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4 Fun Ways to Learn with Strawberries

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Strawberries are one of the most refreshing and popular fruits out there. And berries are so good for us too! It’s likely that strawberry season is starting or even in full swing in most places in the US. How fitting it is that May is National Strawberry Month! Since strawberries are so delicious and so available right now, why not celebrate them this month? We can use strawberries both for treats and for learning activities! So let’s look at some fun ways to learn with strawberries.   Cooking of course So the first thing we want to do with strawberries …

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Explore Spring and Nature

Explore Spring and Nature this Month!

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Spring is the perfect season for our little ones to explore, wonder, and grow.  While playing outdoors is a great way to do this, books can fuel our kids’ minds as well as their outdoor play. And most kids can’t resist a new stack of picture books from the library. We know that reading with our kids strengthens their early literacy skills. But reading together about spring and nature can also spark their curiosity about the world outside. So, whether the story is about flowers blooming, bugs crawling, or rainy days turning into sunshine, it’s likely to capture the magic …

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Keep our Kids’ Brains Healthy and Strong

Let’s Keep our Kids’ Brains Healthy and Strong

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Brain development is a key part of childhood, and we parents are often concerned with the mental and developmental health of our kids. So during this year’s Brain Awareness Week, let’s think about how we can nurture the mental development of our children. This doesn’t mean that we have to play classical music at all hours and keep our kids busy with intense educational activities. At the same time, there are so many tools and toys that make it easy to keep our kids’ brains growing and developing. So let’s think about some easy ways to keep our kids’ brains …

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Encourage our Kids’ Creativity

Let’s Encourage our Kids’ Creativity

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Do you have kids who love to create stuff? Creativity and art can take many forms. So whether it’s crayons, paint, beads, blocks, fabrics, sticks, or Legos, we can call it art. March is Youth Art Month, so it’s a great time to encourage our kids’ creativity. It’s easy to let these activities fall aside in the busy-ness of our days. And screens can be a big distraction to the other things our kids enjoy doing. So here are 3 ways to encourage our kids’ creativity this month. Most kids love creating. And while the mediums may vary, we can …

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National Draw a Dinosaur Day

National Draw a Dinosaur Day is Today!

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Does your kid love dinosaurs? January 30 is National Draw a Dinosaur Day. This is a perfect activity to bring some fun to a late January winter day. Even if your kids aren’t into dinosaurs, drawing one can be a fun challenge, even a competition. And the results can be as varied as each individual doing the drawing. You might wonder how this is even a holiday – seriously, Draw a Dinosaur Day? Keep reading to find out how this day came to be and to get some educational ideas for National Draw a Dinosaur Day. So how did this …

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Encourage a love for reading

Encourage A Love for Reading with a Cozy Reading Corner

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As parents, we have a natural concern for our children’s reading skills. We’d love to have an early reader or a child with a great capacity for reading. Even if your family isn’t into reading, we can recognize the importance of reading in our children’s educational efforts. Here we are at the end of October, heading into colder days with less outdoor play. So it’s a great time to consider ways to spend time looking at books and reading to our kids.  How about setting up a cozy reading corner to make this a fun and special activity for your …

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Have Fun Learning with Apples this Fall

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October is a national month for so many things! Many of these are worthy causes for us to consider, while others are just for fun. This time, we’re going to look at ways to have fun learning with apples since it’s National Apple Month. Apples are considered to be the “star of fall,” even though pumpkins seem to steal the show. But apples weren’t always a favorite.   Did you know that apples used to be gross? Apples have been growing for centuries. But they were not the sweet fruits that we enjoy until more recent history. Today, most of …

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easy STEM learning for preschoolers

Easy STEM Learning for Preschoolers

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Sometimes the idea of STEM education can seem daunting. I mean, what if you’re not a math whiz? How can you even care about getting your kids interested in math or science if you’re not feeling capable? Thankfully, it isn’t that difficult to get your preschoolers into STEM activities and thinking. Even if you aren’t into the STEM fields, you can handle these ideas for easy STEM learning for your preschoolers. STEM learning is a major topic in education. This acronym, STEM, stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. Now, these may sound a little too lofty for our preschoolers. …

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learn through playing

Can our Kids Learn Through Playing?

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Play-based learning is gaining popularity as an important part of early childhood education. And there are good reasons for this. Play-based learning is exactly what it sounds like: learning through play rather than through lectures or drilling. Play and fun are the languages of our children. When we teach in a fun way, our kids retain information better. What better way to learn than through playing? Play-based learning is considered to be a very effective way to help preschoolers develop as a whole. Think about first-hand experiences, hands-on projects and experiments, lots of exploration and discovery, and both real-life and …

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get to know Hopkins the frog

Get to Know Hopkins the Frog This Month

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April is a month full of celebrations, remembrances, and honorable causes. But did you know that April is also National Frog Month? Yup, it’s a month for us to get excited about frogs. So that’s what we’re going to do. We like frogs here at Signing Time, and we love our own Hopkins the Frog! So we’re all set to celebrate National Frog Month, and we’d love for you to get to know Hopkins the Frog this month. Learning about frogs is fun Along with getting to know Hopkins, it’s a good idea to learn about frogs in general. Frogs …

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