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Researchers from Japan and the UK examined existing experimental evidence regarding the impact of music training on children's non-music cognitive skills and academic achievement. They found that music training appeared to be ineffective at enhancing cognitive or academic skills, regardless of the type of skill, participants' age, and duration of music training. According to these experts, the common idea that 'music makes children smarter' is incorrect...Read more here.
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A recent Cornell study shows that some sound combinations, like those in the word "virus," elicit more emotionally intense responses than others. This may play a role in both children's language acquisition and how we might have evolved language in the first place...Read more here.
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New findings published recently show that the brain responses of 10-month-old babies could predict whether they would enjoy watching fast-paced TV shows six months later. The British research team says that the findings are important for the ongoing debate around early TV exposure. The sensory environment surrounding babies and young children is really complex and cluttered, but the ability to pay attention to something is one of the first developmental milestones in babies...Read more here.
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The practice of “redshirting” kids, giving them an extra year before starting kindergarten, thereby making them one of the oldest in their grade as opposed to the youngest, has risen in popularity, especially in light of schools adopting distance learning models for the start of the 2020-21 school year. But is it a good idea? Look at some studies and read the opinion of some experts on this...Read more here.
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Despite decades of positive messaging to encourage women and girls to pursue education tracks and careers in STEM, women continue to fall far below their male counterparts in these fields. A new study at Carnegie Mellon University examined 25 languages to explore the gender stereotypes in language that undermine efforts to support equality across STEM career paths...Read the results here.
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Despite all the advances in medicine and exercising, today’s U.S. children are not as healthy as previous generations. A new study by the American Heart Association not only backs up that claim but reveals a shocking number of kids are in poor health. Researchers say nearly 60 percent of children in the U.S. don’t have healthy cardiorespiratory fitness. This puts them at significant risk for serious health conditions like heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and high blood pressure...Read more here.
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With the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. food banks had difficulty keeping up with demand as millions of families struggled to afford food. California launched High Road Kitchens to address the idle status of restaurants and the tremendous need for food relief at the same time. Using grants and subsidies, High Road Kitchens incentivizes independent restaurants to reactivate their businesses as meal providers for hunger relief and is making better-quality jobs in the restaurant industry more appealing to owners and more realistic for service workers...Read more here. |
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You can turn snack time into a game with this edible checkers game. It’s fun to make, fun to play, and even more fun to eat! Read more here.
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This alphabet sensory bag is a fun sensory and learning activity for kids. If you are teaching the alphabet or want to teach lowercase and uppercase letters, this simple activity set-up is perfect for pre-k or kindergarten! Read more here.
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This paper bag scarecrow is a cute fall craft for the kids. Make several to display around the classroom...Read more here.
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We can help kids practice and develop early writing skills by tracking the zig zag lines in this worksheet. With a fun back to school theme, kids are asked to trace the lines to help the kids get to their school supplies...Read more here. |
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This dragon theme set of fun worksheets is great for children who love dragons. It includes activity pages for preschool and kindergarten ages such as a tracing puzzle, a maze and a dragon coloring page...Read more here.
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This kids writing game with sand and seashells is sure to be a big hit You can make a sight word game with shells from your adventures last summer. For this game kids gather some sand and shells to create a writing game. It’s perfect for practicing sight words...Read more here. |
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This Mini Photo Accordion Book – origami photo album is based on a super simple Origami Photo Frame that has one additional step. You can make this origami folding photo album out of plain paper, pretty paper, colorful paper... any which way you want...Read more here. |
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We can use leaves from the trees in the garden or the park to create a great looking peacock. It is a simple, yet cute, project…Read more here. |
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FROM THE BOOK: "THE CLUB FOR CHILDREN WHO CARE FOR THEIR PLANET" - SECTION: THE ANIMALS
TITLE: DON´T GO AWAY!
WE WORK ON: PROTECTION, RESPECT & HELP
ACTIVITY: The teacher will talk to the children about dinosaurs and explain that a lot of animals can also disappear if we don't respect our planet. If these animals disappear it will be because of the human beings and the teacher will explain what happens then: the trees, the plants and the animals that live in these habitats become extinct, because their houses and their food disappear too. The group will then think about some things they can do to protect the animals...To view the full activity, click here. |
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AlphaTots is an excellent tool for helping children learn the alphabet. Filled with creative and clever interactive activities, the app reinforces letters with interactive elements that are fun to do (such as assembling a building for the letter B or cutting strings for the letter C). Letters are sounded out and the app is easy for kids of virtually all ages to navigate...Read more here. |
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Another Monster at the End of This Book...Starring Grover & Elmo! is a sequel (in both its app and book forms) to the Sesame Street classic, The Monster at the End of This Book. In that first story, Grover begged readers not to turn pages, so as to stay away from the monster at the end -- which turned out to be him. In this follow-up, Grover goes through the same problem, but this time with Elmo taking the opposite stance and goading kids to keep turning pages...Read more here. |
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