Just for Parents Blog
Please enjoy this blog written primarily by Kathy and/or Sharon with input from the wonderful staff, and students of KIDSPACE Child Enrichment Center. This will be our forum to share with you, the parents, family and friends, of students enrolled at KIDSPACE. We will be sharing some of our favorite stories, recipes, poems and rhymes from the classroom. We will also occasionally pepper in parenting tips and developmental insights of young children. Welcome and enjoy!!
November . . . no green grass . . . no blue sky . . . no bare feet going by . . . no birds . . . no bees . . . no leaves on trees . . . November!
The picture perfect days of autumn are quickly passing us by. Yet, we have managed to immerse ourselves in some of the treats fall lavishes upon us.
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Miss Diane and her inquisitive school-agers were determined to experiment with dry ice and discover if it had other uses besides frightening little children on Halloween.
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The boys worked their entire play time building the roads and then adding houses and blocks for the cars to drive around. It started out as a simple idea
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Recently, a parent shared with me that her daughter rarely tells her anything that she learns at school. This is not an uncommon phenomenon. It happens daily with children preschool through college. As parents, we have invested a lot (blood, sweat, tears, life-lessons,love and money) to give our children the advantages they need to not just survive in this world, but flourish! Of course we are eager to hear stories of how our investments are paying dividends. Some parents are fortunate (though, at times they don't think so) in that they have born a child who likes to share every minute detail of every activity. These parents know everything about school, even what color pen the teacher used on the white board that day. Where's the happy medium?
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A palette of watercolor paints - got these two girls mixing and thinking. What if they were manicurists to the stars?
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