04
Apr 15

10 activities to stimulate language.

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When language development refers, every child is a world. We have already commented on occasion that some children can not compare with others because everyone is different.

I personally do not like talking about concrete to develop skills you determine age because I think that depends on multiple factors.

What is clear is that the language may even affect the development of intelligence. In fact I discussed that topic in the post "How it affects the language to the intelligence of children and how to stimulate". Therefore, taking as a starting point what already said at the time, what today are going to give 10 specific activities to stimulate language.

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31
Sea 15

Do we help enroll 120 children in Senegal?

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Did you know that…? With 2.350 euros, can afford the fees, management fees and school supplies for 120 children can attend school all year!

I was also surprised me when I read this data. But it is not the only thing to do with an amount in the West can be considered insignificant.

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15
Sea 15

Manualia will touch your heart!

Manualia you reach the heart

Last weekend I had the opportunity to be on the Education Week organized by IFEMA.

Besides many ideas and resources that I will gradually sharing with you I met Manualia, a brand that touched my heart.

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20
Dec 14

The benefits of reading.

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Reading is one aspect of education that worries parents today. Surely as a parent you will be worried because there you manage to motivate your children, or because there is no way to practice with them as he has told her teacher. This topic already tried a few months ago in the post Ten activities to promote reading in smaller, but, Do you really know the benefits that reading for kids and not so little ones?

Today Almudena Orellana, author on the blog The Forest of Fantasies, wanted to share with us some of the main advantages of reading.

I leave her!

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05
Oct 14

4 Fall Crafts for learning English.

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photo credit: Joya Z via photopin cc

The fall began just over a week ago and you probably already have observed the first signs of this romantic season.

Today I want to talk to some Crafts we can make with the kids during this time with two clear objectives:

  • Become familiar with the features of this station.
  • To practice English in a fun and funny.

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05
Aug 14

4 tools for kids to learn to program.

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photo credit: Lars Plougmann via photopin cc

The last week We started talking about the importance that some professionals are giving to the fact learn programming from children. We discuss the benefits of this activity and made mention of some studies show that it is possible to start programming even from the 6 years old.

In today's post, let's look at some of the tools most commonly used for this purpose, although not the only.

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07
Jul 14

Future Games. Osmo para iPad.

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Image property of Tangible Play

A few weeks ago, I wrote un post on applications that break barriers between analog and digital. With this article we saw that wanted all games or applications need not create a dependency, or a barrier to the "real world", rather the opposite.

They are becoming more and higher quality, the games intended to create a link between the real and the digital. But what, above all, They have a clear objective, improve skills in a particular area.

This is, from my point of view, the objective of Osmo, iPad accessory that connects what is happening on the device with reality.

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11
May 14

68 Songs to practice English with your child.

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photo credit: Philippe Put via photopin cc

On previous occasions we talked about the importance of play during early childhood education. The game favors the development of the social skills, mental and physical, besides being a natural and spontaneous way of knowing the world for small.

As we saw in the previous post in this topic trying, There are many types of games that we can use for teaching-learning kids, one of these types are the corporal games, that are included in the songs, topic that will be discussed at today's post.

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11
Sea 14

All you need to know to motivate children in their learning.

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The motivation It is a vast subject and has been treated from many perspectives. Many theorists talk about the importance of this learning but there are also those who claim that motivation is not at all representative of the individual learning.

I personally feel that it is extremely important, not only from a theoretical perspective, but from a completely practical perspective, and I have observed firsthand as is the evolution of those motivated students and as is those who are not.

In this post we will see a short summary of the main points related to motivation in young children, the main types of motivation, how can we know through the behavior if we are motivated to children or not and how we can develop motivation.

We start?

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26
Jan 14

Ideas and tips for children to eat better.

There is an issue that teachers may not give too much importance to educational level, but if the parents are concerned, and a lot. The food is a source of constant struggle between parents and children. Many parents ask me desperate advice because your child does not eat alone, because he does not eat certain foods or because they simply do not eat anything.

Obviously, and as you all know, I am not a pediatrician or nutritionist, but I have read a lot about this topic, trying to find ways and tricks for the meal time is not so traumatic, neither for you nor for them.

With this post I intend to help a little bit on this issue and give some guidelines or tricks that superéis in the best way possible.

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