Developing Early Reading Skills: It All Starts with Sounds

The more we learn about how children develop reading skills, the more we understand that it all begins with sounds. In fact, a child’s ability to play with the sounds within a word (rhyming, inventing rhymes, adding or removing the sounds within a word) is a key indicator of a child’s future success in developing [...]

Do Babies Really Understand Words?

We’ve all been told to speak to our babies to encourage their language development, but how much does an infant really understand? New evidence shows that they understand quite a bit! A recent study out of the University of California, San Diego shows that baby brains process words just as adult brains do. This flies [...]

Raising Bilingual Children

As the world becomes more and more connected, the benefits of celebrating diversity are clear. Children who are exposed to different cultures, different experiences and different languages will be better prepared for whatever lies ahead. Whether or not a parent (or parents) come from another country, it is this line of thought that is leading [...]

Preschool Science: Something to Talk About

Preschool children are filled with wonder and curiosity about the world around them. They want to know how things work, why, and what they can do to influence things. They want to see what happens if they do this or touch that. They are natural scientists. Unfortunately, most preschool programs don’t tap into this interest [...]

Read to Your Baby

It’s never too early to start reading to your child. Even babies benefit from being read to, and the benefits are deep and long-lasting. Language- Through books babies learn vocabulary and when you talk to them about the pictures you see, they learn communication skills Social/Emotional- taking the time to sit together, with baby in [...]