Make trips a way to encourage reading by reading aloud traffic signs, billboards, notices. Show your children how to read a map, and once you are on the road, let them take turns being the navigator. Encourage children to keep a summer scrapbook. Tape in souvenirs of your family's summer activities picture postcards, ticket stubs, photos. Have your children write the captions and read them aloud as you look at the book together.
Every preschool teacher knows that singing can organize a chaotic roomful of children.
They don't have boundaries as we know them. Music organizes time into small chunks through rhythm and beat, and it develops the ability to anticipate. Ruth Smith , Independent Ed. Usborne Publishing Ltd. Usborne Publishing Ltd. has no connection with these pages and does not sponsor or support their content. All rights reserved.