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Making a Decision: Who is Teaching My Child? A Five Part Series on Choosing a Preschool

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Research indicates preschool education has many benefits for children. In addition to exposure to curriculum including literacy experiences, mathematical concepts, and science activities, a high quality preschool gives children the opportunity to learn how to socialize, to share and to contribute to society. Making a sound decision about early childhood education is a crucial for [...]

Making a Decision: Who is Teaching My Child? A Five Part Series on Choosing a Preschoolkk20152020-11-30T20:01:05-05:00

Help Your Child Fall In Love With Reading

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Schools all over the world will celebrate Dr. Seuss’s Birthday on March 2nd. It is also the start of “Read Across America”, the National Education Association’s annual reading motivation and awareness program that calls for every child in every community to celebrate reading on March 2, the birthday of beloved children's author Dr. Seuss.Reading is [...]

Help Your Child Fall In Love With Readingkk20152016-01-29T01:04:20-05:00

Help You Child Become a Problem Solver

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In Today’s fast paced society where everyone is connected at all times we expect immediate answers and solutions. These demands can cause a great deal of stress for adults as well as for children. Teaching children to take the time and steps necessary to become problem solvers can alleviate stress and inappropriate responses to challenges. Here [...]

Help You Child Become a Problem Solverkk20152016-01-29T01:04:21-05:00

Beat Brain Drain

kk20152020-11-30T20:01:06-05:00

Beat Brain DrainHelp your kid's reading skills soar during summer break with these words of advice from literacy experts. By Michelle Crouch from Parents MagazineWhen Kelley Dolling's first-grade students go on summer vacation, they forget a lot of the reading skills they've learned. "I talk to their second-grade teachers, and find out that many children who [...]

Beat Brain Drainkk20152020-11-30T20:01:06-05:00

Handwriting Tips

kk20152020-11-30T20:01:06-05:00

From worksheets to short essays, there are a lot of assignments for your kid to crank out -- and his teacher has to be able to read them. "Despite the increasing amount of technology in classrooms, a child's schoolwork still is mostly handwritten," says pediatric occupational therapist Jan Z. Olsen, founder of the Handwriting Without [...]

Handwriting Tipskk20152020-11-30T20:01:06-05:00

Celebrating Children, Building The Future

kk20152020-11-30T20:01:06-05:00

Week of the Young Child 2013 Theme: “Early Years Are Learning Years”The Week of the Young Child is an annual event sponsored by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). NAEYC, the world’s largest early childhood education association, has nearly 90,000 members and is committed to providing and promoting excellence in early [...]

Celebrating Children, Building The Futurekk20152020-11-30T20:01:06-05:00

Be A Kangaroo Kid for A Day

kk20152020-11-30T20:01:07-05:00

If you have never tried Kangaroo Kids April is your opportunity to experience their outstanding curriculum, caring professional teachers and family friendly environment! April is nationally acclaimed as Week of the Young Child and as a part of the celebration Kangaroo Kids Child Care and Learning Center is offering new students a free day of [...]

Be A Kangaroo Kid for A Daykk20152020-11-30T20:01:07-05:00

25 Tips To Encourage Literacy In Young Children

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1. Babble back to your infants2. Encourage conversation3. Teach site words – McDonalds, Lucky Charms, Barney4. Speak another language5. Encourage drawing and inventive spelling6. Script what children say about their drawings – write their story, make it into a book7. Fall in love with language, rhymes, songs and role model reading8. Label your child’s environment9. [...]

25 Tips To Encourage Literacy In Young Childrenkk20152012-03-01T13:43:00-05:00

Read Across America

kk20152020-11-30T20:01:07-05:00

Read Across America is an annual reading motivation and awareness program that calls for every child in every community to celebrate reading on March 2, the birthday of beloved children's author Dr. Seuss.Now in its fifteenth year, Read Across America focuses on motivating children and teens to read through events, partnerships, and reading resources. Reading [...]

Read Across Americakk20152020-11-30T20:01:07-05:00

Make Gathering Leaves A Learning Opportunity

kk20152020-11-30T20:01:08-05:00

A nature stroll to collect leaves can end with a math, science or literacy lesson! Have your children collect leaves then discuss how the transformation of leaves occur from green to the many beautiful colors of autumn as a science lesson. If you need a little help explaining photosynthesis and the entire leaf changing process [...]

Make Gathering Leaves A Learning Opportunitykk20152020-11-30T20:01:08-05:00