Here are some suggestions for making reading together something you and your child both enjoy: Your enthusiasm will affect your child. Get excited about reading and your child will be jumping up and down for reading time. Use different reading voices and expression. Be silly. Add sound effects. Explore your voice – it’s powerful! Let your Read More
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Read Every Day
If there was an easy way to improve your child’s chances of succeeding in school, would you take it? Of course you would! The secret: take time to read with your child. Every time you read with your child, you show them that reading a book can be a warm, happy, and fun experience. Those Read More
Ways to Count
Here’s the super fun part! As we’ve mentioned, you can count everything all the time with your child – here are some songs, rhymes, and play activities to keep it all going! Songs* Ten Little Fingers Zoom, Zoom, Zoom & Happy New Year, Zoom, Zoom, Zoom Show Me a One Five Green and Speckled Frogs Read More
Books about Counting
Arithmechicks Add Up by Anne Marie Stephens (Preschool) Ten little chicks are at the park for a day of fun, which includes math, of course. Children will enjoy the fun illustrations while learning (without tears) different strategies for counting and addition. Enjoyed this one? Check out the second book in the series, Arithmechicks Take Away. Get Read More
Tips for Practicing Counting
Learning to count has different stages, and here are three basic ones to concentrate on with your little one. https://www.bestbeginningsalaska.org/tips-for-practicing-counting/ Edit Counting in Order The first stage is counting in the correct order using the names of numbers: 1 (“one”), 2 (“two), 3 (“three”), etc. Sometimes children skip numbers as they learn how to put numbers Read More
Counting
This month we’re using New Year’s Eve or New Year’s Noon as the best excuse to practice counting all month. Learning numbers and how to count readies your child for doing math in the future. Research from Johns Hopkins University suggests that babies may have a pretty sophisticated understanding of numbers even though they are Read More
Apps for Tracking Developmental Milestones
Here are some apps with milestone tracking, suggestions for dealing with challenging behavior, and ways to keep active. Milestone Tracker (Free) Google Play Store | App Store “Keep track of your child’s developmental milestones with checklists, illustrations, photos, and videos. The CDC’s Milestone Tracker app provides tips for encouraging your child’s development and what to Read More
Tips for Diving into Developmental Milestones
Help Me Grow Alaska is a program under the umbrella of the All Alaska Pediatric Partnership. They are dedicated to promoting healthy child development by providing support and information to families and organizations. HMG’s call center is staffed by family support specialists who can answer questions and help you move forward (1-833-HMG-ALASKA). Their services are Read More
Developmental Milestones
How many times have you asked yourself: is my child where they should be developmentally or emotionally? Is what they’re doing “normal”? It’s a common fear among parents that their child might not progressing through appropriate developmental stages. As a caregiver, you know your child and shouldn’t ignore signs that your child might need an Read More
Tips for Supporting Self-Suffiency
Getting dressed Support your child on the sidelines with corrections if clothes are on backwards or socks are on wrong feet Practice school routines For example: Packing and unpacking bags Refilling water bottles Going to the bathroom unassisted Getting ready to go somewhere on a schedule Putting on, taking off, and hanging up coat and Read More
