It was so nice just to have my daughter home this week from school for Thanksgiving! It gave her lots of opportunities for playtime with her younger sister who will be turning two next weekend. I think with our busy schedules sometimes I forget she's just six and needs just as much play as ever with the schedule she has at school in first grade. After School Playtime This week they had a baby nursury with the baby dolls and even an airplane trip with them. There were lots of handprint ... Read more...
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Screen Free Week
This week is screen-free week, a time to un-plug and re-connect with the people in your life.Look UP! Look OUT! Take as much time as you possibly can this week to UNPLUG from electronic devices and PLUG into wonder, play, experiences, and re-connect with the PEOPLE that you love.Here at The Educators’ Spin On It, we believe in the power of parenting with purpose and have pledged to turn off our screens for the week and make even more meaningful connections with our children, spouses, ... Read more...
Learning about Emotions: Tot School {24 months}
Let's face it our Toddlers at this stage in life are full of emotions that they just don't quite understand just yet let alone verbalize. My daughter is 24 months and she just started using the word sad and happy which has helped us quite a bit in communicating her wants and needs. Our focus this week was Emotions for Tot School. Here are a few books we read during Tot School Baby Faces, My Many Colored Days, and Today I Feel Silly. We used a child safe mirror and ... Read more...
The ABC’s of After School Activities
The activities that we include in our children’s daily lives After School are just as important as the things that we ensure are in our children’s education at school. As parents we put much thought and consideration into the decision of the school they will attend and which teacher they will get each year. A Parent is a child's first Teacher Do you put as much effort into your own home and what your child will do each day after school? Year after year it all adds up and you are and will always ... Read more...
After School Enrichment Community
Did you see that Google+ has just created Communities? We are so excited about it because it's created an amazing platform for our Sunday After School Express Friends. What are Google + Communities? Find Communities for your interest How do you use them? Why are we choosing After School to focus on for a Community? We want to create a place for parents to share the resources they've discovered and created to support their child's learning, discoveries, creativeness and fun ... Read more...
