Classroom of Discovery

09/27/2020

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DINOSAUR SUNCATCHERS 🦖 Great idea!
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08/12/2020

The University of Florida created this amazing blending board tool which will be an excellent resource for classroom teachers and parents to utilize during distance learning.

UFLI is proud to unveil our latest digital resource for teaching reading: The Virtual Blending Board! Have you ever wondered how you could engage your students in practice to reinforce their decoding skills in a virtual learning environment? The Virtual Blending Board allows you to do all the things you would do in person with a low-tech blending board and more! A special thank you to our friend, Dr. Angelos Barmpoutis, from UF’s Digital Worlds Institute for collaborating with us to bring the Blending Board to life! Start exploring at https://research.dwi.ufl.edu/op.n/file/bca9ju45kvvrvoan/embed

08/10/2020

SuperDville

When kids who think differently join together, they empower each other. That's why we're a hosting free fun community zoom co-hosted by SuperD! kids from our cast. This Sunday 6:30pm EST. https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMtcOqvrzgrE9x1f5Lqr8QAUmK4imtYPCWz
Sign on with your kids (ages 7-12) and let's see what our superpowers are when we put our out-of-the-box brains together! Register now!

08/07/2020

AhaParenting.com

Creativity might be defined as putting things together in novel ways, or seeing the world, or a given problem, with fresh eyes. While some people are born with talent in certain mediums -- an artist’s eye, for instance, or perfect pitch, or a writer’s way with words -- everyone has the capacity to be creative. All of us need access to our creativity to solve the problems of daily life, and all of us need to express our creativity to engage our whole selves and feel fully alive... The same parenting that helps kids become emotionally healthy encourages creativity...

Also in this week's Aha! Parenting Tips:
*Can You Prevent Sibling Fighting?
*Routines that Toddlers Can Understand
*5 Steps to Get Re-Energized.
*Last Chance for Discount Code for Dr. Laura's Online Course

https://mailchi.mp/ahaparenting.com/creativity-toddlerroutines-siblingfights

08/05/2020

5 Steps to Get Re-Energized

5 Steps to Get Re-Energized

"I now take orders only from my inner Knowing... It feels to me like a loving, playful guide, like the reason it will only reveal the next right thing is that it wants me to come back again and again, because it wants to do life together." - Glennon Doyle

08/01/2020

Janet Lansbury

Thanks to ECE superstar Amanda Morgan from Not Just Cute - Intentional Whole Child Development for this wisdom.

07/30/2020

Read Aloud

Love this resource for families!!!

Read Aloud 15 MINUTES is a non-profit organization that is bringing together partners nationwide to make 15 minutes of daily reading aloud the new parenting standard. When every child is read aloud to for 15 minutes every day from birth, more children will be ready to learn when they enter kindergar...

07/30/2020

How to connect your bright child with like-minded kids through books

How to connect your bright child with like-minded kids through books

“How can our children connect with a community of readers who like off-the-beaten path children’s books?”

07/29/2020

Played

Played

PLAYed is about change-about clarity- about commitment-about sharing-about bringing together-about children and their future. We talk to experts in ECE from around…

07/29/2020

The Importance of Bare Feet | Maggie Dent

The Importance of Bare Feet | Maggie Dent

Surely one of the cutest parts of newborn babies is their feet. They are like little blobs, soft and squishy and yearning to be covered in kisses. Part of the reason they are so cute is that when they are born these little blobs are made up of a mass of cartilage rather than fully ...

07/29/2020

Arkansas State Teachers Association

Teachers, you are appreciated and missed! 🙌😂😉

07/25/2020

How Play Energizes Your Kid’s Brain

How Play Energizes Your Kid’s Brain

Scientists have long studied play to gain insights into the developing human mind.

07/22/2020

Setting Limits That Make Mealtimes Enjoyable

Setting Limits That Make Mealtimes Enjoyable

In this episode: A mother writes that she and her husband are frustrated that they can’t share a peaceful meal with their toddler. They’ve tried a number of different set-ups, but their son ends up throwing tantrums and food. “I...

07/22/2020

Stay-At-Home STEM Activities! 🏠

Stay-At-Home STEM Activities! 🏠

KiwiCo delivers everything needed to create, explore, and learn!

07/22/2020

Let's Make Art

Let's Make Art

We are all born creative. Let your kids make magic on paper. 😄

Our new Kids Art subscription box encourages little paint-stained fingers to explore their creativity.

To let your kid create a piece of art, we have
🔹Instructional booklet containing 4 projects + bonus activities
🔹Curated art supplies
🔹Pre-cut paper
So take delight in watching your kiddo enjoy creative and fun art projects.
This month, say hello to your kid’s art world with Let’s Make Art. 🎨

07/22/2020

Conscious Discipline®

Conscious Discipline®

Bringing our skill of "Choices" to life this week, here is a clip from Dr. Becky Bailey about how to structure two positive choices for children. Read and watch more examples here in our free online Book Portal for the chapter on Choices: https://bit.ly/2TWyir0 As always, we wish you well! #iHeartCD

07/22/2020

Conscious Connections, partnering with Conscious Discipline

07/21/2020

Integrated Learning Strategies

HERE'S WHY MESSY PLAY CAN HELP YOUR CHILD'S LEARNING DEVELOPMENT

Providing opportunities for messy play can help your child develop motor skills, critical thinking skills and creativity.

[source: Happy Art]

07/21/2020

What Mrs. Jennings Understood: Why Standardization is Always the Enemy of Learning

What Mrs. Jennings Understood: Why Standardization is Always the Enemy of Learning

I went to kindergarten back in the 1960's. We played outdoors, built with blocks, pretended, and made some art. I don't thin...

07/20/2020

44 Phonemes

When teaching students the 44 phonemes (sounds), it is important to show them where the sound is articulated in the mouth. When I am teaching sounds to my students, I give them a small mirror so they can see what their mouth or tongue is doing as they make each sound. For our teachers, Discount School Supply sells a pack of twelve small wooden mirrors that is perfect to use when teaching the 44 phonemes!

44 Phonemes Free video resource for teachers. When teaching students to read, modeling the correct letter sounds is critical. Learn how to pronounce the 44 p...

07/20/2020

Award-Winning Learning Program – $45 for 1 Year

Award-Winning Learning Program – $45 for 1 Year

Kids Phonics | Reading | Math | Preschool | Pre-K | Kindergarten | Homeschooling | Curriculum Overview | Newsletter | Gift Cards

07/20/2020

The Hook

The Hook

This fox is having the time of his life! 😂🦊

07/20/2020

Here's The Entire List of Education Companies Offering Free Subscriptions Due to School Closings

Here's The Entire List of Education Companies Offering Free Subscriptions Due to School Closings

With schools closing across the nation, parents and educators are in bit of a panic as they try to figure out how kids can learn and obtain their education from home. If this sounds like

07/20/2020

Comet NEOWISE from ISS, a calming real-time view | The Kid Should See This

Comet NEOWISE from ISS, a calming real-time view | The Kid Should See This

Space enthusiast Seán Doran downloaded 550 long-exposure photos taken from the International Space Station and compiled them into a real-time video. The

07/19/2020

When Empathy Doesn't Work - Janet Lansbury

When Empathy Doesn't Work - Janet Lansbury

“Rarely can a response make something better. What makes something better is connection.” – Brené Brown, Ph.D. I once entered an elevator to the sounds of a crying infant. The mother faced forward and was holding the baby … Continued

07/19/2020

Reading Rockets

This is a great strategy connecting motion (muscle memory) to the phonemes (letter sounds).

Reading expert Linda Farrell works with early stage reader Calista on short vowel sounds, blending and manipulating sounds, reading whole words, and fluency.

See the complete Looking at Reading Interventions series here: http://ow.ly/2G2050Axg7h

07/19/2020

The Artful Parent

The Artful Parent

Homemade playdough is the BEST! Here's a super easy, super quick, no-cook recipe for making your own! Plus you can customize it to make any color and even add glitter or essential oils.

Once you've made your playdough, here are 15+ creative ways to play with it -->
https://artfulparent.com/2016/01/creative-playdough-ideas-for-kids.html

07/19/2020

Janet Lansbury

Thank you, Mona Delahooke, Ph.D., for your wisdom and encouragement. ❤️

07/19/2020

Wilder Child

Gotta have those pockets for frogs and treasures!

07/19/2020

Mi Granjita - Maestras Jardineras, Inicial y Preescolar

Mi Granjita - Maestras Jardineras, Inicial y Preescolar

Juego de manos para estimular la conexión de hemisferios y coordinación visomotora 🤩
💟 Más actividades educativas ➡️ http://bit.ly/31hVxh0

07/19/2020

My Child Won’t Stop Hitting

My Child Won’t Stop Hitting

In this episode: A parent says she feels helpless because her 2-year-old has been hitting other kids. She says her son loves people and enjoys playing with others, but parents are now keeping their kids away from him. She has...

07/19/2020

Parenting On Your Own Path with Dr. Emily W. King

There is no right choice here. Everyone is absolutely doing the best they can. So let’s choose the school environment where our children and our family can do the best we can. #parenting #learning #stress #education #covid19 #quarantine #school #teachers #parents #kids #iep #virtual #connection #resilience

07/19/2020

Edu-Cake Yourself With These 7 Cool Science Cakes

Cool science cakes for all ages!

If you need a science project idea, or simply love science, these cakes are perfect for you. Not only are they clever — they're also super yummy.

07/19/2020

Lost Reading Instruction Blues: What's a Worried Parent to Do? | Shanahan on Literacy

As we move forward with hybrid and distance learning, Timothy Shanahan has some excellent advice on literacy activities and strategies parents (and teachers) will want to utilize.

This blog entry explains how parents can help to keep their kids from falling behind in reading during the pandemic.

07/18/2020

What Your Toddler Thinks Of Discipline - Janet Lansbury

What Your Toddler Thinks Of Discipline - Janet Lansbury

I’ve been told that I “understand” toddlers (and nothing could be a greater compliment). This might be because my own emotional development was partially arrested as a toddler for reasons I haven’t yet unraveled, but it’s probably also because after all the time I’ve spent observing todd...