Good Health and Physical Well-Being  My child: ___     Eats a balanced diet ___     Gets plenty of rest ___     Receives regular medical and dental care ___     Has had all the necessary immunizations ___     Runs, jumps, plays outdoors and does other activities that help develop his large muscles and provide exercise ___     Works puzzles, scribbles, colors, […]
 I won’t keep you in suspense: the secret is the “fun factor.” Put simply, kids will work tirelessly if the work is gratifying — that is, if it’s fun! That doesn’t mean all play and little work leads to academic success; far from it. What it does mean is that each child’s own perspective about […]
 Inspire her thirst for knowledge inside — and outside — of school.  If you want your child to be a stellar student, don’t limit learning to the walls of his classroom. Although the skills he’s learning there are crucial to his intellectual and social growth, your child needs your help to really “open […]
Over two decades after Howard Gardner identified multiple intelligences in his ground-breaking book Frames of Mind (1983), educators around the world are using the theory of multiple intelligences in their classrooms. In some ways, parents and teachers have always intuitively known that children learn in different ways and that an activity that grabs one child may […]
 Children develop mathematical skills and discover mathematical relationships as they play with many different kinds of materials and have conversations about what they are doing. At preschool, look at what is in each interest area for children to use and listen to what they talk about with one another and with teachers.  The […]
 Children will create a classroom mural to help learn one another’s names.  ·      camera ·      butcher paper ·      pushpins or stapler ·      glue or tape ·      crayons, colored pencils, or markers  Take an individual headshot of each child in the class.  Cut butcher paper to fit the bulletin board. Paste pictures of […]
1. Read and sing together. This will build her vocabulary, language, and communication skills. 2. Count everything. Whether it’s stairs, blocks, or candy, thinking about numbers will get him ready for math. 3. Create art projects. Drawing with crayons, using safety scissors to cut paper, and creating collages with glue will make her comfortable with […]
 How to inspire curiosity, creative thinking, and joy along your child’s path to greater knowledge  I remember thinking during my first year as a teacher that I had to be “teaching” all the time — that, in fact, I had to teach children how to learn. Through my preschoolers, however, I discovered that some […]
