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Summer Challenge #10: Explore a Children’s Museum
To beat the heat of the dog days of summer, the challenge this week is to explore a Children’s Museum. Children’s Museums provide rich environments that stimulate a child’s natural…
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Summer Challenge #9: Visit a U-Pick Farm
This week the challenge is to locate and visit a u-pick farm in your area. A u-pick farm is a wonderful opportunity to develop language in a natural setting. You…
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Make Your Own Story Trail
Setting up your own Story Trail in your backyard is a funny and easy way to get moving and promote literacy. A Story Trail is a way for families to…
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Using Basic Language Concepts with Goldfish Swim School
My daughter had very few words when we first began swimming with Goldfish Swim School. Her vocabulary consisted of the few words that all babies start out with (mama, dada,…
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Summer Challenge #8: Take a Walk on a Story Trail
This week the challenge is to locate and take a walk on a Story Trail in your community (or make your own). A Story Trail is when pages from a…
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Summer Challenge #7: Engage the Senses at the Farmers Market
This week the challenge is to check out a local farmers market and engage your senses while you are there. Children experience their world through their senses: smell, sight, hear,…
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Summer Challenge #6: Explore an Open Space
This week the summer challenge is to explore an open space in your city. An open space is any open piece of land that has no buildings or other built…
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Summer Challenge #5: Explore your own backyard
It’s the heart of summer and the 4th of July is fast approaching. There are generally a lot of neighborhood and family get togethers planned this week, so the challenge…
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A Visit to Slate Run Living Historical Farm
Slate Run Living Historical Farm provides the opportunity to experience first-hand what farm life would be like on an Ohio farm in the 1880s. An old farmhouse, barn, and gardens,…
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Take a Taste Tuesday with Dayana
My name is Dayana. I married my best friend and am a mom of three cuties ages 6 (soon to be 7), 5 and 1. They sure keep me on…