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The Best Herbs to Grow with Children

Gardening with kids can be a learning AND sensory experience. Children learn best with they activate their sense of sight, touch, smell, sound, and taste. Adding an herb garden can be the easiest way to start gardening with your kids.I am excited to introduce you to Victoria a talented mom with education schooling and experience in organizing local mom groups. She shares her parenting journey and kid activities at Squiggles and Bubbles.The Best Herbs to Grow with ChildrenI'm so ... Read more...

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Announcing Fun Educational Activities for #SmartMarch on Pinterest

Are you looking for fun educational activities for your kids?Top Educational Pins on PinterestI'm excited to announce that we are partnering with Parents Magazine during the month of March on PINTEREST! Together we'll be bringing you tons of creative and fun educational activities including IQ-boosting ideas you’ll love. We'll be sharing games and creative projects as well as ways to prepare for Preschool, Kindergarten and Standardized Testing. The Educators' Spin On It and Parents Magazine ... Read more...

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Getting Kids Excited about Gardening

Gardening with kids is messy, educational, and FUN! Tips for gardening with kids, keeping them excited for the whole season long!As part of our Kids in the Garden; Learning and Growing series, we have expert gardener, Matthew Hiemstra, joining in to share ways to help keep kids excited about gardening for the entire season. Matthew is also the creator of #gardenconnect, a global gardening project he founded to connect gardeners with a common purpose.  Cultivating Enthusiasm - Keeping Kids ... Read more...

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How to Make a Garden Plan with Kids

Gardening with kids is a great way to incorporate academic and social learning in the outdoors, but like all great activities, it is important to make a plan. Here's how to make a garden plan with kids. Today we have a guest post from MaryAnne about making a garden plan with your children. MaryAnne is an amazingly talented women, master teacher, mom to four kiddos, and author of MamaSmiles. Her blog is a fantastic resource for learning, parenting, and crafting. If you haven't read any of the ... Read more...

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Garden Science SOIL Experiments

Getting kids in the garden is a great way to make science REAL!  It is one thing to read a bunch of books and articles about plants, their needs, adaptations, and environments, but it is another thing to physically DO and LEARN about these things. Although there are a bunch of AMAZING teachers in our schools, I find that often, hands-on science experiments are not as present in my children's daily education as I would hope for. We as PARENTS need to make TIME to provide our ... Read more...

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Begin Gardening with Kids

Welcome to Kids in the Garden; Learning and Growing, a month long series to inspire parents and teachers to garden with their children. In addition to our regular blog posts, we will be featuring gardening articles with tips and advice from some amazing writers, parents, and teachers. This article contains affiliate links.I am excited to introduce you to our first author of this series,Birute Efe author of Playtivities. Not only is Birute a talented writer, but when you learn that English is her ... Read more...

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How to Tame Your Thought Monster by Katie McClain

Raising kids is an everyday challenge, especially when it comes to how to react to emotions and our child’s personal thoughts. Now imagine that as a student or classroom teacher with around 20 children growing and changing and developing their own personal thoughts and emotions.  It can be quite a challenge.  Having a child that is confident in how they react to their emotions is key to their success.   Teaching your child to identify with their emotions is so very important.  Feelings are ... Read more...

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Raise a Scientist – Mighty Kids in S.T.E.M.

Much of our family dinner conversations center around science. I believe that science education starts early and that we must provide opportunities for our children to experience and experiment from an early age. For our kids, ages 1, 4, and 7, learning isn't a special activity, it is an everyday opportunity. This week my daughter came home from school inspired. "I want to do something so important with my life that someone will write a biography about me.” She announced. “I want to invent or ... Read more...

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Kids in the Garden – Learning and Growing

Gardening with kids is a great learning opportunity to teach math, science, social studies, reading, writing and social skills. We often underestimate the power of a garden as an educational tool.  Here at The Educators' Spin On It, we strongly urge parents and teachers to PLANT A SEED with your child and watch them grow.Kids in the Garden - Learning and GrowingKids in the Garden - Learning and Growing, is a collection of articles all geared to help parents and teachers interact with ... Read more...

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Fine Motor Activities for Vision and Hand-Eye Coordination

Young children need many opportunities to develop their vision and hand-eye coordination. Here is a collection of our personal household favorites of fine motor activities for kids. This post has been brought to you by our friends at EYE POWER Kid's Wear!  We try to do at least one activity each day that includes fine motor practice. These activities are also fantastic ideas to do if you have a little one wearing an eye patch that needs to strengthen their vision, which is why I started ... Read more...

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