Pay attention to when your child begins to show an interest in a particular topic. When you encourage learning about an area of interest, you are teaching how to learn. Helping your child learn about a specific topic also shows your child that what is important to them is important to you too. Here...
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Turkey has a problem. He does not want to be Thanksgiving dinner. So, he decides to dress up like other animals on the farm in order to hide from Farmer Jake. The family might just have to eat Rooster for Thanksgiving dinner, because they cannot find Turkey. What will Turkey do to save himself,...
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Poetry is not just for preschoolers who are learning how to read. Poetry can also be used with older children for comprehension exercises such as interpretation or for writing response. Children can find the rhyming patterns in a poem so that they can copy that pattern when writing their own version of the poem...
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Just like the 5 Little Pumpkins poem, the 5 Little Turkeys can also help your child with phonemic awareness. This poem lends itself to learning about counting backwards and subtracting 1. Put out 5 turkey cut outs, and each time a turkey “waddles away” take a turkey away. The use of turkey cut outs...
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Reading is the ability to make meaning from words. This means that your child not only needs to recognize or be able to sound out words, but also has to put the words together and understand what they mean. Interacting with text to construct meaning is often referred to as active reading. You can...
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