Monthly Archives: July 2009
Choosing the Right Backpack for Your Child
We are seeing them all around us. They creep into your favorite store when we aren’t looking. Everywhere you go, school supplies are sneaking into the scenery. As you and your child start to do back to school shopping, one … Continue reading
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Lifelong Benefits from Learning Nursery Rhymes and Poetry at a Young Age
Nursery Rhymes are disappearing from the language of our young children. What a tragic loss this is. More and more children are arriving in Kindergarten without any knowledge of Nursery Rhymes. Research has shown that children who struggle with rhymes … Continue reading
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Learning to Recognize the Letters of the English Alphabet…Where to Start
We have 52 letters in our English alphabet, 26 capital letters, sometimes called upper case letters (A,B,C) and 26 lower case letters (a,b,c). Any Kindergarten teacher will tell you that the children don’t use capital letters very often, or even … Continue reading
More to Being Ready for Kindegarten than Knowing Your Letters and Numbers: Part 2
Non Academic Skills Useful for Transition into Kindergarten Part 2 These skills are a continuation of the non-academic skills that were mentioned in yesterday’s blog. Honestly assess your child, before he/she heads into kindergarten and if you notice that your … Continue reading
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More to Being Ready for Kindegarten than Knowing Your Letters and Numbers: Part 1
Non Academic Skills Useful for Transition into Kindergarten There is more to being ready to enter kindergarten than knowing your letters and numbers. If you are a parent of a preschooler, you have a little time before kindergarten, but if … Continue reading
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Making new friends in Kindergarten is a challenging task
Most 5 and 6 year olds anxiously wait all summer long for the day that they too, can start school. They have usually been to the school for a spring visit, have seen the classrooms, walked the halls, and met … Continue reading
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PRESCHOOL: Setting the conditions for your child’s success in kindergarten.
Recently I was sitting at a meeting of public school educators who teach preschool through 5th grade, when a preschool teacher started talking to me about the spelling lists that she used in her classroom. I knew that her intent … Continue reading
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Read to your child every day…no exceptions!
My husband and I have raised three children and I have personally known hundreds of young families with new babies. If I had one word, or bit of advice I would give to each family, it would be to READ … Continue reading
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Summertime and the living is easy..if you are a child!
It’s summer; do you know where your young children are? Hopefully your answer will not be ‘playing video games’ or ‘watching TV’. The fresh air outside awaits your child and it is time to turn off the TV/electronics. Summer time … Continue reading
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My First Blog
Hello all, My name is Claire and I am currently a kindergarten teacher in Virginia. I have been teaching for over 30 years and 23 of those years in kindergarten and I wouldn’t teach any other grade level! I have … Continue reading
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