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How to watch movies to improve your College Board SAT score – SAT movies

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August 11, 2016 by ES Ivy

Forget boring vocabulary lists and flashcards! SAT study hack - 3 tips for watching movies to raise your College Board SAT score. (You might even enjoy it!)You’ve probably heard that the best thing you can do to improve your score on the College Board SAT is to read, read, read.

You know how as a reward your English teacher would show you the movie Romeo and Juliet – fast forwarding through all the racy bits – after you read the book?

She had it backwards!

When it comes to great stories, it doesn’t matter if you know the ending, because you’re enjoying getting there so much. That’s why great novels – and great movies – can be enjoyed again and again. The enjoyment comes not just in the ending, but in the path that gets you there….

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SAT Study Tip – Raise your SAT score by watching movies! – SAT movies

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August 1, 2016 by ES Ivy

SAT tip study hack - The old College Board SAT vocabulary type questions are gone, but there are still SAT vocabulary words in the reading passages. Here's a fun SAT study tip!While the old College Board SAT vocabulary type questions are gone, you’ll still find SAT vocabulary words in the reading passages. Studying for a standardized test can be such a drag, you need to incorporate some fun SAT study tips. When you’re engaged, your more likely to retain the information. Here’s a fun SAT study tip.

At the beginning of the summer I told my daughters that I wanted to watch movies with them – lots and lots of movies!

For their education.

Any literary movie they wanted to see.

To which my oldest slyly asked, “Like 50 Shades of Gray?”

Ha ha!

Um, no….

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Beauty and the Beast Official Teaser Poster

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July 9, 2016 by ES Ivy

Beauty and the Beast Disney Life-Action official movie teaser poster.I just received the teaser poster for  Disney’s upcoming live-action re-telling of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. It’s gorgeous! The movie will be an adaptation of the animated version with both new and old musical numbers. We’re big fans of musicals so we’ll look forward to this! Not to mention one of my girls is a big fan of Emma Watson, who’ll be portraying Belle….

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The Martian – the book, the movie

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November 19, 2015 by ES Ivy

The Martian

Read the book?
Seen the movie?

Yes and yes.

I love a science fiction or fantasy novel that includes real science. And the book has more science than the movie.

Is the book The Martian, by Andy Weir, suitable for kids?

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Full Guide to Introducing your Kids and Teens to Star Wars

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August 24, 2015 by ES Ivy

The new Star Wars movie, Episode 7, is coming out December 18th! Will your family be ready when the Force Awakens?

Will your family be ready when the Force Awakens? Full guide to introducing your kids or teens to the world of Star Wars.

Our family has a few Star Wars fans, as you can tell from some of our photos over the years. For Halloween the kids were Jedi Knights, Luke Skywalker, and Princess Leia more than once. (The girls wore a Princess Leia costume I made in high school. Yes, we had to tape up the hem and make some other adjustments. I’m not that short.) There was even a three-dimensional R2-D2 birthday cake.

So you’d think we’d all be ready for the new movie. But while our son was eager to watch the Star Wars live action movies…

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Don’t miss Tomorrowland! A parent’s review

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May 26, 2015 by ES Ivy

Our family was able to catch Tomorrowland during it’s premier holiday weekend, and we’re glad we did! Because…

They showed the trailer for Star Wars the Force Awakens!…

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Cinderella and Inside Out – Lessons in Kids’ Movies

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March 25, 2015 by ES Ivy

Disney Cinderella glass slipperAre you like me and you haven’t seen the new Disney Cinderella movie yet?

Maybe you’re worried about showing your young daughter an out-dated fairy tale where a young maiden is distress is saved by a charming prince who swoops in and saves the day? Well the press information that Disney has released suggests that they really tried to do otherwise. Instead, they tried to produce a film that shows that “kindness can be a type of super power.”…

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Science in Strange Magic, the new animated movie from George Lucas and Walt Disney Pictures

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January 27, 2015 by ES Ivy

Strange MagicHow did we miss this?!? There’s a new George Lucas animated movie! Strange Magic, from Walt Disney Pictures, Lucasfilm Ltd. and released by Touchstone Pictures.

No one in this family had any idea this was coming. Granted, we don’t watch a ton of tv, but usually we know about every sci-fi and animated movie coming out. And anything by George Lucas would have definitely caught our notice, because, well – STAR WARS. We’re one of those families where not only dad, but mom as well, grew up as a Star Wars fan so the kids had no choice but to hear about it. Even if when we were talking about this movie my twelve-year-old did say, “Isn’t George Lucas dead?”…

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