Keep up the play at home! Research indicates that children learn most effectively through play. In addition to being fun, play promotes creativity, imagination, cognitive, social, and emotional development in a joyful setting that allows for repetition that leads to skill mastery. Imaginative play encourages healthy development in toddlers. Pretend [...]
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Coloring is an iconic childhood experience. Your Student Workbook provides many opportunities for your child to color. Not only is it fun, it promotes fine motor development, hand-eye coordination, spatial awareness, and sensory processing. Color is one of the first ways young children make visual distinctions and categorize what they [...]
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A child’s natural desire for repetition is the brain’s instinctive way of helping them master skills and concepts. When engaged in an activity, the brain and body send electrical signals back and forth. The more practice the nervous system has at receiving and sending messages, the more efficiently it operates, [...]
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If you choose to do the optional “Home Fun Activities” remember to keep them in your tote bag so that your child can use them class. We won’t use them every week, but when we do, your child will be thrilled to participate with their own puppets and props. The [...]
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It is so fun to see these little ones start to participate! Remember, don’t force (or bribe) participation. Your child will participate when he/she feels comfortable. He/she is learning just by listening and watching. But do stay in the same room as them, for safety reasons. Also, the more you [...]
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We’re off to a great start! To keep up the momentum, listen, listen, listen to the White Horse album. Your little one will engage and participate more readily in class when s/he recognizes the music! Also, Remember to bring your tote, workbook and wrist bells to class every week. Did [...]
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