Your friend's three year old learns the alphabet, practices yoga, and counts to twenty in his preschool class. She beams as she talks about how preschools prepares her child for school. You wonder if days spent zooming up and down your street on the tricycle, sitting in the grocery cart ...
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Fun Math – Use a Board Game To Teach Number Sense
Learning counting with worksheets can be boring for some children. Teaching number sense should not bring children to tears. Make math fun. Making math fun helps make it relevant to any child, but especially children with attention issues or who might struggle more learning math ...
Help! My Preschool Child Refuses to Write: The Ultimate Sensory Guide To Writing
Giddy with excitement, I imagined myself as a Newberry Award Winning children's novelist as I submitted my short stories every year to my elementary school's writing contest. My hope undefeated as I never placed until finally a victory winning second place in my last year of elementary ...
How Play is More Important than Academics in Preschool and How It Prepares Your Child for School
Your kids are finally asleep. The evening chores are finally done, or maybe not, and it's your time to put up your feet and rest. But there's a nagging voice in the back of your head telling you that you didn't do enough with your preschool children today. Of course, they were fed and ...
Best Kids’ Activity of 2012
I have written a lot of art, learning, parenting, and play activities for The Golden Gleam in 2012. The most popular learning activity was a science experiment with vinegar ice. 50 Ideas to Take Art Outside was the most viewed article about kids' art ideas. The We Get It parenting ...