Children are naturally drawn towards activities that give them an instant response. Drawing can be one of those activities. It is an importance concept for their little brains to learn and helps them to understand cause and effect. It can help to develop eye hand coordination and fine motor skills in the process of having fun coloring. Experiencing the first time your little one draws can be such an adventure. The look on their eyes as they begin to move the crayon, marker or pen across ... Read more...
January Wrap Up at The Educators’ Spin On It
Welcome new friends and glad to have you back good friends! Here at the Educators' Spin On It we blog about PARENTING WITH PURPOSE! We teach our children a second language, cook with books , play and learn with our babies Babytime, Tot-school, Afterschool, and garden , January was a fantastic learning and playing month. We have enjoyed learning and growing with our children and hope we were able to inspire you! In case you missed them... Afterschool Express: 100th Day of ... Read more...
Little Hands That Cook with Books: Dairy Group~ Balanced Eating Fun Series
Learning about dairy foods with your child or class? Here's a creative way to create a yogurt parfait and learn about the dairy food group. Plus add a little heart fun to it too! We're working on learning about all the Food Groups in our Balanced Eating Fun Series with Little Hands that Cook with Books. So far we've learned about the: Fruit Group Vegetable Group Meat Group The Dairy Food Group This week we're focusing on the Dairy Group! If you have the opportunity I would take ... Read more...
Bilingual Babies – Borscht and labeling your fridge!
My father-in-law taught me how to cook Borscht. Borscht is the traditional Russian Beet Soup, well his version of it! It is well known that if you put a bunch of Russians in one room and asked them to make a certain dish, each dish would be completely different, but completely right. There are many, many versions of Borscht. The one I make is very similar to this recipe, but we use beef. There are vegetarian recipes too! Here is a link to a bunch of different recipes if you are in the mood ... Read more...
100th Day of School Activities
We're approaching the 100th Day of Kindergarten with our children, or as I like to say 100 Days Smarter! We did a few activities to learn about 100 and thought we'd share. I love these ideas because they teach multiple concepts in one. We enjoy providing learning opportunities and projects for our children afterschool and/or on the weekends with our 5 year olds. Because our time is limited, it's great when we can tie in multiple concepts into a project to help save on time and most importantly ... Read more...
The Learning Garden – Making Plant Labels to Teach Reading
A fun print rich idea for making plant labels with kids for your backyard garden. A great way to extend reading outdoors with your child this growing season. We went outside the other morning and saw that the first of our strawberries have begun blossoming!!! I just put these plants in the middle of our flower garden and they are doing well, but didn't have a place marker or label to say what they are. Although it is obvious to even a 2 year old, I am trying not to just garden, ... Read more...
Little Hands That Cook with Books: Meat and Bean Group~Balanced Eating Fun
We've been learning about the Food Groups with our children and this week it's all about PROTEIN with the Meat and Bean Group! My husband's family is from India and I've learned quite a bit about how an Indian family eats a variety of lentils, kidney beans, garbanzo beans. I was actually amazed at how little I knew about cooking with beans before I got married. Now my children's favorite things to eat are beans and lentils! This inspiration reminded me of a simple recipe to create with the ... Read more...
Kids in the Garden, Learning to LOVE vegetables
It’s easy to fall in love with beautiful flowers. Their stunning colors emerging from the tiniest blossom is one of nature’s most wonderful feats. The children gravitate towards our flowers with a strong urge to pick them, and I let them, save the roses and only because they are thorny. I will cave on those too when I am there to help them cut! I am not a rose gardener, nor any “real” gardener for that matter, but I was gifted a small rose bush that has bloomed and continued blooming year ... Read more...
Giant Pattern Blocks – Teaching Math to Tots with Movement
Giant Pattern Blocks are great for teaching math through movement. I love pattern blocks! The little wooden ones that you can make pictures with, sort by color and shape, teach patterning, symmetry, fractions and more. In fact, I think with just this one manipulative, I would be able to teach most of the kindergarten and first grade math curriculum. They are versatile, easy to use, take up a small space, and are fun to use! My tot, however, is not quite ready to ... Read more...
Little Hands That Cook with Books: Vegetable Group~Balanced Eating Fun Series
Let's Eat the Vegetable Group We're learning about Vegetables this week and how important they are for our bodies. Did you know that you should fill half your plate with vegetables every time you eat? What are your favorite vegetables? Do you know how they grow.? All questions you should be asking your children as they shop with you, cook with you and eat with you. We Like Vegetable (sing to the tune of “Are You Sleeping?”) Do you like veggies? Do you like veggies? Yes, we do ! ... Read more...
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