Zoom and Sort the ABCs– All you need ispainter’s tapeand sometoy carsfor this one. This one uses painter’s tape in a different way; the painter’s tape forms the road while the cars hold the letters. This letters activity for preschoolers is great for introducing capital and lowercase...
At Blindern, teachers purposefully avoid teaching formal academics, like letters and numbers, unless a child is expressly interested in them. “We think that’s what they’re going to learn in school,” she said. “I don’t think it’s necessary to try to learn [reading] before school. ...
Preschoolers should not be required to do early formal academic lessons from a curriculum.They need opportunities to play and do engaging things with people who are important to them. They need you to read to them and take walks with them. They need to make art, use their imaginations, lea...
If the comments section of my blog are any kind of clue, many kindergarten teachers believe that preschoolers should learnlowercaseletters first. Here are reasons to teach lowercase first: When children learn to read, they will primarily encounter lowercase letters. It’s hard to break the habit ...
learn. There are tests for Brigance online that parents can use to prepare their child; however, don’t push the child to know all of the questions. It’s not a pass or fail type of test per se. Kindergarten should be a wonderful time for children to begin exploring the world of ...
Feeling less techy? Try reviving the lost art of writing letters. That’s right. Use STAMPS. Put actual envelopes in the MAILBOX. Teach your kids what the little flag on the side of the box is meant for. I know. It’s crazy, but it just might work. ...
So… maybe he should go try to date women first. In that conversation, my ability to empathize with desperate gay people who marry, have four kids, and are caught cheating on their wives with other men was born. These horrifying, naive suggestions… this ill-formed advice was rampant in ...
Five- and six-year-old boys and girls use drawing and writing to communicate thoughts. They can write their first and last names. They understand how to write from left to right on the paper and can use both upper- and lower-case letters. Kindergarten children typically begin writing consona...
we’re expecting a two-year-old sit and watch us point to letters on the wall for 10, 15 minutes so that they learn letters, and that’s something that’s not developmentally appropriate. I think a lot of parents, when quarantine started, they tried to do similar style, a...
I get to stay at North Run teaching 3- and 4-year-old littles about colors and numbers and letters and shapes and JESUS. AND I get to be HOME for Joe’s first year of elementary school. That’s one thing I discovered in December that I really wanted. I don’t want to miss going...