Your daughter will likely not know if you cut a 5-minute warning short since children typically understand the concept of time around the first or second grade.
From octagonal stop signs and rectangular doors, to triangular roofs and circular wheels—shapes are everywhere. Learning shapes not only helps children identify and organize visual information, it helps them learn skills in other curriculum areas including reading, math, and science.
Take advantage of your son’s natural curiosity, and provide him with plenty of experiences to explore nature using all of his senses. For example, go for a nature walk and let your son have fun navigating his way through rocks, mud, tree branches and roots.
The idea that listening to classical music increases intelligence—referred to as the “Mozart Effect”, has become popular worldwide. The study found that college students who listened to classical music for 10 minutes scored significantly higher on a spatial reasoning task.
At 3 years of age, children do not have a true understanding of what a day, week, or month is. In fact, children do not truly understand the concept of time until the first or second grade.
Along with having your child practice tracing and writing letters on paper, you can have your child make letters with fun materials. Head outside and have your child use a wet paintbrush to "paint" letters on a warm sidewalk, write letters in the sand with stick, or use sidewalk chalk to create driveway messages. If it's more of an in...
LeapFrog has many fun, educational games to help preschoolers learn and practice their math skills. A few of my favorites are “Team Umizoomi: Street Fair Fix-Up” that teaches number sense, pattern recognition, shapes, “Olivia” that teaches measurement, numbers, addition and subtraction, sorting and classifying, and “Get Ready For Kinde...