Year: 2013

Sign of the Week – Balloon

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It’s Tuesday… here’s your sign of the week! This Week’s Featured Sign: Balloon Watch the Video (Click the Image Below to Play) Free QuickTime Player required [powerpress url=”http://359d6a6391b8c244d1d1-bd1f407c1e8743cc7c885af7afe617dd.r85.cf1.rackcdn.com/balloon.mp4″ image=”http://c0445781.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/signoftheweek/signoftheweeklogo.jpg”] Download the Flashcard (click on the image. The file contains a few color and black-and-white options. Print according to your needs.) This week’s sign comes from: Baby Signing Time Volume 4 – Let’s Be Friends Created specifically for babies as young as 3 months old up to 3 years, yet fun for the whole family! Features host Rachel Coleman, along with animated Baby Alex, Baby Leah, and Baby Hopkins. Baby Signing …

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Someone I Love is Sick: Helping a Child Cope With The Illness of a Family Member

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By Colleen Brunetti, M.Ed., C.H.C   When a loved one is critically ill, your child may have a lot of questions, or need some extra support around understanding what is going on. Be it a parent, sibling, grandparent, or extended family member, chances are high that your child is going to have some worries and fears that may need to be addressed. How you discuss the illness of a family member with your child depends a great deal on how old the child is and what they are ready to handle from a developmental or maturity standpoint. There are a …

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Sign of the Week – Down

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It’s Tuesday… here’s your sign of the week! This Week’s Featured Sign: Down Watch the Video (Click the Image Below to Play) Free QuickTime Player required [powerpress url=”http://359d6a6391b8c244d1d1-bd1f407c1e8743cc7c885af7afe617dd.r85.cf1.rackcdn.com/down.mp4″ image=”http://c0445781.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/signoftheweek/signoftheweeklogo.jpg”] Download the Flashcard (click on the image. Print in color or black-and-white and adjust the print size according to your needs. This week’s sign comes from: Baby Signing Time Volume 3 – A New Day Created specifically for babies as young as 3 months old up to 3 years, yet fun for the whole family! Features host Rachel Coleman, along with animated Baby Alex, Baby Leah, and Baby Hopkins. Baby Signing …

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4 Signs That Educational TV Is Totally Dead

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This is an excerpt from an article published at cracked.com. Please note that this is not a family-friendly site. Click through to the site and this article at your own discretion.    4 Signs That Educational TV Is Totally Dead By David Christopher Bell, August 12, 2013 It’s hard to believe now, but there was a brief moment in history when the idea of “educational television” was a godsend for a world being sullied by the two-headed demon temptress of MTV and Skinemax. Yes, back in the early years of cable, there were entire channels devoted to educating the masses: …

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Sign of the Week – Brush Teeth

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It’s Tuesday… here’s your sign of the week! Brush Teeth Watch the Video (Click the Image Below to Play) Free QuickTime Player required [powerpress url=”http://359d6a6391b8c244d1d1-bd1f407c1e8743cc7c885af7afe617dd.r85.cf1.rackcdn.com/brush%20teeth.mp4″ image=”http://c0445781.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/signoftheweek/signoftheweeklogo.jpg”] Download the Flashcard (click on the image. Print according to your needs.) This week’s sign comes from: Baby Signing Time Volume 2 – Here I Go Created specifically for babies as young as 3 months old up to 3 years, yet fun for the whole family! Features host Rachel Coleman, along with animated Baby Alex, Baby Leah, and Baby Hopkins. Baby Signing Time Volume 2 sets your baby’s day to music as you learn …

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Cool new add-ons for your Kickstarter pledge!

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ADD-ONs: a simple way to get more!   If you have already made a pledge to support our Rachel & The TreeSchoolers campaign on Kickstarter, there’s something new for you: Add-ons. Check out the list below. Choose the one(s) you like best. Yes, you can choose ALL of them if you’d like! Add them up and adjust the dollar amount of your pledge accordingly. Add-ons are only available to those who have already selected a reward. If you have pledged, you don’t have to choose a different Reward to be eligible for add-ons. When the campaign ends, you will get a …

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August Hand-y Craft: Bookmarks

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Create and Read! Color and decorate Hopkins, Simon, Penny, and Abacus bookmarks. Then use them to mark your place in your latest book.   Download directions Download other Signing Time Hand-y Crafts

Helping Children Embrace Change: First Time At School

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By Colleen Brunetti, M.Ed., C.HC. For some of you, the first day of school is just around the corner! Whether it be pre-school, or kindergarten, that big transition can leave both parent and child a little uncertain. Here are some tips to ease the transition on the big day! 1. Create a story Tell the story of what will happen on the first day of school, keep it simple and concrete, such as: “You will wake up and get dressed and have breakfast. Then I will drive you to school. We will hang up your backpack, I will give you …

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Sneak Preview! Activities from TreeSchoolers Episodes 2 and 3

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By Colleen Brunetti, M.Ed., C.H.C   As we head into the home stretch of the Rachel and the TreeSchoolers Kickstarter campaign, we thought you might enjoy a little sneak peek. Here are a few snippits from the Episodes 2 and 3 Activity Guides. Each Guide features detailed lesson plans and activities to reinforce the concepts taught in each episode – perfect for families and schools alike. We hope you have as much fun doing the activities as we had creating them! Episode 2: Grow Plants, Grow!   Activity: Ask an Expert! Purpose: In this episode, Rachel & the TreeSchoolers show that they can …

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TreeSchoolers on the News!

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Rachel Coleman and her brother, Aaron de Azevedo, were recently invited to KSL, the Salt Lake NBC affiliate station. They talk about why they are creating Rachel & The TreeSchoolers and how you can join Signing Time families to fund new episodes. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzQB5kaTWA8?list=UUwl5RE0vM0sBVQzRvM965fw]   Signing Time Families are funding new episodes through Kickstarter!   Parents like you are pledging every minute! Click here for up-to-date information. See the captioned Kickstarter video here.

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