Showing posts with label vocabulary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vocabulary. Show all posts

Monday, June 4, 2012

The Importance of Words

"Mama, my throat hurts," my two-year old niece said.

And my sister knew it was time to rush to the emergency room.

It turns out that an allergy (to cashews? we'll find out after tests...)
has the ability to make this little girl stop breathing...
Anaphylactic shock

How does Auntie Tat deal with the situation?
Biblio-therapy ... This book is actually simple and clear enough to work for the littlest ones:


All this to say ... how important it is for little ones to be able to communicate ... how important to share words with little ones...

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Saturday, September 24, 2011

Child Development Reminders

Copied from http://connect.ala.org/files/ABCs%20of%20Early%20Literacy.pdf

In professional families --2,153 words per hour…11 million
In working class families --1,251 words per hour …6 million
In welfare families heard an average of 616 words per hour…3 million

•By kindergarten, a child from a welfare family could have heard 32 million words fewer than a classmate from a professional family.

•By age three, cumulative vocabulary for children:
professional families 1,100 words.
working class families750 words
welfare families it was just above 500 words.

•Children in professional families heard a higher ratio of encouragements to discouragements than their working class and welfare counterparts.

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Gotta Move: Everybody's Jumping (Vocabulary)

Again, I put an activity on the back of the handout.  It is a "finish the drawing" activity that has a picture of a dog, and the prompt says, "What is Andy doing? Draw his surroundings." 

The "Find the Letter" ball is one I picked up at Dollar General.  It has alphabet letters and first sound icons (e.g. the letter D is pictured with a dog) printed all over the surface, in no particular order.



As always, if the embedded image does not load, you can find the pdf under "Youth Services Programs and Resources" --> "Music, Movement, and Early Literacy Programs" at http://librarieslearnlead.blogspot.com/ .

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Babies: Motions Have Meaning

The embedded PDF below is available for download by clicking on "Baby Programs" under the "Youth Services Programs and Resources" heading in the upper right hand corner of this blog: http://librarieslearnlead.blogspot.com/



On the back of this handout, I printed the first page of Zero To Three: Playing with Babies: http://www.zerotothree.org/child-development/play/playing-with-babies.html

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Toddlers: Lambs, Sheep, Cubs, and Lions (Vocabulary)

If the embedded programming handout does not display below, visit the upper right hand corner of this blog: http://librarieslearnlead.blogspot.com/. Under "Youth Services Programs and Resources," choose "Toddler, ages 2 and 3." Then choose "(2011 3) Lambs, Sheep, Cubs, and Lions (Vocabulary)."

 

Below are some graphics I put on display and used for the introduction of the program ... and some "new" words!  (They are available in the "Graphics" folder.) 

Monday, March 7, 2011

Gotta Move: Circus Theme (Vocabulary)

If the embedded image below does not display, visit the upper right hand corner of this blog. Under "Youth Services Programs and Resources," choose "Music, Movement, (and Early Literacy!) Programs." Then choose "(2011 3) Circus Theme (Letter Cc)."