I post in the classroom are from various educational sites and Facebook groups.  I started saving these worksheets for my kids. Hope sharing this classroom will help many kids. 

How to avoid distractions while learning/reading/studying?

Disclaimer: This may look something irrelevant to my blog, but yes I started writing this down for my niece and nephews who are struggling to overcome their distractions during their study hours. Publishing it with a hope that it may be useful for some other little hearts too. Lock down is an unexpected phase of our life. Many have no idea on what to do in this phase. Few want to enjoy, few want to be peaceful and few want to make use of it in a different way. Many of those people who thought of making it useful chose to learn new things. When it comes to new learning, more time, an open mind, peaceful environment and concentration is more important. Lock down has given more time, now we need to bring the rest of the things into our life. Concentration : Many would say, concentration is staying focused. I agree. A Sculptor sees a desired sculpture in an uncut rock. That is staying focused; seeing only what needs to be done.  But when it is too difficult to stay focused, we can choose

How to be determined?

DREAM is not what you  see in  sleep ,  DREAM  is something which doesn't let  you sleep . – Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam. That is determination. Before we talk about how to be determined, we should be clear on the goal for which we need to be determined. What is your goal? Becoming a Doctor or getting higher score in 12th? Becoming a Doctor is a goal to be achieved; getting higher scores, clearing entrance exams, getting Doctor seat in a reputed college, doing good in medical exams are part of that goal. Be determined to achieve the primary goal. When should we be determined? It is easy to define or express what our goals are, but to do what we speak are really difficult. Because we may make mistakes, we may delay in learning, we may delay in processing, we may fail too. But do we need to stop there? So, it is important to be determined at the time of difficulties. When something happens against your plan, or may be nothing happen as per your plan. You may need to resc

How to support Bloggers

Blogging in initial days were just compared to diaries as many were using it to share their experience and to post things informally. But it is no more a hobby. Though many bloggers post contents in an informal manners, they post it for many useful reasons. Many are educative, informative and enlightening. All such contents need much efforts on research and presentation. So, their work needs an acknowledgement too. Yes the same informative, educative and enlightening contents we receive online are from YouTube videos and of course they have a good reach. Planting a tree, watering it for so many days and giving you the fruit is what the bloggers do. They think of a content, do a background research, get materials and present it in a form of a post. Youtubers go a step ahead and make the fruit into a juice 😀, yes they too do all that the bloggers do and in addition to that, they are presenting it in a visual form. I just compared the efforts of both the content creators. Beyond both t