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February 2009
Theme: “Let's Play Math”
Burgin
If you are familiar with the works of Tana Hoban , then you already know how totally cool they are. An artist and a photographer, she used her knack for composition with a camera to create kids' books that very much capture the essence of the era. Her books use inner-city graffiti, cute retro kids in bell bottoms, lines of trash cans and other ordinary objects to portray concepts like
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If You Can Sing, You Can Count!
Sometimes we over-formalize things with our littlest ones. Preschool learning is about life, amid joy, with fun, always. We try to resist thinking of teaching our children how to count as some specialized activity separate from the rest of the day. We've given you our favorite ideas to sneak number play into your bookshelf. Now we've got a tune in our heads and we can't get it out! Count and
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Measuring Me
It starts sometimes as early as that precious one-candle celebration, often blooms proudly at the hold-up-two-fingers and "i free!" festivities after that. And it continues for as far as we parents can see from our perch in the early years. The joy of announcing how big you are. How old you are. How tall you are, how heavy you are. How old you are going to be on your next birthday. How much
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Wise Words from Shel Silverstein About Reasons to Count
Shel Silverstein gives ice-cream loving kids a tragi-comic reason to learn to count to eighteen. Eighteen Flavors Eighteen luscious, scrumptious flavors-- Chocolate, lime and cherry, Coffee, pumpkin, fudge-banana, Caramel cream and boysenberry, Rocky road and toasted almond, Butterscotch, vanilla dip, Butter-brickle, apple ripple, Coconut and mocha chip, Brandy peach and lemon
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More Than Numbers: Toys to Introduce Matching, Patterns and Sequences
There's more to math than 1, 2, 3, and thank goodness because all of the other stuff is what makes it really fun for the little ones. Many of the simple, brilliant toys that best absorb children's attention are the very ones that fire up their mathematical engines. Here are a few gems we highly recommend! Matching Colors and Textures Puzzles by Infantino The very notion that certain things
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Savvy Picks for December, 2008
Our top ten posts about the wonders of rituals and routines:
- A Season of Rituals
- Savvy Welcomes Betsy Brown Braun on Helping Keep the Fa-La-La in the Holidays with Your Children
- Savvy Picks: Best Children's Books of 2008
- Savvy Welcomes Lyn Colwell and Corey Colwell-Lipson on Greening the Holidays
- Teaching Your Child About Giving Instead of Getting at the Holidays
- Homemade Gifts to Make with Preschoolers
- How to Keep Rituals a Bit Flexible, a Little Lively, and a Lot Unexpected
- Savvy Welcomes Ginger Carlson on How to Give Experiences Not More Things
- Inspired Indoor Activities for the Shortest Day of the Year
- Holidays Are Delicious
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