Education
Make an Academic Resolution
It’s that time of year again, when parents across the country pause to reflect on the past twelve months and decide how to make 2015 better than 2014.
Whether you want to make more time for your family, focus on your hobbies or help improve your child’s confidence, improving your child’s education is a resolution that can positively benefit you and your child in many ways.
Grit, Perseverance and A Growth Mindset
As parents and educators, one of the most important character qualities we can help fashion within the lives of our children is perseverance. Of course, we never want our children to fail. However, not only is failure inevitable, failure can also provide the keys to future success. As C.S. Lewis penned, “Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.” Learning to grow through failure is key to our child’s future success.
Increasing Nonverbal Communication
While we often think of communication as being primarily in the verbal realm, nonverbal communication is just as important and maybe even more crucial in developing the building blocks for socialization. Recognizing that eye contact, actions, gestures and sounds all send messages about what someone is thinking or feeling sets the stage for perspective taking, empathy and joint attention.
A Unique and Enriching Educational Experience Creative Years Infant Center & Preschool
For over 35 years, Creative Years Infant Center & Preschool has been providing full time & part time programs in a loving, supportive and educational environment where children between the ages of 10 weeks to 6 years can gain an appreciation for a lifelong love of learning.
What Should I Get? An Instrumental Buyer’s Guide
Here at West Coast Music Academy we love the holidays. Why is that? Because this time of year, more than any other, kids and adults are receiving their first musical instruments and getting ready to start down the path to learning music, which we get to take part in! For many people (especially parents), this can be a bit daunting because of everything involved. So, to give everyone a little bit of help and guidance we have provided a short guide for some of the most popular instruments we offer at the Academy.
How Can I Help Prepare my Child for School?
Beginning kindergarten is a huge milestone for you and your child, and you can help prepare him for it in many ways. In kindergarten, children learn more about social and communication skills than academics, so instead of drilling your child in his ABCs and numbers, concentrate more on his ability to cooperate, to talk to and play with others, and to follow directions.
Here are the best ways to get your child ready for his first big year of school.
Ring in Your New Year’s Resolutions!
People often make New Year’s resolutions to make a change in their life or try something new. After a few weeks, or maybe months, people tend to forget about them and stop. It’s just too hard. Maybe you weren’t ready for the change, or the challenge you committed to. Here are some tips on how you can keep your New Year’s resolutions after January 1.
Learning Milestones: Language Skills in Kindergarten
Most kindergartners love to be read to, and this year some even start to read on their own. Teachers also expect kindergartners to learn a few basic writing skills. Here are some specific language milestones you can expect your kindergartner to reach. Keep in mind that children develop at different rates and that every teacher follows a different curriculum, so your child may not do everything on this list.
In kindergarten, your child will learn to
What Can Parents Do To Help Students Be Interested in Science and Math?
A recent article in The Wall Street Journal shows that while the demand and pay for math and science jobs increases, interest in these subjects continues to decline, especially the high school level.
Here are some excerpts from the article if you don’t have time to read it.
Classical Education: Rigor Provides Results
Those who assume that education methods used for millennia can be dismissed within a generation forget that time is the best laboratory, especially regarding human behavior.
It has taken modern educators around 150 years to disassemble an educational system that took thousands of years to refine and establish. The classical method was born in ancient Greece and Rome, and by the 16th century, it was used throughout the Western world.
Why We Teach Art
Almost 29 years ago, my husband and I decided to offer fine art drawing and painting classes to children and teens. Our own children were being asked to draw things for school reports without having the slightest idea of how to go about creating drawings of Indian villages, or a whale, or other topics they were writing about, and their frustration was palpable.
Peer To Peer Proves Best!
When we launched the Peer Mentor program at Trinity Classical Academy to serve special needs students in our Imago Dei school (Imago Dei is Latin for “image of God”), we could not have imagined the positive ripple effect it would have on our school culture at large. This integrated program has advanced the students’ ability to connect successfully and meaningfully with their peers. Additionally, it has set a school-wide standard for loving inclusion and sacrificial service.
How to Nip Teasing in the Bud
Like it or not, teasing is a fact of life — or at least of life before adulthood. Sooner or later, all kids learn that words can be powerful — and as you’ve probably found, this is likely to happen sooner rather than later.
Right now, your kindergartner’s exploring social situations and peer relationships.
Transitional Kindergarten
A child is eligible for transitional kindergarten (TK) if a child will have his or her fifth birthday between: September 2 and December 2
• Transitional Kindergarten is the first of a two-year Kindergarten experience.
• All of the laws that apply to Kindergarten apply to Transitional Kindergarten.
Substitute Teacher Shortage
According to Frontline Technologies, “Across the country, districts nationwide have noticed an issue this school year: a substitute teacher shortage.” Sulphur Springs School District is no different.
Falcons Soar to Success at Fair Oaks Ranch Community School
Outstanding learning opportunities are provided to all Fair Oaks Ranch Community School students as we begin our journey to implement Common Core State Standards. Teachers are eager to learn and implement strategies.
What’s So Important About Kindergarten?
Twenty-five years ago, Robert Fulghum wrote a book called All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten that became a number one New York Times bestseller. This collection of essays is a reminder of all the truths of life that find their roots in those foundational years of kindergarten.
In today’s culture, most kindergarten children have already started to gain an understanding of the basics: identifying letters, numbers, shapes and colors and being able to write their name. However, in kindergarten a new world of social and emotional experiences soon enters their lives.
The Best Toys for Young Children “Don’t Do Anything”
One thing that is often overlooked when buying gifts for young children is what kind of play can result from the toy? For example if the toy makes sounds when your child pushes the button, or moves a specific way it may seem fun and engaging at the time. These types of active toys are considered closed-ended, toy-directed play and they make your child a passive player.
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