*Early Elementary

5 Skills Children Build From Putting Together Jigsaw Puzzles

Posted on August 31st, 2010 in *Early Elementary, *Preschool, *Upper Elementary, Fine Motor, Math and Matching, Shapes

My 4 year old and 3 year old girls love puzzles especially 100 + pieces princess puzzles. They are such good friends working on puzzles together and in addition to keeping them occupied it is great to know that they are building important educational skills.

Hand-Eye Coordination
Memory
Fine motor skills
Learn to look at details/ problem solve
Matching

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Green (Spinach) Ice Cream That Had My Kids Asking For Seconds

Posted on July 15th, 2010 in *Early Elementary, *Preschool, *Toddler, *Upper Elementary, Healthy Snacks For Kids

I made green smoothies for my kids today. Since it was nice and thick I called it ice cream. They were so excited that they didn’t even ask about the green colour. They both eagerly asked for seconds!
Here is how we made it:

1 bunch spinach
1 cup milk (I used lactaid since my girls are [...]

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Rhyming With UpWords

Posted on July 02nd, 2010 in *Early Elementary, *Preschool, Literacy

My 4 year old loves to play with the same board games she sees her mommy and daddy play with friends. So I decided to adapt some of those board games for her. One of them is UpWords and since one of her favourite things to do is rhyme we decided to that UpWords was [...]

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Block Building Activity

Posted on June 18th, 2010 in *Early Elementary, *Preschool, *Toddler, Shapes

Here is a fun play activity for your child. Build simple objects with blocks and have your child copy what you built. For toddlers start with stacking two or three blocks on top of each other and as your child is able to copy very simple designs gradually move onto more complicated designs that require [...]

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