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And this happened: math in the moment

By Tina Charney Posted on September 15, 2019 Posted in Preschool Learning, Preschoolers

These are some of my favorite moments… when learning is happening because you, or a student, or your child “just thought of it” and you “seize the moment.” It might be that you will teach or learn or discover something …

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Tagged with: math, teachable moments

We are the “Investigators”

By Tina Charney Posted on September 7, 2019 Posted in Preschool Learning, preschool science

We had a serendipitous start to our school year! This is a story from two multi-age classrooms of two-and-a-half to four-and-a-half-year-olds from our second week of school! Living here in the desert, I have been lamenting that we have access …

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Tagged with: Preschool science

Everything Old is New Again

By deb@debellsworth.com Posted on November 1, 2018 Posted in Parenting

Deb’s 90-year-old father was cleaning out his files recently, preparatory to moving to a small apartment. One of the things he gave her was his “baby book”–in this case, a free booklet compliments of Borden’s Farm Products Co. What a …

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Can You Say “Incredible”?

By Tina Charney Posted on September 15, 2018 Posted in Preschool Learning, Preschoolers

  We have just started the school year at Summit School in Phoenix and already our preschoolers are proving themselves to be amazing. Or in this case, we should say “incredible.”* *Dictionary definitions of “incredible” vary as to the degree …

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Tagged with: preschool, preschoolers

Shadow Play

By Tina Charney Posted on February 23, 2017 Posted in Preschool Learning, Preschoolers
Shadow Play

Shadows are fascinating, and they can be a lot of fun. Robert Louis Stevenson wrote a now-classic poem called “My Shadow.” Many of us remember it from his A Child’s Garden of Verses. It begins: I have a little shadow that …

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Tagged with: Preschool science, Shadow play

New Year’s Resolutions for Parents

By deb@debellsworth.com Posted on January 1, 2017 Posted in Parenting, Preschool Learning, Preschoolers

May we suggest some New Year’s resolutions for parents of young children? I will give my children more time to just play, with blocks and other open-ended toys, and with toys that they can pretend with, like dress-up clothes and …

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Tagged with: new year's resolutions, parenting, preschoolers

Learning at Lunchtime

By Tina Charney Posted on November 13, 2016 Posted in Parenting, Preschool Learning, Preschoolers

Lately, I’ve been noticing how much learning is going on in our classroom at lunchtime! And I was thinking today that of course that could happen at home, as well. All you need is one or more curious kids and …

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Tagged with: apple story, lunchtime, preschoolers

Summertime … and the learning is easy

By Tina Charney Posted on June 21, 2016 Posted in Parenting, Preschool Learning, Preschoolers

It’s the middle of June, and some of us are already in the summer doldrums – the kids have been out of school for several weeks and (in Phoenix, at least) it is already so hot our energy is sapped. …

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Tagged with: learning activities, preschooler, Summer Break

It’s Summertime! Get Out of the House!

By deb@debellsworth.com Posted on June 7, 2016 Posted in Parenting, Preschool Learning, Preschoolers

At St.David’s, we are lucky enough to have a school forest as part of our property, as well as a wonderful city nature trail behind that, leading to a bridge that goes over Minnehaha Creek. We can say, without a …

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Tagged with: kids, nature, outdoors, preschool, preschooler, summer

Deep Thinkers

By deb@debellsworth.com Posted on January 1, 2016 Posted in Preschool Learning

Preschoolers can be surprisingly deep thinkers. In the summer, we raised monarch caterpillars as we usually do. One day, Deb noticed one of the boys sitting in front of the cage in which our 5 caterpillars were now hanging from …

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