One day my sister, who is a GREAT MOM, discovered her four-year-old in the master bedroom with a large pair of scissors “experimenting” on the mattress! She exclaimed to herself
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I Don’t Understand – So Why Should I Care? Sometimes I ask myself, “How would I feel if I went to a school where all the instruction was in a
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What is the problem with “L-M-N-O-P”? Children come to school singing their ABCs but not knowing the meaning behind “elemeno-P”. This can be a problem for children and teachers. The
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Teaching one child or a room full of children is both an opportunity and a challenge! Parents and teachers often ask me, “Where do I start?” My answer always is,
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The best time for learning is now, and the earlier the better! Research on early brain development reveals that children come into this world with most of the brain cells
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Pre-reading skills such as saying letter names, recognizing letters and learning their sounds are very important. Children need a firm foundation in these letter skills before putting sounds together to
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A friend once said, “A horse has a brain with two sides, but the two sides don’t work together! If you are going to train horses to avoid an obstacle,
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