Happy Black History Month! With this special time to celebrate Black history and culture, this is the perfect chance to talk with your child about identity and pride. Children develop a sense of self in different ways over time. Everything they learn about themselves hopefully adds to their self-esteem and sense of belonging. This Zero Read More
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Ways to Read with Your Child Every Day
This month’s suggested activity is pretty simple… read! Read EVERY DAY. Complete the 21 Day Challenge The perfect time to start is now. It’s never too late to start reading, and it’s never too early. Print out our 21 Day Challenge worksheet. Hang it on your fridge, your child’s bedroom wall, bathroom, anywhere that will remind Read More
Books to Read with Your Child Every Day
Here are some fun books to celebrate the joy of reading: Leo Loves Baby Time by Anna McQuinn (Infant, Toddler) Even the littlest of children can find something fun to do at the library. In Leo Loves Baby Time, Leo and his grown-up go to the library for a special Baby Time, sharing songs, stories, and Read More
Tips to Help You Read with Your Child Every Day
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
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
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
