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Preschool Milestones: Skills Your Child Should Be Learning
On the CBS News website, there's an April 10th story on how to determine if your child is ready for kindergarten. Click here to read the story.
PBS Kids Play! Online Learning for Preschoolers
The PBS Kids Web site is now offering a new personalized learning program called PBS Kids Play! Launched on March 18, PBS Kids Play! is a broadband subscription service that provides kids ages 3 to 6 with individualized, sequential learning based on national educational standards. The service, which costs $9.95 a month or $79 for a year, will funnel all of its fees back into PBS Kids so that the product can keep adding new weekly content.
Child Care Resource and Referral (CCR&R)
CCR&Rs are your local experts on child care and provide parents with many services, including referrals to local child care providers. To find your local CCR&R, visit the New York State Child Care Coordinating Council's website to view their CCR&R Directory.
Nationwide Listings
of Day Care Providers The Day
Care Directory is a comprehensive nationwide listing of day
care providers which allows users to search by zip code. In
addition to the Day Care Directory, Care.com also provides access
to babysitter and nanny listings as well as articles and advice
for parents and child care providers.
Child Care Aware's Child Care Connector also links you to your regional child care options and CCR&R's.
Talking
and listening to infants, toddlers, and preschoolers
A Place of Our Own website
has a Child Development / Cognitive Devlopment page presenting
tips on talking and
listening to infants, toddlers, and preschoolers.
Care
conundrum
For working parents, the path to finding good child care doesn't
have to be a rocky one
Times Union (June 20, 2007) By JENNIFER GISH,
Staff Writer - As if the guilt wasn't enough. When it's time to
head back to work, there's a child care maze to navigate. -download
story
Report:
Start Reading To Kids Early
Positive Effects Notable in Children 3 And Younger
From Poor Families
CBS News (July 13, 2006) - ( WebMD) No
matter what language you speak or how much money you make, it's
never too early to start reading to your children, according to
a new study. -download article
How
your child learns
Listening,
looking, or doing? Make the most of what works
cnn.com (Aug. 17, 2006) By Jeannie Ralston -
Stick with what works. That's what Judi Newell thought when
she started talking about coins with her daughter, Fiona, 3. "A
penny is brown and worth one cent," she began, pointing to a drawing
of one in a book. "A nickel is worth five cents." This is how
she'd taught her older daughter, Anna, 9, about money. -go
to article
Savvy Source for parents
New York City parents: Trying to find
the right preschool for your child? The Savvy Source
for parents is a new fee-based website that rates preschool
programs on everything from storybook reading to kindergarten
placement rates. For a $35 membership fee, the site contains search
maps, in-depth profiles and parent reviews. Visit Savvy
Source at www.savvysource.com
Healthy
Steps for Young Children
A national initiative developed by faculty in the department
of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine, to improve
the quality of preventive health care for infants and chidren.
Healthy Steps provides parent
prompt sheets, parent handouts and quick check sheets on a wide
range of medical, practical and developmental issues - from baby-proofing
the home to coping with toddlers' fears. These materials
are available free of charge at www.healthysteps.org.
StudyDog
StudyDog
is a company that believes success in life starts with being able
to read. They offer a complete set of
early learning lessons for free to low-income families on
their website at www.studydog.com.
Three levels of lessons, in a video game format, are available for
children from pre-k thru the 2nd grade.
Thrive by Five: Teaching
Your Preschooler About Spending and Saving
On-line activities and tips for teaching preschoolers
about money, are available on the Credit Union National
Association's website.
Teaching Our Youngest,
A Guide for Preschool Teachers and Child Care and Family Providers
A 48 page report prepared in 2002 by the Early Childhood-Head
Start Task Force of the U.S. Department of Education, is
available in a PDF download. The report draws from scientifically
based research about what can be done to help children to develop
their language abilities, increase their knowledge, become familiar
with books and other printed materials, learn letters and sounds,
recognize numbers, and learn to count. -download
report
Back to School Safety
Tips
From the National Safety Council & NHTSA, compiled
by the Violence & Injury Prevention Program of Saint
Francis Hospital & Medical Center, are available in
a two-page PDF download. -download
safety tips
Recipes
for Play & A Taste For Play
Great suggestions for play activities from the Rochester
Association for the Education of Young Children in PDF
brochures.
-download Recipes for Play
-download A Taste
For Play
Tips
for teaching handwriting at home
Handwriting Without Tears, headquartered in Cabin
John, MD, is a developmentally based program taught at a child's
appropriate age level. Parental tips on how to teach handwriting
to young children at home are available in a PDF download here.
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