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
This week you and your child will focus on Sight, one of the five senses. Young children can learn:
we see with our eyes.
We learn things by seeing with our eyes.
We need light to help us see.
When it is very dark, we cannot see.
Some people need glasses to to help them see better.
We need [...]
Tags: children, creativity, Early Childhood Education, encouraging creativity, lessons
29
Jun
This week we’ll be focusing on the letter B, and on learning about bugs. Cut out a capital and lower-case letter “B” and add it to your calendar area. Display pictures of bees, bugs, ladybugs, butterflies, or whatever else might be familiar where you live. Also, beach starts with B. If [...]
Tags: activities, bugs, creativity, encouraging creativity, lessons, Play, Preschool, toddlers
6
Mar
Ten simple steps to encourage creativity in your child include reading to him often, playing open-ended games, plenty of fresh air and exercise, more…
Tags: encouraging creativity, limitations, read, television, thinking games, vitamin D
