How To Get Your Child to Read More Books

Tweet How to Help Your Child Get Interested in Reading Books: 1. Find a favorite author s/he enjoys, and then ask the librarian to help your child find more books by that author. 2. Find a topic your child is interested in: princess stories, fairy tales, dragon tales, pirates, baseball, jokes. Then ask the librarian to help you find books on that theme. 3. Encourage your child to check out Non-Fiction books. Find a...

Olympic Learning Opportunities

Tweet The 2012 Olympics Games and Learning  　 　 　 　 　 　   　   　     Here are several different ways to use the Olympics for Learning: 1. Make a list of the countries that will be participating. Put them in alphabetical order. 2. Take a map of the world and find each country on the map. 3. Make a list of all the sports that will be participating in the Olympics. 4. Go to the library and...

Summer Activities A – Z

Tweet   Summer Activities A – Z A – Art activities: provide lots of opportunities for art activities: have on hand lots of paper, crayons, markers, scissors, paint and paint brushes, play dough, etc. B – Books: Spend time reading, go to the library, read aloud to your kids. C – Cartoons: read cartoons, read comic books, make your own cartoons. D – Dinosaurs: read about dinosaurs, check out...

How to Be a Super Parent

Tweet Super Parents Kids need to know you love them and care about them more than anything else. You can be a SUPER PARENT without giving up your time to read, blog, write, design or anything else you love to do as an artistic person. You can be the best SUPER PARENT in the world without being there for your child full time. Here are some suggestions to help find time for special moments with your child. 　 Ten Ways to...

Read Alouds And Thinking Skills

Tweet Reading A Picture Book Aloud Introducing New Vocabulary and Thinking Skills Reading a picture book can be a fun activity for you and your child.  While reading to your child, you can use critical thinking skills to help your child gain understanding and increase his/her ability to analyze and problem solve. These are some thinking skills  that you can use while reading aould. They are : analyzing, reasoning,...

The Creative Art of Storytelling

Tweet The Creative Art of Storytelling  Recently my kids were given a gift of Rory’s Story Cubes. We opened the package to find 9 cubes inside. On each cube were 4 different pictures. You roll the cubes out and each child has to tell a story by using all the pictures on his/her 9 cubes. My kids were busy for hours taking turns telling stories. (Ages 9, 7 and 5) Later, we noticed the 3 year old take the bag of cubes on...