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Is Literacy More Than Just Reading to My Child? YES! Let’s look at different age groups to see how oral language, reading and writing all add up to create a “literate” home: Infants: Oral Language: Have conversations with your baby! After you say something, pause and give your baby time to respond. Reading: Read to […]

How to Help Your Children Learn Strategies for Successful Learning This is the third and final installment in a three-part series that looks at the learning process. Previous features included “Part One: Create a Safe and Nurturing Environment” and “Part Two: Enable Children to Lead Lessons.” Part Three: Monitoring Your Child’s Progress During each stage […]

Reading and Writing Tips For Your Child Kimberly Clayton Blaine, the Go-To Mom, shares tips on how to make your child a strong reader and writer. Click play to watch the video.

Strategies for Successful Learning Part Two: Enable Children to Lead Lessons This is the second in a three-part series that looks at the learning process. Last month’s issue featured “Part One: Create a Safe and Nurturing Environment.” At Tutor Time, teaching is a science as well as an art. Science comes into play as we […]

You started preparing for Kindergarten the moment you enrolled your child in our school. Unfortunately, family members often don’t have the opportunity to see all the amazing activities our teachers do daily. This has left parents asking questions such as “Why don’t you focus on a letter of the week?” Rather than limiting their literacy […]

This is the first in a three-part series that looks at the learning process. Be sure to check back in February for the next installment. What your child learns today is helping lay the foundation for a lifetime.  Stimulating early childhood experiences where children learn to solve problems, make difficult decisions and assess the consequences […]

Absolutely! Look around. Children are using computers, tablets, smart phones — all the latest technology. You may think your child is only playing game, but look again: you will be surprised to see how much learning is taking place. The Learning Process in the Earliest Years The learning process starts at a young age when […]

Literacy is an amazing thing. It helps us read the instructions on a shampoo bottle (wet, lather, rinse, repeat) and make sense of the latest e-mail “good luck” chain (send this to 10 people, or else). As I have discussed in previous posts, oral language, reading and writing all come together in this idea of […]

To Plug or Unplug? From our partners at Discovery Kids Puterbugs Thirty minutes? One hour? How much time should your child spend using technology each day? In a world where everything runs on technology, the answer is not just about counting minutes. The answer depends on how it’s being used. Any amount of time a […]

Learning Care Group When my niece was six years old, she spent a week with me. Her favorite game was to write random letters in a line, push them in front of me, and ask, “What does this say, Aunt Shelle?” I would string the sounds together into a nonsense word that would send her […]

Learning Care Group I remember the day that I considered my son an official “reader.” He was in second grade and we were visiting Santa Claus at a local mall. There were banners detailing the history of Santa strung along the path on which we waited. I watched in utter amazement (and with a flash […]

“Grammy, the geese came back!” my four-year-old granddaughter exclaimed in a recent phone conversation. And while I am always delighted to talk with her, I was especially pleased to hear her story about seeing the geese this autumn. The story she told made it clear that her oral language abilities have reached a level that […]