Valentine’s Day has never really been my favorite. I’m no Valentine’s Grinch, I’ve just always been stumped by the traditional gift choices.
Weekend Reads 2.5.11
Will You Be My Valentine?
Valentine’s Day is rolling in! I have some Valentine favorites from the past that I often use, like these Five Valentine Treats ,and the sweet math activityValentine Candy Heart Count , and I always bust out my post office dramatic play area to coincide with the season of love letters. But I’m always looking for some new ideas, and so I thought I’d share some of the posts that got me excited lately!
NJC Love Around the Blogosphere
Is it just me, or did January fly by? (I have to confess, I still have a few Christmas decorations I missed that are waiting to join their friends in the storage box!) Today is the last day of the month, and that means it’s the last day to use the code “NewYear” to get a discount on my ebook, “Parenting with Positive Guidance: Building Discipline from the Inside Out“.
Weekend Reads 1.29.11
I observed at a wonderful preschool this week where they were using this (it smelled fabulous):
Interview at Simple Kids
I received a wonderful surprise as a late Christmas gift this year! Kara Fleck, editor of Simple Kids, invited me to join a wonderful community by becoming a regular contributor to the Simple Kids blog. I am honored and excited for what this opportunity holds.
Author Study: Robert Munsch
Robert Munsch grew up in Pennsylvania, in a big family with nine kids. Well, to be more accurate, Munsch specifies that he lived in Pennsylvania when he was young, and that he never really did grow up at all. The prolific author struggled through most of his schooling, but always had a passion for writing. He particularly enjoyed writing poetry, both the serious and silly varieties. But writing was his past time, not something he, or anyone else, really valued at the time.
Fast forward a few decades, and you find Robert Munsch working in day cares and preschools, captivating children with his storytelling. On his official website, Munsch recalls, “For ten years I did this without thinking I had any special skill. After all, while I made the best stories in the daycare centre, most of the other teachers made better play doh. I eventually got a long list of stories I told, but I never wrote them down.”
Repost: Preschool Goes Prehistoric with Dinosaurs!
I’ve got dinosaurs on the brain again, so I thought I’d repost this dinosaur unit from July of 2009. What are some of your favorite dinosaur activities?
Weekend Reads 1.22.11
I wasn’t the only one responding to Amy Chua’s essay in the Wall Street Journal. The blogosphere was ablaze! I loved this piece by Jim Taylor PhD:
Five Ways to Make Literacy Learning Meaningful
I was just re-reading this old article from a 2005 issue NAEYC’s Young Child magazine, written by Susan Neuman and Kathleen Roskos, leading researchers in the field of early literacy. The emphasis of the article was on the importance of creating meaningful experiences through which children can truly engage in the process of acquiring early literacy skills. In reference to the 1998 joint position statement created by NAEYC and the International Reading Association outlining developmentally appropriate practice in literacy instruction, the authors write:
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