It was a cold, wet rainy day today. So I challenged the boys to see if they could make a tunnel that ran the length of our unit. To do that a fair bit of ‘figuring out’ had to be
QUOTE OF THE DAY
Super Easy Valentines Day Craft
HOMEMADE TACTILE LETTERS
Recently my son discovered the most important letter in the alphabet… To him, that letter is ‘A’ because that is the letter that his name starts with and frankly, he’s pretty darn excited about it. On top of that, all
ARE NURSERY RHYMES IMPORTANT?
You betcha they are! Did you know that experts have discovered that if children know eight nursery rhymes by heart by the time they are four years old, then they are usually among the best readers by the time they are
TV FREE FOR THE FIRST 3 YEARS (ALMOST)
Before my son was born, my husband and I talked at length idyllically about how we planned to parent. Never a harsh word would pass our lips, we would cuddle our child lovingly to sleep every night and life would
HAVING ‘THE TALK’
Last night I spoke at the Council of Parent Participation Preschools annual general meeting. One of the other speakers was Catherine Evashuk, a Certified Sexual Health Educator. As I am a parent of a nearly preschooler I was fascinated by
AS EASY AS 1 2 3
My son will be three in August and recently he has been curious about numbers. I haven”t attempted to teach him the alphabet yet, as he has no interest what so ever, so I thought that learning some numbers would
EASY PEASY MAKE BELIEVEY
WHAT & WHY Teaching our children to listen and learn well through their ears alone is an important and under talked about life skill these days. Since the day of the TV dawned we have become more and more reliant
THE POWER OF YOU
“The likelihood that children will succeed in learning to read at school depends most of all on how much they have already learned about reading before they get there.” University of Newcastle, Quality time project, 2002. Children want to spend time