Math & Science activities for families presented in a workshop from Every Child Ready to Read--customized by New Orleans Public Library, based on ECRR 2011.
Math & Science activities for families presented in a workshop from Every Child Ready to Read--customized by New Orleans Public Library, based on ECRR 2011.
Here we have a work about "lexical games". You'll find many useful games you can use in your classroom with your students!!
Lexical Games are very important to motivate shy students to participate in the lesson. Moreover, it is helpful to improve skills and memory.
I hope you enjoy it!!
Significance of Language Skills in the Games Industry and how to motive stude...Thomas Hulvershorn
Based on my own experiences learning English in School I was invited to give a key note presentation about the relevance of Language know how in Business and how we can motivate our students to learn another language.
Having already been invited to numerous talks in local Schools and presented to over 300 students I was happy to share my insights during a National Cross Sector Conference at Dundee University.
The webinar will help Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) practitioners, to get an insight into how to make effective learning corners. It also discusses the required material that can be developed or used for these corners.
The Chest of Secrets - universal program for children of age 5-9. Program which teach TOC tools (Cloud, Branch, Ambitious Target Tree). 30 scenarios for 1 school year with resrources for teacher (colour, printed, high quality, beach mats) and ready resources for children (each child has is own set).
Here we have a work about "lexical games". You'll find many useful games you can use in your classroom with your students!!
Lexical Games are very important to motivate shy students to participate in the lesson. Moreover, it is helpful to improve skills and memory.
I hope you enjoy it!!
Significance of Language Skills in the Games Industry and how to motive stude...Thomas Hulvershorn
Based on my own experiences learning English in School I was invited to give a key note presentation about the relevance of Language know how in Business and how we can motivate our students to learn another language.
Having already been invited to numerous talks in local Schools and presented to over 300 students I was happy to share my insights during a National Cross Sector Conference at Dundee University.
The webinar will help Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) practitioners, to get an insight into how to make effective learning corners. It also discusses the required material that can be developed or used for these corners.
The Chest of Secrets - universal program for children of age 5-9. Program which teach TOC tools (Cloud, Branch, Ambitious Target Tree). 30 scenarios for 1 school year with resrources for teacher (colour, printed, high quality, beach mats) and ready resources for children (each child has is own set).
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Cupcake Digital’s commitment to social responsibility and caring is taking a giant step in a new direction that promises to earn the increased respect of parents and educators alike.
Read our parent’s guide and learn how Cupcake Digital’s apps are designed to be part of your child’s learning and growth process as they prepare to enter kindergarten and make the most of the early years of elementary education.
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The Little People of Tomorrow Preschool
Ashley Covington, Cassandra Fredrick, David Gould, Shannon Kline, & April Underwood
Preschool Age
Preschool boys and girls are between the ages of 2 to five years old. They are very active and curious.
The Preschool Classroom
A preschool classroom needs to be organized, and the materials need to be accessible to all children,
Safety is the number one priority when it comes to preschoolers.
The furniture needs to be oversized and cushy.
The classroom should be divided into centers that are labeled so the children will associate the word with the activity.
All centers need to be visually accessible
Preschool Centers
Preschools need a classroom that is inviting and safe for the children to explore. It need to be spacious and provides a lot of room for them to explore.
Diverse Population
Read books that contain diverse characters
Look at magazines and photos that contain different cultures
Play games and use dolls that are of different diversities
Watch shows or videos that feature diverse population
Allow guest speakers to come in and share with the students
Talk and introduce about other languages
Teach about Geography
Make different foods for them to try
Play dress up to different customs
Decorate your room to incorporate diversity
Language Development
We as teachers and most of all parents, must never assume that a child is a certain age is just like everyone else. If you are a parent and are concerned about your child’s development, speak to the teacher and also consult with your child’s primary care provider.
Developmental Activities for Preschoolers
Make a scrapbook of favorite or familiar things by cutting out pictures. Group them into categories, such as things to ride on, things to eat, things for dessert, fruits, things to play with. Create silly pictures by mixing and matching pictures. Glue a picture of a dog behind the wheel of a car. Talk about what is wrong with the picture and ways to "fix" it. Count items pictured in the book.
Read to the child. Sometimes "reading" is simply describing the pictures in a book without following the written words. Choose books that are sturdy and have large colorful pictures that are not too detailed. Ask your child, "What's this?" and encourage naming and pointing to familiar objects in the book. Sing simple songs and recite nursery rhymes to show the rhythm and pattern of speech. The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) is the professional, scientific, and credentialing association for more than 150,000 members and affiliates who are audiologists, speech-language pathologists and speech, language, and hearing scientist.
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The Little People of Tomorrow PreschoolAshley Covington, Cassa.docxcherry686017
The Little People of Tomorrow Preschool
Ashley Covington, Cassandra Fredrick, David Gould, Shannon Kline, & April Underwood
Preschool Age
Preschool boys and girls are between the ages of 2 to five years old. They are very active and curious.
The Preschool Classroom
A preschool classroom needs to be organized, and the materials need to be accessible to all children,
Safety is the number one priority when it comes to preschoolers.
The furniture needs to be oversized and cushy.
The classroom should be divided into centers that are labeled so the children will associate the word with the activity.
All centers need to be visually accessible
Preschool Centers
Preschools need a classroom that is inviting and safe for the children to explore. It need to be spacious and provides a lot of room for them to explore.
Diverse Population
Read books that contain diverse characters
Look at magazines and photos that contain different cultures
Play games and use dolls that are of different diversities
Watch shows or videos that feature diverse population
Allow guest speakers to come in and share with the students
Talk and introduce about other languages
Teach about Geography
Make different foods for them to try
Play dress up to different customs
Decorate your room to incorporate diversity
Language Development
We as teachers and most of all parents, must never assume that a child is a certain age is just like everyone else. If you are a parent and are concerned about your child’s development, speak to the teacher and also consult with your child’s primary care provider.
Developmental Activities for Preschoolers
Make a scrapbook of favorite or familiar things by cutting out pictures. Group them into categories, such as things to ride on, things to eat, things for dessert, fruits, things to play with. Create silly pictures by mixing and matching pictures. Glue a picture of a dog behind the wheel of a car. Talk about what is wrong with the picture and ways to "fix" it. Count items pictured in the book.
Read to the child. Sometimes "reading" is simply describing the pictures in a book without following the written words. Choose books that are sturdy and have large colorful pictures that are not too detailed. Ask your child, "What's this?" and encourage naming and pointing to familiar objects in the book. Sing simple songs and recite nursery rhymes to show the rhythm and pattern of speech. The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) is the professional, scientific, and credentialing association for more than 150,000 members and affiliates who are audiologists, speech-language pathologists and speech, language, and hearing scientist.
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Kids are constant learners and are always hyperactive. In preschools, they learn about themselves and the world by the means of various fun activities. They get indulged in finger painting to unleash creativity and dance improves their motor skills. See this slideshow for the creative & fun activities of children in preschools.
7 steps to improve creative writing by Dr. Nicholas Correa
Cupcake Digital's Parents' Guide
1. Parents’ Guide
About Cupcake Digital Apps
Cupcake Digital apps are designed to encourage your child’s learning and growth development as they prepare to enter
kindergarten. Your child can read, play, and learn with Cupcake Digital’s fun and educational apps! Every app includes a
Grown-Up’s Corner to encourage discussion and a Common Core Corner to explain how each app meets specific
standards and skills required for school. We encourage you to extend your child’s experience by downloading Common
Core State Standard related activities to do at home.
Cupcake Digital values education. It is our goal to create engaging apps that foster learning on and offline. Cupcake
Digital’s apps are vetted by educators to ensure that the apps focus is on building academic skills teachers expect
children to have. This parents’ guide will lead you through our apps and provide ideas for offline activities to aid in your
child’s preparation for kindergarten.
Getting Ready for Kindergarten
Developing the skills to be ready for school takes time. Cupcake Digital’s apps can help enrich the quality of the time
your child spends with technology. Each enhanced story app is equipped with open-ended conversation starters,
educational, age-appropriate games, and downloadable activities to enrich the learning experience.
In addition to using the wonderful digital technology available today, interaction with others is still the key to having a
well-rounded child. Children need extensive practice to gain critical life skills, as well as an understanding of the world
around them. Practice can take many forms, from independent play with our apps to structured or unstructured
experiences offline.
Reading
Teachers encourage parents to foster early literacy at home by reading with your child every day. Reading just 20
minutes a day, as recommended by experts, builds essential vocabulary, an appreciation for the rhythm and power of
language, and exposes early learners to new people, places, and things.
Cupcake Digital’s story apps are developed with three unique ways to practice reading. Each mode is designed with a
different level of reading support:
Just A Book is designed for you and your child to enjoy reading a book together
Read to Me is for your child to listen to a story independently. As the narrator models good reading, children
learn what fluent reading sounds like. In this mode, words are highlighted to teach young children directionality
(that text moves from left to right and top to bottom) and one-to-one correspondence (that each word is one
written word).
2. Read and Play is designed for children to read independently. Children can tap on unknown words for narrator
assistance. If you child has heard a story multiple times, give this mode a try.
After reading any book, start a discussion with your child. In every Cupcake Digital app, we included a Grown-Up’s
Corner. Our questions are open-ended to prompt meaningful conversation about the story and encourage critical
thinking. After sharing a book with your child, use these sample questions to get a conversation going:
What did you like about this story?
Who is your favorite character in this story? Why?
How do the pictures help you figure out what is going on in the book?
What does this book remind you of?
Nonfiction titles support kids natural curiosity about the world around them. Here are some sample questions to initiate
a conversation:
What did you learn about ____________?
Choose a picture in the book. What does this teach/show us?
How are ________and __________ alike? How are they different?
Describe the different kids of ______________ you have seen.
Greatschools.org suggests both fiction and non-fiction titles that tap into a child’s many interests.
Nursery rhymes, poetry and other silly books are extra fun for children to hear read aloud:
Read books with rhythm. Rhyming books, poems, and songs are special because of the rhythm required to read
them, making it engaging for kids and adults
A great activity is to rhyme words from books with your child- real or invented!
o Cat, sat, hat, mat. What words sound like that?
o Wubbzy, lubbzy, crubbzy, dubbzy
Children often have a favorite book. Reading the same books over and over is a great learning exercise for children to
predict and even retell a story. Ask your child why that special book is their favorite. Your local library is a great place to
find new books to read with your child.
Writing
Teachers encourage parents to work with their children on letters, writing their name, and how to hold a pencil
correctly. Doodling and drawing are great ways to develop the muscles that will lead to writing, so encourage practicing
holding pencils, crayons and markers correctly.
3. Cupcake Digital’s apps have a variety of games to encourage writing, including letter and word-tracing activities.
Cupcake Digital also offers many downloadable worksheets on their website, Cupcakedigital.com. Many are designed to
develop writing skills.
Here are some other ways you can help your child develop into a writer:
Practice writing letters (in the sand, with water and a paintbrush on a sidewalk)
Practice writing your child’s name (capitalizing only the first letter)
Write and name letters in shaving cream while taking a bath
Use magnetic letters on the fridge to learn letters
Hunt for letters while in the car/doctor’s office, etc. (Can you find the letter A?)
Encourage proper letter formation. It’s important to practice as children develop muscle memory that will last a lifetime.
Here is a helpful guide.
Math
Teachers encourage parents to practice counting with their child before entering kindergarten. Counting is complicated
for young children, requiring cognitive skills and number memorization. It requires an understanding of many
components, including the following, to understand numbers and counting:
Each number represents a quantity: Five beans = 5
Each number said (1, 2, 3…) goes with one and only one quantity of objects: Move and line up the quantity of
beans as you count them
Knowing the last number said is the quantity: count 1, 2, 3,, 4. How many are there? There are four
Knowing the number of objects doesn’t change regardless of arrangement: five beans in a line = 5. Five beans
in a pile still equal 5.
Knowing that the size of the objects doesn’t change the quantity: six big elephants or six little flowers, the
quantity is still the same.
Cupcake Digital apps have a variety of games that encourage the understanding of numbers and counting. These games
provide many opportunities for children to move and arrange objects, match quantities to numbers, and see them in a
number line as they practice counting. You can also download practice worksheets from their website.
Here are some practical ways your child can practice counting:
How many plates do we need to set the table?
How many magnets do you see on our refrigerator?
Bring me three potatoes.
Which two snacks would you like to take to the park today?
Which four stuffed animals are you going to pack for this trip?
4. How many shoes are in the closet?
Cupcake Digital’s games and worksheets encourage the development of other important math concepts such as
geometry and measurement.
Here are some other ways your child can experience these concepts:
Play with cups and containers of various sizes in the bathtub. Pour from one cup into another to demonstrate
how the quantity of water in a cup of one size fits or doesn’t fit into a cup of another size
Explore: Are there more pigeons or ducks at the park today?
Which dog/book/car/building is bigger/smaller/shorter/taller/closer/farther?
Clap out patterns/repeating beats (clap, clap, touch my knees, clap, clap, touch my knees)
Look for shapes and name them (circle, square, rectangle, etc.)
Socialization
Teachers expect children to come to kindergarten knowing how to:
Get along with others
Take turns playing and talking
Sit still and listen
Speak for themselves
Use manners with adults and peers
Work independently and with others
Walk in a line and to follow directions
Here are some easy ways families can give children opportunities to develop these important skills.
Go to story time at a local bookstore or library and learn to be quiet during reading time
Play with other children at the park and learn to share, cooperate, and be friendly
Join teams or clubs where interaction with peers is necessary
Have your child order his/her own food at a restaurant
Encourage your child to do as much independently as possible (choose his own clothes, put on shoes without
assistance, serve his own plate of food, brush her teeth on her own, etc.)
See a play to practice being respectful of the performers, sitting still, and following along
Take turns talking by asking and answering questions, and teach your child to be patient and not interrupt
Play follow-the-leader: Everyone gets a turn being the leader and a follower
Play board games and learn to be a good winner and loser
Enjoy games like Simon Says and Ring-Around-the Rosie and Red Light, Green Light. Wired.com has a list of 30
outdoor fun games, may require little or no equipment.
5. Experiences
Teachers expect students to come to school with a variety of experiences to enhance their classroom learning. Here are
some ideas for activities that give children a great foundation:
Go fishing
Take a camping trip
Play in the snow or rain
Go to the ocean and get wet and sandy
Play with mud and get dirty!
Ride in an elevator/on an escalator
Visit the zoo/petting zoo
Visit science/children’s museum. Find one near you here.
Make shadows with flashlights
Take a bus, taxi or train
Play with a cardboard box
Have a water fight
Swim in a pool, lake or river
Blow bubbles
Do household tasks such as laundry, raking leaves, sorting recyclable items, taking our the garbage, etc.
Make and play home-made instruments
Go to the grocery store and let your child help you pay
Dance!
Sing songs
Climb a tree
Build a fort in your home with blankets, chairs, pillows, etc.
Build a fairy house out of recycled materials
Camp out in the backyard/living room
The opportunities are endless! Be creative and open to your child’s input on things you do together. What is your
child’s passion? Dinosaurs, fairies, cars, or horses? Follow those leads and explore! Grandparents.com has some simple
hand games to enjoy with your little one too:
Cupcake Digital is proud to support families and they prepare their children for the rigors of school. Cupcake Digital
understands that young children have a variety of needs. Each app and offline activity is designed to meet a wide range
of learning styles and abilities. Cupcake Digital regularly designs new and exciting titles in addition to developing offline
content for young learners. Check Cupcakedigital.com often and look out for Cupcake Digital’s latest apps on iTunes,
Amazon, Google Play, and Barnes & Noble.
6. This guide was created in partnership with veteran educators and parents, Cristina Kaviani-Johnson, M.A., Jennifer
Denham, M.A., and Ramona Conn.