Many children are heading back to school this week (if not already back already). It is a time of transition and change, of new faces and old. It is a time of adjustment and a time of schedules. And that’s just the teachers!
Concentration, or Memory, is a simple game for children that is wonderful for increasing memory skills and learning to pay attention to details. While commercially-created games are available in a wide variety of themes and ability levels, you can also create your own to fit your child’s interests and learning level.
Even our little kids will get a kick out of this great idea for using fun food to create some excitement about geometry! It is a great way to explore shapes, and even older kids can benefit tremendously from this hands-on activity with shapes.
Here’s a fun activity to try with your child that promotes critical thinking and school readiness. This idea can be adapted for any age from preschool through grade school and beyond. Best of all, no supplies are needed!
Here’s a quick and fun activity to do with your child to encourage creativity and writing. If your child is not old enough to write yet, he or she can dictate the words or tell a story about what they see. Read more…
August is here, and soon (if not already), children will begin to head back to school. Whether it is preschool a couple of mornings a week, a traditional grade-school program, college or even homeschooling, establishing a routine can make the next day run so much smoother. The key to the entire process, though, is to start NOW, not the night before.
My boys are at the age where we have to designate a “postal” helper for the day and take turns. They both LOVE to get the mail and bring it in the house, mainly because they love to see if anything has their name on it! So this summer, I’ve found a way to get mail to my kids!
Besides being an awesome place to find cool and unique products for ever-growing minds, WonderBrains has embraced a learning philosophy unlike most others. Products at WonderBrains are centered around an educational idea called Howard Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences. Peter, one of the co-creators of WonderBrains, has a wonderful article on the site that explains in depth what Gardner’s theory is all about.
I recently attended a teacher training session specifically geared to enlightening early childhood teachers in this theory. While most of us associate intelligence with either verbal, mathematical or logical astuteness, there are other categories to consider. While many of these are difficult, if not impossible to measure in the “standard” sense, they are valid areas of intelligence. Read through a few of these, and see if you can identify any of these areas in your child or even yourself.
