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Learning Through The Seasons
activities to prepare Young Children for Success in School and a Lifetime of Learning By munisingnews@gmail.com | on November 25, 2020 by: Iris Katers, Jean hetrick, Cheryl anderegg, tim Fox, and esther Macalady Thanksgiving Day is Still Thanksgiving No matter how we celebrate Thanksgiving Day this year, teaching children to give thanks and be grateful is a critical part of developing a good, kind, and loving person.
Learning Through The Seasons
Activities to Prepare Young Children for Success in School and A Lifetime of Learning By munisingnews@gmail.com | on October 14, 2020 by: Iris Katers, Jean Hetrick, Cheryl Anderegg, Tim Fox, and Esther Macalady Developing Mathematicians is Fun When children plan, build, and rebuild structures they develop math skills and learn to focus on solving problems needed all their lives. They learn to think like engineers.
Learning Through The Seasons
Activities to Prepare Young Children for Success in School and A Lifetime of Learning By munisingnews@gmail.com | on September 30, 2020 by: Iris Katers, Jean Hetrick, Cheryl Anderegg, Tim Fox, and Esther Macalady Learning from Home and School Now Whether children are learning from home, school, or a combination about now is a good time to evaluate. How is it going? How is the home study space working?
Learning Through The Seasons
Activities to Prepare Young Children for Success in School and A Lifetime of Learning By munisingnews@gmail.com | on September 09, 2020 by: Iris Katers, Jean Hetrick, Cheryl Anderegg, Tim Fox, and Esther Macalady Tiny Happy People Learn Language We often hear that babies should come with a manual to help guide amazing early development. The BBC’s new program called Tiny Happy People found at bbc.com is very close to a baby brain development manual for the family.
Learning Through The Seasons
Activities to Prepare Young Children for Success in School and A Lifetime of Learning By munisingnews@gmail.com | on September 02, 2020 by: Iris Katers, Jean Hetrick, Cheryl Anderegg, Tim Fox, and Esther Macalady Quiet Time Talks and Reassurance What are some quiet easily managed activities you can set up especially during this difficult time? You can talk together while doing some reading or art for starters. Sit together, do an activity, and model calmness. Listen to what they have to say.
Learning Through The Seasons
Activities to Prepare Young Children for Success in School and A Lifetime of Learning By munisingnews@gmail.com | on August 19, 2020 by: Iris Katers, Jean Hetrick, Cheryl Anderegg, Tim Fox, and Esther Macalady Working Together Around the House Young children enjoy being included in many household chores and learn important skills at the same time. In addition, young children begin to understand that everyone helps in a family.
Learning Through The Seasons
Activities to Prepare Young Children for Success in School and A Lifetime of Learning By munisingnews@gmail.com | on August 12, 2020 by: Iris Katers, Jean Hetrick, Cheryl Anderegg, Tim Fox, and Esther Macalady “Kuplink! Kuplank! Kuplunk!” It’s the sound of late summer berry picking in Robert McCloskey’s “Blueberries for Sal” where Sal and her mother meet Little Bear and her mother bear on the same blueberry hill. The moms mistake each other’s children, but all ends well.
Learning Through The Seasons
Activities to Prepare Young Children for Success in School and A Lifetime of Learning By munisingnews@gmail.com | on July 29, 2020 by: Iris Katers, Jean Hetrick, Cheryl Anderegg, Tim Fox, and Esther Macalady Developing Your Tiny Happy People “A chatty child is a happy child” – Tiny Happy People Although the United States has many useful sites for parents raising children age zero to five, the British might have one upped us with the new site supported by the BBC called “Tiny Happy People.”...
Learning Through The Seasons
Activities to Prepare Young Children for Success in School and A Lifetime of Learning By munisingnews@gmail.com | on July 15, 2020 by: Iris Katers, Jean Hetrick, Cheryl Anderegg, Tim Fox, and Esther Macalady Creative Ideas for Grandkids’ Visits Grandchildren: My favorite hello and my hardest goodbye. While we try to teach our grandchildren about life, our grandchildren teach us what life is all about.
Learning Through The Seasons
Activities to Prepare Young Children for Success in School and A Lifetime of Learning By munisingnews@gmail.com | on June 24, 2020 by: Iris Katers, Jean Hetrick, Cheryl Anderegg, Tim Fox, and Esther Macalady Kids Can Make No-Bake Energy Spheres “Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.” Hippocrates With all of the engineered snacks tempting children there is a Super Nutritionist to the rescue.
Weekly | The Munising News
All about town with Mary Jayne By munisingnews@gmail.com | on June 17, 2020 While riding about the other day on my cart, I noticed a tent going up on Chocolay Street on the lawn of Wm. G. Mather.
New media use plan helps families
The latest journal of Pediatrics October 2016 (aappublications.org), has released new recommendations for technology use by children. The report "Media and Young Minds" relates how technology can be managed in the home (healthychildren.org/Media Use Plan), the number of suggested hours of screen time, and helpful hints for parental guidance. The report mentions some positive aspects and uses.
Let’s make Halloween fun last
Halloween is not about the candy. It is about dressing up in costumes and pretending you are your favorite character. It is about using your imagination to scrounge around for all of the parts that make up a whole costume. Halloween night is almost anticlimactic to all of the preparation and anticipation. Children are often sad when they must put away the costumes, light sabers, and crowns. Why not keep all of Halloween fun around for a while?
Arachnids fascinate young people
Spiders are often over feared and misunderstood. When a spider web and huge "Charlotte" appear in the yard you might turn them into family STEAM activities at home (science, technology, engineering, arts, and math). Adults and children can observe a spider with a magnifying glass for several days while it adds to its web, collects insects, and encases them. Check on spiders working at night with your flashlights. How much progress do they make by morning?
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