Nurturing creative young minds and wiggly bodies
16
May
This week your child will learn about good health . We tend to take our health for granted, until we don’t have it any more. However, there are five basic steps you and your child can do right now, to help you maintain and respect your health. They are:
Get plenty of sleep
Eat [...]
Tags: activities, children, children's books, Early Childhood Education, encouraging creativity, five steps to better health, GORP, Health, home school, homeschool, nutrition, Preschool, toddlers
24
Oct
This week, Squirrels and Woodland Animals, your child may learn:
A woods or forest is an area with lots of trees and bushes. It often has small rivers of water or a pond.
Animals who live in the woods are called woodland animals.
The most common woodland animals are rabbits, skunks, squirrels, deer, foxes, raccoons, opossums, chipmunks, turtles, [...]
Tags: children's books, creativity, Early Childhood Education, encouraging creativity, lessons, Preschool, preschool activities, Preschoolers, squirrels
20
Apr
There is a lot you can do to help a child get ready for reading, even if you decide not to teach your baby to read. Such a child will enter kindergarten eager to learn, and primed for success. This readiness is not hard to do, and should be included in any manual on parenting [...]
Tags: children's books, Early Childhood Education, early reading, kindergarten readiness, learning activities, reading
4
Mar
I added a new page to my blog today, a list of twenty of my favorite children’s books. Recently I went to the library to look for some great stories to read to my granddaughter, and I couldn’t find any! The library was bursting with books. Rows and rows of shelves. But most of them [...]
Tags: children's books, classics, favorite stories, parent's choice award
