Tag: Literacy

Montessori-Inspired At-Home Activities for momstown’s ‘Under The Sea’ Theme

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As a Montessori teacher, I have a passion for hands-on learning, and believe that every child benefits from Montessori-based activities which focus on learning through the senses. So, the reason for this article is to give moms an opportunity to learn about, and to do some Montessori-inspired activities at home with their preschoolers. The momstown theme for the month of May is ‘Under the Sea’. So, have fun with these sea-markable, themed, do-it-yourself activities – Montessori style!

Lana Kelly
Editor, momstown Guelph

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Free Video Series Helps Parents to Raise Healthy Kids

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New research into child development demonstrates that parents and caregivers can play a critical role in ensuring their child’s individual success in all areas of development. In order for that to happen, we often need extra support, wisdom, and encouragement along the way, so that we can feel confident in our ability to give our child a healthy start and provide early intervention. This is why Dieticians of Canada and Alberta Health Care Services have created a free video series called ‘Raising Our Healthy Kids’.

Lana Kelly
Editor, momstown Guelph

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Why Does My Child Not Like Reading? Strategies for Resistant Readers

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As parents, we are well aware of the benefits of reading. We remember our love for reading, and, it only makes sense that we want our children to share a love of books too. While a good many children do become excited and engaged in reading (especially in the primary grades), some are resistant, and, not to mention, truly disinterested. While a child may not show a natural interest in reading, this does not mean that he cannot become a skilled and even enthusiastic reader. There are a number of things that parents and teachers can do to help engage reluctant readers.

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Contes pour les bouts d’choux – Zig Zag

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This month for our Contes pour les bouts d’choux it was sponsored by Scholastic Canada and we read a hilarious book called La Vieille Dame Oui Avala Zig Zag. It was by the author Tedd Arnold who created the fly guy series.

It starts out with a young boy name Biz and his pet fly Zig Zag. He takes his pet fly with him everywhere even visiting his Grand-mere and by accident poor Grandmere swallows Zig Zag the fly.

It gives a twist to the song there was an old woman who swallowed a fly.

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Mighty Dads is mighty good

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This months Tales for Tots was sponsored by Scholastic and we read a wonderful book just in time for fathers day. It was called Mighty Dads by Joan Holub. If you do not know that name you should, she is the writer behind the Pete the Cat books. I was very excited to see if Mighty Dads would be just as good and it was. The story was all about construction machine dads and their kids.
It had beautifully, coloured illustrations by James Dean.

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Letter E play

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Last month our alphabet play was sponsored by Post Alphabits cereal and we learned all about the letter E.
We thought about some of our favourite words that begin with the letter E.
Excited
Elephant
Egg
Eagle
Everyone

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Shhhh! It’s Tales for Tots

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This month’s Tales for Tots was sponsored by Scholastic and we read a very cute book called Shhh! My Brother’s Napping by Ruth Ohi. (http://www.scholastic.ca/books/view/shh-my-brothers-napping)
This story is about two super cute little mice and one brother has to be very quiet since his little brother is napping and no one wants to wake a sleeping baby. The mouse has to find ways to entertain himself while being quiet which turns out to be quite difficult when all he wants to do is bang pots, build towers, paint his brother and more.

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Alphabet Play: Letter C – Brought to you by Post Alpha-Bits Cereal!

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This month for Alphabet Play we looked at the third letter in the alphabet, the letter C.

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Contes pour les bouts d’choux

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One of our regular monthly programs at momstown Guelph is our French Book Club, Contes pour les bouts d’choux. Like our other book clubs, it is sponsored by Scholastic Canada.

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Baby Basics Book Club

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This week was our Baby Book Club sponsored by Scholastic Canada. We read Hugs by Guelph’s very own Robert Munsch. We thought it would be great if Robert Munsch were reading to us.

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