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!!
A good idea . . . is a better idea when it is shared by. . .
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Have you ever given much thought to what it takes to spearhead, engineer and build a skyscraper? Probably not. However, you have no doubt, had to collaborate with a peer or co-worker on a project. Did it go smoothly? Were you able to work together to accomplish your goals without a lot of turmoil?
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Classroom charts provide many opportunities for learning, as well as conveying to children the importance of their opinions. Miss Sharon's class recently used two different examples of charting to extend and document two classroom activities. See photos of the charts at the end of the blog.
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October is here and that means fall is in the air . . . It's so fun to be a teacher in the fall, because there are so many exciting activities which involve the season and the coming holidays. In fact, I often wish fall was longer and we weren't pushed by Old Man Winter and his holidays. There is so much to savor, learn, discover and experience with the changing of the seasons. All of October and November will be woven with activities and treasures of autumn.
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Miss Faye knows how music penetrates the hearts and the heads of children.
Everyday she sings to (and with) her sweet chickadees.
They begin their morning group time by singing a song to count their fingers and toes.
Then she sings the following song to each child
as she draws a picture of each them on the white board:
Hell-o everybody!
We're so glad to see you!
Hell-o (child's name)!
We're so glad to see you!
After doing the same routine everyday since school began, the children are now
drawinging pictures of themselves (and their friends) on the white board during play time
and singing the song to themselves (and their friends)!!!
That, is just as it should be when you're three . . . .
