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Baby’s First Words

September 19, 2015Babychristy cook

Baby’s First Words

When will your baby’s cooing turn into your baby’s first words? Around 8 months, your baby will start to imitate sounds and you may experience your baby’s first words! According to Parenting Magazine, by 11 to 14 months, your baby’s tongue and lips will gain dexterity and the brain starts to match up objects with names. The first dozen words will refer to you and other favorite people, favorite toys or other objects, and favorite foods. Your baby’s first words will consist almost entirely of common nouns and proper nouns: ‘Mama’, ‘Dada’, ‘sock’, ‘shoe’, ‘ball’, ‘spoon’, ‘cup’ or ‘car’

Interestingly, Livescience says the reason your baby’s first words are usually ‘mama’ or ‘dada’ is because their brain responds better to words with repeating syllables. Keep this in mind when encouraging your baby’s first words!

Here are 5 easy tips to encourage your baby’s first words

Read Together: Reading is important for so many reasons. Not only will it create a life- long love of books but it will allow your baby to watch your mouth movements and encourage vocabulary.
Talk a Lot: Providing a running commentary while performing daily activities such as dressing, bathing, feeding is essential for building first words.
Animal Sounds: The cow says “moo” and the dog says “woof”! When you make animal sounds, encourage your baby to watch your mouth closely as you make the sound. Your baby will eventually mimic and imitate your mouth’s movements.
Sing: Babies love music and especially songs with rhyming and silly noises. Singing will introduce a broad range of sounds for your baby to imitate.
Name Everything: Be sure that everything you pick up is named. “Here is your spoon” ”Let’s put on your socks” Naming items will build vocabulary and encourage your baby’s first words.

Teach My Baby First Words introduces your baby to the most common first twelve words in the English language. Just 10-20 minutes a day with the award winning Teach My Baby tools and your baby can master their first words! Use the coordinated book and one-piece puzzles together to encourage repetition, interaction and fun, educational play. The set has everything you need to give your baby’s literacy skills a head start!

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Math Activities For Preschoolers

September 12, 2015Preschoolerchristy cook

Math Activities For Preschoolers

According to Susan Levine, math development expert, by incorporating math activities for preschoolers into everyday life, children can develop math excellence. Here are 5 ways to create a math wiz with simple math activities for preschoolers:

Talk Numbers: Counting can become part of most discussions by simple asking ‘How Many?” Count buttons, crackers, vegetables, raisins and more.

Spatial relations: Spatial thinking is important in math activities for preschoolers. Talk to your preschooler about length, height and shapes. With shapes, talk about sides, edges and curves. For height, simple questions about siblings or friends will do the trick – “Who is taller, you or your brother?”

Use Your Hands: Use hand gestures to promote numerical and spatial skills. It is important to point, while counting. This will help your preschooler associate a number with each object.

Puzzle Play: Playing with blocks and puzzles will help develop children’s spatial thinking and math skills. According to The Children’s Development Institute, children learn to work directly with their environment and change its shape and appearance when they work with puzzles. Puzzels are great for hand-eye coordination, fine motor skills and memory.

Board Games: Play numerical board games where you roll a die or spin a spinner. When you move your piece a certain number of spaces along a path, be certain to count all the way along!

Teach My Preschooler Math offers a head start in adding and subtracting from 0-5 and plenty of math activities for preschoolers. Just 20 minutes a day with the award winning Teach My Preschooler tools and your little one can master math for preschoolers. Use the flip book, poster, foam counters and foam numbers together to master early math skills and enjoy fun, educational play. The set has everything to give a head start!

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Learning Games For Toddlers

September 4, 2015Toddlerchristy cook

Learning Games For Toddler

There are several learning games for toddlers that will encourage fine motor skills and brain development. According to Babycenter, a combination of structured learning games for toddlers and free form play is the best balance. Make these simple exercises part of your daily routine and they can be considered learning games for toddlers!

Filling Up and Dumping Out: Perfect activity for bath time! Plastics cups work well.
Dressing and Undressing: Great learning games for toddlers –find clothes with buttons and zippers!
Drawing and Scribbling: Don’t expect a work of art but holding a crayon or pencil encourages fine motor skills.
Stacking and Sorting: Building blocks make a perfect learning activity for toddlers. Introduce counting to improve early math.
Poking and Pinching: Toddlers love to be tactile – just no pinching baby brother or sister!

With these simple learning games for toddlers, you can watch your toddler’s fine motor skills and brain development mprove quickly. If you are looking for structured learning games for toddlers, take a look at the award winning Teach My Toddler Learning Kit. Teach My Toddler is an all-in-one learning kit for toddlers 18 months+. Requiring no screens, the kit has everything to give your toddler a head start and teach the basics. Teach My Toddler is divided into four sections; The Alphabet, Numbers to 10, Shapes and Colours. The teaching tools are fully coordinated to encourage repetition and interaction. Teach My Toddler is designed around the concept of matching, which is a key pre-reading skill.