Para los Ninos: Taking Time, Taking Turns -- March 31, 2015

Miss Tiffany visited us from the Children's Museum with important information about spending quality time with our kiddos.  She shared several strategies with us:

• Games -- Playing board games together teaches taking turns and cooperative strategies!
• Projects -- A family work project (making gifts, for example) can be satisfying if everyone has a task and takes pride in a job well done.
• Community Service -- Pick a worthy organization in need such as a hospital, retirement home, homeless shelter or neighborhood center and find out how you and your child can serve them.
• Mealtimes -- Eat together without interruption.  Share how your day went!
• Plan a weekend or family trip -- Members of the family offer ideas of what they would like to do and a plan for the whole family comes together.
• Birthday or other celebrations -- Family traditions and rituals are important for bringing families closer.
• Experience your world -- Vary your time together and include experiences that support what your child is learning in school, i.e.: the zoo, the supermarket or the children's museum.

How Will We Get to the Beach? by Brigitte Luciani

Roxanne is headed to the beach with a turtle, an umbrella, a book, a ball and her baby.  But the car won't start and whenever Roxanne comes up with a new way to travel to the beach, she discovers she must leave something behind!

Little Cloud by Eric Carle

A little cloud becomes all sorts of things -- a sheep, an airplane, trees, a clown wearing a hat -- before joining the other clouds and raining!

Miss Tiffany always brings the best crafts!  First we made a collage with contact paper, similar to the collages Eric Carle uses to illustrate his books:

And then we decorated picture frames to give to someone special: