by Babs Hadjusiewicz
January 26, 2016
A WOW! word is a word you'll say constantly this week to help your newborn, infant, or toddler hear the word and its forms. You are modeling words your child stores up and practices silently until able to say them aloud just like you do!
- Your likeness to your doll is amazing!
- An oval has some likeness to a circle.
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by Babs Hadjusiewicz
January 21, 2016
Why whisper when you’re reading aloud to your child today?
Use your whispering voice to read every other page of a picture book or board book. Your child will enjoy hearing and mimicking your performance. But much more is going on here.
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by Babs Hadjusiewicz
January 20, 2016
Let’s play The Verbs Game™ with your child of any age today. This talking game is a good way to build your child’s oral language or storehouse of vocabulary and knowledge. You can even talk this activity with an infant. And it’s another free activity you can do with your child anywhere you are. Here’s how:
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by Babs Hadjusiewicz
January 19, 2016
- Look how the tree’s shade has sheltered us from the sun.
- It looks like the cat found shelter there.
- I’ll shelter your body so you stay warm.
- Which sweater will shelter you from the cold?
- Why do newspapers shelter us from the cold?
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by Babs Hadjusiewicz
January 04, 2016
Wanna learn how to spin straw into gold? Let’s say this particular handful of straw is a board book, like SO BIG!
Once you’ve repeatedly read and sung this book, your child and you know every animal’s name and its relative size by heart. ‘Tis time to begin the spinning!
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by Babs Hadjusiewicz
January 03, 2016
I’m all ears when I hear an adult explaining how a little one can’t really read but thinks he can. “He just knows the story,” the adult says. And I say, “Yay! Yay! Yay!” This adult has done one of the most important jobs a parent does . . . reading the same book again and again until the child knows the story.
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by Babs Hadjusiewicz
December 17, 2015
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December 15, 2015
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December 14, 2015
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December 10, 2015
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December 08, 2015
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December 06, 2015
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December 02, 2015
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December 01, 2015
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November 30, 2015
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November 24, 2015
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November 23, 2015
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November 19, 2015
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November 17, 2015
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November 16, 2015
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November 12, 2015
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November 10, 2015
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November 09, 2015
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November 09, 2015
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