It’s About Helping Every Child to Learn

This fall I began working with a local child care center that agreed to use the WoW Kits Terrific Topics curriculum materials to promote language and social skills in a small group of children with a variety of developmental delays. The group is made up of 8 children who are pulled from their regular classrooms [...]

Take a Peek into Your Child’s Mind

Children learn by doing, but watching is what gives parents and caregivers amazing insights into our children’s minds. Take an afternoon in the sandbox for example. Watch your child when he or she is lost in play. What do you see?

A constant conversation- a child who talks continually to himself (or anyone else who may [...]

A Garden Project Grows Young Minds

Large projects are a great way to make learning a fun, real and unforgetable experience for young children. Planning, preparing, planting, tending and harvesting a vegetable garden is a great way to tie in all sorts of important concepts including:

plant life cycles
living and non living
seasonal cycles
weather
insects
food/food groups/nutrition
healthy habits

Gardens also tap into children’s energy and natural [...]

A Look at Seeds Through Multiple Intelligences

It’s that time of year- seeds are sprouting and buds are bursting into bloom! No doubt your children have noticed. Nature’s springtime rebirth is endlessly fascinating to children and the guided exploration of seeds is a great way to give children a front-row seat to this amazing time of year.
Here are some ideas of how [...]

The Case for Natural Playgrounds

It is clear that children need outdoor play time for good health and mental well being. In his book, Last Child in the Woods, author Richard Louv makes the case that not only do children need to spend time outdoors, they need to spend time outdoors in natural environments.
His definition of a “natural environment” is [...]