Parents, use your Noggin – grab a must-have freebie! For a limited time, hop on over to the Noggin website and score a FREE 30-Day Nick Jr. Noggin subscription. Even better, once your 30-day trial ends, your next three months will be half price – just $3.99/month! Designed for kiddos ages 2 & up, the Noggin app is a free and easy way to encourage early learning, and a great way for preschool-aged kiddos to have a little extra support with the basics they’re already learning in school. Plus, a single account can be streamed across multiple devices, which is perfect if you’ve got more than one little one at home! Note that once your trial period and discounted 3...
As play-based educators, we are in the business of learning. Many of us interpret that to mean "teaching," but the longer I've been in this profession, the more I've distanced myself from that because I've found that it very often gets in the way of the learning.Oh sure, if I choose the subject (or have a subject determined for me by a pre-packaged curriculum) then lecture, explain, demonstrate, and assign in just the right mixture, I can compel this or that child to repeat what I consider to be the correct answers on a test, and this is a kind of learning, I suppose. It is learning that relies on lower level cognitive processes like repetition, memorization, and pleasing an authority...
By Diana Leyva, University of Pittsburgh Reading, writing and math are often thought of as subjects that children learn in school. But as a psychologist who researches how families can help support learning at home, I have found that children can also learn those skills through everyday tasks and chores. One of these chores is preparing a meal – everything from grocery shopping and cooking to setting the table and enjoying the meal. Our research shows this is especially true for Latino families living in the U.S., many of whom are new to school systems in the U.S. but for whom family dinners are a central part of the day. Our study included 248 Latino parents with kids in kindergarten. Some...
CROWDFUNDING NEWS – CharCoder’s mission is “to elevate average human text transmission speed (40 wpm) above and beyond average human text comprehension speed (250 wpm).” Their first … [visit site to read more]
The Kindergarten Reading Comprehension Quarter 2 is here with 9 more books to study and learn! These books are so fun, and your students are sure to gain an increased understanding of a variety of texts while learning to love books at the same time. This comprehensive Kindergarten reading comprehension curriculum is made up of 36 weekly books. Each book comes with four lesson plans. Quarter 2 includes the second 9 weeks of the curriculum. Here is the scope that outlines the books in each week: Throughout the curriculum, students will be exposed a variety of reading comprehension strategies through non-fiction and fiction texts. Building vocabulary will hold a strong focus throughout the curriculum. Therefore, students will gain a deeper understanding of what they...
