“The only difference between teaching 8th graders and preschoolers is the height.  Everything else is about the same.” 

I start out each year with my pre-kindergarten parents with this same line.  My experience in teaching is varied, but most of my public school educational experience is from teaching junior high - 8th grade.  And, with each class I teach in the preschool age, I notice there isn’t THAT much difference.  See if you agree: Read more…

Reading is one of those major milestones in a young child’s development.  As a parent, we wait with baited breath for the day to come that we don’t have to read Harold and the Purple Crayon one more time to our child because they can now read it to themselves.  It is with joyful celebration that we acknowledge their accomplishment of the written word.

But when does all this reading begin?  It starts with the first book the parent picks up and shares with the child, at one day, one week, one month or older.  The things we, as parents, do with our children at a very young age prepare them for becoming sucessful independent readers. Read more…