Simple Ways to Encourage Imagination
If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our free email feed. Thanks for visiting!My 2.5 year old son, C, has just started imaginary play. He stretches his neck high into the air to become a giraffe and pretends to drink milk from an imaginary bowl when he is acting like a cat. It makes my heart melt every time he is inspired to try something new. So I was THRILLED when I discovered that this week’s theme for MemeTales and PBS Kids’ Readathon was imagination. C and I jumped on the computer and read There’s A Dinosaur in the Park - a simple story about a boy...
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I spend a few weeks each summer teaching at a camp for Kindergarten through Fifth Graders. This time, I was inspired by my 2.5 year old’s love of Legos and decided to teach a class that was filled with different construction projects. Each day, we read a different book introducing the activity and then rolled up our sleeves to start building. The results were very impressive if I don’t say so myself. I hope that they inspire you too. Project One : Junk Boats First up, we read “Toy Boat” – a book about a boy who creates a boat out of a can, a cork,...
Read More25 Kid-Friendly Ways to Practice Kindness
It’s week four of MeMeTales and PBS Kids’ Readathon and I couldn’t be more excited about the topic: character development. My 2.5 year old and I cuddled up in front of the computer to read “Good Habits to Have” by Jenny Feely. The story shares kid-friendly ways to show kindness, honesty, confidence and perseverance. All of the examples are easy for little ones to understand and are simple to implement. After the book ended, I brought out my latest creation: a jar of kindness. Inside were cards sharing kid-friendly ways we could help our community. I...
Read MoreEngaging Reading : Act It Out
Guest post by Suz at Lovely Little Bookworms. The next blogger in our guest series is Suz, the writer behind Lovely Little Bookworms. This former elementary school teacher is passionate about reading and it shows. Her posts share simple ways that you can help your children become lifelong readers. I love them all! Her guest post shares an easy way to help little ones connect with stories: encourage them to act it out. Enjoy. I have been thinking a lot lately about what really makes kids love reading from an early age and to me it is all about them seeing books as fun and...
Read MoreHow to Start Your Own Book Share
Written by Susan Wilson – a National Board Certified elementary school teacher and stay at home mom. Our neighborhood is bursting with children. Seven 3 year olds live next door to one another. Bizarre, but true. One day, as my two sons (ages 3 and 1) and I were walking our tower of books back to the local library, I realized that we probably had a library full of books right next door. So, on our way home, I stopped and asked my neighbors if they’d be interested in a book share. I would pick two themes (insects, fairies, firetrucks, etc.) and everyone would contribute...
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