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How can gardening help your kids improve their reading and listening skills?
Now that Spring is here get your kids involved in outdoor clean-up and planting activities.
Note: You can incorporate reading lessons and instructions in your everyday duties. When you see the opportunity to read seize it! Promoting literacy while doing your normal activities will get kids more involved instead of making it a chore (since they won’t realize you’re actually making them read or teaching them).
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- Involve them from the beginning. Have them pick the seeds (flowers or vegetables) they would like to plant. Remind them that they can’t plant until they have read the instructions first.
- Let them have their own spot in the garden to dig for worms, catch bugs and prepare the soil.
- Get them their own kid size garden tools to work with you.
- Let them have their own space to plant the seeds they picked. They are to read on how to plant them and how much water is needed, etc. They can be responsible for caring for their part of the garden.
- Create a picture journal marking each step of the journey. Sit with them every day and write, draw and take pictures of what is happening in their garden.
- If the child is smaller and does not know how to read show them either pictures of instructions if available or simply speak out the instructions and have them repeat it back to you. Repetition improves their listening skills.
- Keep some of the seeds they are planting outside and plant them indoors (they are to read the instructions again or repeat the process to you to see if they paid attention) in a clear plastic cup or container so they can see how the roots are formed and experience the miracle of growing something.
- If planting vegetables encourage them to eat their own creations! How cool is that!
- Lastly and most importantly make it family time and have fun gardening whatever your child’s age is. Encourage the love of nature and gardening.
Note: You can incorporate reading lessons and instructions in your everyday duties. When you see the opportunity to read seize it! Promoting literacy while doing your normal activities will get kids more involved instead of making it a chore (since they won’t realize you’re actually making them read or teaching them).
Personalized Kids Books by KD Novelties
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Get Your Child Enthusiastic About Reading
Parents it’s your job not the schools to get your kids to read books that will interest them… Sorry.
Some parents rely on the school system to provide the literacy education that the child needs but in fact it is the parents’ job to find books that will interest your child and get them to read or if they are not able to read yet, YOU can read to them.
This can be as simple as getting books that your child can relate to. For example if they are learning how to ride a bike, get books on bikes. If you’re going on a camping trip, get camping books. Have you made a trip to the zoo lately? Get a Zoo book.
Freedom of choice is a key to getting them motivated and excited. They get to pick out their own books which will motivate them to read. Most children complain that there is no book that they want to read or are interested in. This can solve the problem and there will be “no more excuses.”
Let them read whatever they’d like especially boys. If all they want to read is comics, joke books, pop-ups, let them. Boys have different reading needs than do girls. As long as they are reading they are building their literacy skills. Libraries are the best places for kids to find books that kids will gobble up and most bookstores and book websites offer a large variety of children’s books.
Reality Check: Due to technology gobbling up most of parents’ time, most of us don’t realize that we are failing our kids as role models. The best role models are in the home (parents, siblings, grandparents) and not in the schools. It is important that your kids see you read (books and newspapers) all the time.
Incorporate into your household 20 to 30 minutes of reading either daily or on special days of the week. These 20 or 30 minutes would be considered a drop everything and read (no television, phone, computer, or anything that can be a distraction) that goes for parents too!
When parents read with their children, they are fostering the bonds of healthy interpersonal relationships. The benefits of reading are unequivocally positive.
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Some parents rely on the school system to provide the literacy education that the child needs but in fact it is the parents’ job to find books that will interest your child and get them to read or if they are not able to read yet, YOU can read to them.
This can be as simple as getting books that your child can relate to. For example if they are learning how to ride a bike, get books on bikes. If you’re going on a camping trip, get camping books. Have you made a trip to the zoo lately? Get a Zoo book.
Freedom of choice is a key to getting them motivated and excited. They get to pick out their own books which will motivate them to read. Most children complain that there is no book that they want to read or are interested in. This can solve the problem and there will be “no more excuses.”
Let them read whatever they’d like especially boys. If all they want to read is comics, joke books, pop-ups, let them. Boys have different reading needs than do girls. As long as they are reading they are building their literacy skills. Libraries are the best places for kids to find books that kids will gobble up and most bookstores and book websites offer a large variety of children’s books.
Reality Check: Due to technology gobbling up most of parents’ time, most of us don’t realize that we are failing our kids as role models. The best role models are in the home (parents, siblings, grandparents) and not in the schools. It is important that your kids see you read (books and newspapers) all the time.
Incorporate into your household 20 to 30 minutes of reading either daily or on special days of the week. These 20 or 30 minutes would be considered a drop everything and read (no television, phone, computer, or anything that can be a distraction) that goes for parents too!
When parents read with their children, they are fostering the bonds of healthy interpersonal relationships. The benefits of reading are unequivocally positive.
www.kdnovelties.com
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Reading time made Fun
Did you know that reading to your child on a regular basis can improve their confidence? Now just imagine what reading a book with your child as the star!
All of our books at KD Novelties can be personalized for your child to make a wonderful keepsake you'll appreciate and an awesome reading time that they will love and request to read over and over again.
Your child can star along side their favorite character, lead their team to victory in their favorite sport, or star as a ballerina princess. Whatever your child's interests, we have a fun-filled book to suit them.
Confidence is the key to a happy, healthy child and a bright future; be sure it starts at home with quality reading time. Happy reading!
Your child can star along side their favorite character, lead their team to victory in their favorite sport, or star as a ballerina princess. Whatever your child's interests, we have a fun-filled book to suit them.
Confidence is the key to a happy, healthy child and a bright future; be sure it starts at home with quality reading time. Happy reading!
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Sunny Days
Sesame Street has been a long time parenting staple. Most of us grew up watching Sesame Street and it's become one of those shows that have only grown in popularity. Elmo, Zoe and Oscar are in every toy store, in games and show up everywhere.
We have a great selection of Sesame Street books that can grow with your child and includes all of your child's favorite characters.
There are plenty of fun, creative ways to help your child learn the alphabet and practice counting and how much fun would it be to help Big Bird choose the best artist on Sesame Street?
Reading stories with characters that are familiar to children can aid in the learning process especially that they become the main character in their very own story while promoting literacy.
We also have great personalized book sets, music, songs, and books for your child's milestone to make learning and big changes fun.
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We have a great selection of Sesame Street books that can grow with your child and includes all of your child's favorite characters.
There are plenty of fun, creative ways to help your child learn the alphabet and practice counting and how much fun would it be to help Big Bird choose the best artist on Sesame Street?
Reading stories with characters that are familiar to children can aid in the learning process especially that they become the main character in their very own story while promoting literacy.
We also have great personalized book sets, music, songs, and books for your child's milestone to make learning and big changes fun.
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Autumn Adventures
As the cooler autumn weather sneaks in, what's more perfect than reading some of your child's favorite adventure books
Engage your child and start talking about your past summer and any mini-adventures you may have been on, like the day at the beach swimming in the ocean. Did you do any fishing on the lake picking wild flowers or go on an awesome vacation?
What fun things do you have planned; a fall camping trip? This great camping adventure story would be perfect. Or, have plans to go see the circus coming to town? Going pumpkin picking or climbing trees for apples are all terrific mini-adventures.
Be sure to help your child discover the adventures in your every day, it will make the days much more exciting and their favorite adventure book way more interesting...and there's nothing better than fun reading time!
We have a great selection of adventure books that can be personalizedfor your child and your special adventure.
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