Many families have asked me over the years how they can help their child build strong social skills to help form friendships with their peers. There are many ways that parents can help children learn the skills they need to initiate and build friendships with children during the early childhood years. Research has shown that preschool-aged children who have positive peer relationships are likely to maintain positive peer interactions in elementary school. This is an amazing article that outlines how parents can directly impact their child’s peer interactions and why it is so important to do so at such a young age. Young children’s early experiences build their foundation for everything that will follow in their lives. Click on the picture below to read a fantastic article about encouraging social skills in young children.
We used shapes today to identify our sight words in our new book, Leaves Fall Down. Look for this book to come home Thursday or Friday in your child’s backpack. This will be a great book to pull out during your nightly reading time together! We are reviewing the sight word the and is. We are also working on the word this during reading groups this week.
The preschool and Pre-K families took a ride to the pumpkin patch at Iron’s Fruit Farm yesterday. We trekked through the muddy fields in search of the perfect pumpkin! Some were round, some were tall, some were big and some were small! What did your perfect pumpkin look like?
Creative Tots has specialized in the private education of both toddlers and preschool age children for over 15 years. We began in the heart of Madeira and now also have a new Mason location. We are specifically designed to focus on early childhood development for children ages 18 months to 5 years.
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