Hi, I'm Werawati, you can call me Ms. Wera or Ms. Edu-Be-Doo. I Hope you have some useful information in my blog about Kindergarten and all the kids stuff. Have fun y'all..Ta..Ta
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Sunday, June 27, 2010

Play is Kid's Work for Healthy Child Development

Kids are under so much pressure today, that time for creative and imaginative play takes a back seat to the day's pressing demands. Appointments, deadlines, finances and job demands dominate the thought processes of parents, while the importance of developing the cognitive skills, social skills, and problem-solving skills in children of all ages is often deemed better left to the schools. Kids are playing less at home and at school. Lack of creative play can hinder child development. Parents who want the best for their children must allow time for kids to play.

Play is one of the earliest interactions that children have with the world. Even in early infanthood, curiosity and imagination lead to object manipulation, cause and effect responses, and development of dexterity and physical strength. Babies learn how to control their surroundings. Toddlers begin to emulate adults in creative play, and can use it to conquer fears, develop emotional security, and learn new competencies. Preschoolers and young children learn how to interact with others, and can develop their emotional maturity, linguistic skills and social skills.

Elementary school aged children continue to develop cognitive, emotional and social development skills through play. In young school aged children, free play encourages decision making skills, leadership skills, and also serves to help young children identify their own areas of interest. Through this, kids receive inner suggestions of their likes and dislikes. With time, children more clearly identify their preferences and can passionately follow and develop their talents and interests.

Mums engaging in play with babies or young kids can get a refreshing look at the world through a younger person's eyes. However, it is important for mum to remember that kids' free and self-directed play help children come to terms with self-confidence, manipulation skills, negotiating skills, and decision making skills. It nurtures creativity and imagination to levels that help kids deal with complex situations and problems which later contributes to forming problem-solving skills. Children's playtime is more than play. It's kid's work for healthy child development.

Too often, today's world suffocates the creative and imaginative potential available for the free play that is a significant contributor to healthy child development. TVs need to be shut off. Neighborhoods need to be safer. Time has to stop to let kids play in their own world. Kids need to balance organized and free play, playing with mum and self-directed playtime. This basic need is a right of every child. Parents need to take a step back and make sure their children have time to enjoy creative play time. Take a refreshing look at the world. Get involved with your children and join in their games.



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Teaching Science Through Cooking

Cooking is an art as well as a necessity of our lives. It can bring great joy to both the cook, as well as those who partake of the well-prepared meal and it can also be a valuable and nutritious addition to our overall health and well being. One might think that cooking and science have little in common, yet that is simply not true, as cooking offers a wide variety of opportunities to teach science to our young. By sharing quality time cooking with our children, they can learn valuable lessons not only in the ethic of work and responsibility but also in the area of science.

Experimenting In The Kitchen

Simple scientific experiments can be conducted within the comfortable confines of ones own kitchen and the end results can be edible! What an approach to science! Yet because the students are learning in a comforting and enjoyable atmosphere, it is not like the stifled book-learning approach to science. Cooking offers the child a hands on and tangible experience, while at the same time teaching them a life skill they can use daily. Children from kindergarten to college can gain practical applications and life-long knowledge by using this approach. Some example of fun experiments parents can incorporate include making candyfloss and ice cream. Making ice cream, for example, allows the exploration of the freezing point of matter. One can also talk about the role of temperature, whipping and foaming during the process. Children can learn a wide range of science concepts while they enjoy the learning process. What is more is that they get to enjoy a tasty treat at the end of the process.

Difficult chemistry concepts such as radiation, convection, conduction, energy and carbohydrate chemistry may seem overwhelming to many students, yet exploring and appreciating these science concepts during our food preparation can makes it a fun and exciting adventure. For a start, one can study the various forms of heat transfer and their different roles it play in the cooking process. With regard to specific foods, milk and dairy products can be discussed as you use them in your cooking, such as how the cows produce milk, what milk is made of, the nutrients within the milk and the difference between fermented and non-fermented products.

Plants can also be easily incorporated into our discussions. Cooking vegetables is a science itself. Even preseving them, such as kimchi, is an excellent introduction to food nutrition and preservation. By the way, talking about kimchi, in it lives a host of live organisms which one can conduct experiments on. Moreover, it also gives you an excellent opportunity to talk about Korean culture and food. Concepts such as osmosis, pH value, density of the food, as well as dissecting the vegetables to identify plant tissue and structure can be explored too.

With the wide variety of creative ideas for experimentation, the kitchen is a wonderful learning laboratory for people of all ages.




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Saturday, June 26, 2010

Some Of The Best Ways To Teach Phonics Sounds To Kids

If you want to teach phonics or the relationship between written letters and spoken words to your kids, you must get ready to put in a lot of effort. Simply giving phonics instructions might be of no use. The little brain of your kid would be baffled by the phonics sounds, phonics rules and structures, and would not be able to understand either verbal or written English.

To help your kids learn phonics sounds in an easy and quick manner, you may use phonics worksheets or phonics work books along with phonics videos or CDs. While the phonics worksheet would help your child learn the letters and the alphabets, the phonics CDs and videos would make him/her learn the phonics sound. It is a great way of establishing a clear link between the phonics sounds and the words they correspond to.

To teach phonics sounds, you may buy MP3s or CDs with songs and stories. Play the English songs while you are driving your child to school, or while he is playing or having his dinner. Phonics CDs include letters and alphabets pronounced in a very lucid manner. English stories offer another interesting way to tech phonics sounds to kids.

Buy phonics games or phonics puzzles to teach phonics sounds to your kids. You can even read them out to make your kids understand the phonics sounds. Start with simple phonics sounds, like consonants, and then gradually move on to the learning vowels, long vowels, silent consonants, diphthongs, and so on.

Whichever method you use to teach phonics sounds to your kids, make sure that kids enjoy it. If they enjoy the phonics games, phonics CDS, or phonics books, learning would become easier and simpler for them.

Also, it is imperative to test whether your child has actually learnt anything or not. It would be good to prepare simple phonics worksheets containing activities like matching the phonics sounds with the correct letters, joining the dotted lines to know the word or the alphabet, and so on.

For teaching phonics sounds, there are plenty of phonics CDs, phonics games, and phonics worksheets available at round-the-corner book stores, as well as online. You may search over the Internet for websites that provide phonics lesson plans, phonics CDs and phonics games for kids.

One such website that you may visit for the best phonics lesson plans is www.lcfphonics.com Here you would get printable phonics worksheets, phonics lesson plans, phonics games, and downloadable CDs containing hundreds of songs, stories, and fun-filled activities to teach phonics, grammar, and vocabulary to your kids.

As well as English phonics worksheets and phonics games, here you may also get comprehensive phonics worksheets and lesson plans for French and Spanish as well.

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Started Schooling Kindergaten

A Moment for young children when faced with nursery school. A world facing new adventures and new habits, away from parents for several hours, out of the house for a while and meet new people who know the child. Teachers and classmates will be the ones who more often children encounter. This requires thorough preparation, in addition to Kindergaten selection and registration process to the school.

But what is often overlooked in the rush to prepare for kindergarten is that there is a very important participant in a process that also needs to do some preparation. The man is a mother.

Mother plays an important role in the process of new habit for the child to live a new life. Sometimes the mother ignores simple things are actually very important. Mother still consider the child as her little angel who must always be protected so that makes the mother over protectife on his son. This is very dangerous for the child's mental development and in the future. If you are ready to send children to kindergarten, you should avoid the nature and habits like this. Allow the child to grow independently with itself.

Now the time has come to let a little to be away from home every day for several hours a day and begin the road toward independence. Mother wants the right thing for her child and started moving as the people themselves is the right thing. But there are a lot of mixed emotions and feelings experienced by a mother even in getting your child or ready gal for kindergarten, much less on the day you let your kids go to the beginning of that uphill road toward higher education and succeed.

One person who can do many things to help mom get ready for the big day is the father. If he is a sensitive dad, he'll realize that there will be a lot of anxiety and concern along with the good old selfish desire not to let kiddo who left home. But the father may sound reasons for mothers and kindergarten children who either as deal with a new way of life. Gently counseling mothers that the road to independence is what will make that a child is young people succeed and ultimately a healthy and well adjusted adults, the logic of the system can filter your way to emotional and started to convince myself that this head case is true.

Other mothers who have been through this before, they are a great resource of extraordinary comfort and advice for how to get through the separation, especially some first day and week when the house looks empty dan too calm. Friends can advise that the mother on how to fill that time, in the things that can be done to reduce anxiety, such as volunteering in schools and in the wonderful victory that the family will celebrate together when the little pulang from kindergarten filled with excitement about what she learned that day.

There are many ways mothers can get involved with schools to help. That energy is felt in the emotions that you experienced because of the energy for change can be good for the school and to support your children while they are in class studying to become a good student. There are programs such as Mother in Touch and volunteer organizations for the benefit of libraries, for raising funds for new furniture and equipment to schools and to help teachers buy supplies.

If you have good energy channels that love and care that used to be used only to treat a child towards a good purpose like this, the school will benefit and so will you and your Childs class teacher. So in a way you continue to nurture and care for the baby to look after the environment that made him a better person. And it is a good way for mom to get ready for kindergarten before the child goes to school every day this year and Childs important in your life.

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