Posts filed under 'Education'
Christmas is Here.
This musical animated tale is a wonderful Christmas Gift and a nice addition to anyone’s Christmas collection. Crisp, clear colors with voices of Ed Asner, Kathy Bates, Madison Davenport, Colin Ford, Jay Leno and Andy Griffith.
More info about it you will find here: http://kidsfirst.org/detail/207326.html
Also you can learn more about Film Festival which has become the largest traveling children’s film festival in the world by collaborating with more than 100 venues nation- and worldwide. The Festival showcases children’s films, TV shows and DVDs from studios, independent and student filmmakers. This year, the Festival will have more than 10,000 screenings of individual films throughout the year. Youth are given a true voice - as curators of the Festival, panelists critiquing films, volunteer staff and as filmmakers and videographers showing their work. Critical to the impact of the Festival is providing educational programs that help children develop critical viewing skills. Once a year, in the fall, awards are given to films in more than 19 categories as well as five “Best of the Best” films at the annual KIDS FIRST! Best Awards Celebration.
Add comment December 5, 2007
Reading problem.
Do you know that thirty-eight percent of all fourth graders in the United States can’t read this simple poem? Certainly millions of children in America can’t be stupid, lazy, or have ADD. Children sitting in the best classrooms in the country struggle with reading. Moms and dads are scratching their heads wondering whether to get a part-time job to pay for tutoring for Jerome or Ashley. What is the cause I don’t know really I’m just sure that in the most cases it depends from us, their parents? Is your child one of them?
May be you have to start to help to your child right now? First of all reading together is great chance both to learn and to understand what the problem of such situation is. Besides there are great number resources in internet you can find which can help both of you on the way.
(the picture you see here is drawn by me)
Add comment November 12, 2007
Helping Your Child Make Friends
All parents want their children to grow up healthy and enjoy life. Creating great social relationships will contribute to that a lot. Child psychologists and teachers at Robin’s Nest – Maryland pre-school care center know for a fact that making friends is not an easy task, but it will help children develop good self-esteem and can be just plain fun! Every child wants to socialize take part in fun with others, but for some children it can be more difficult than others. How can parents help?
- Talk with your child about how to socialize and make friends. Not all children instinctively know how to approach and mix with other children. Discuss possible first steps your child can take. For example, you might encourage your child to smile at one new child a day or you might encourage your child to make a compliment and ask a question of someone each day. Regularly discuss your child’s socialization experiences. Find out who he or she was able to meet.
- Get your child involved in after-school activities. Contact your local library, scout groups, YMCA, children choir, church youth group, 4-H clubs, and community parks to learn about activities just for kids. Knowing this information, talk to your child to find out which activities seem most appealing. Let your child select the activities that he or she wants to take part in.
- Get out of the way. Some parents unintentionally get in the way by excessively worrying about their children. This might discourage both your child and his/her potential friend. If you refuse to let your child have “alone time” with peers because you are worried about his or her personal safety, your child will not have an easy time with his or her same age group. Find a safe well-supervised place for your child like this Maryland day care center, and then allow your child to get along in that place without your guidance. Ensure that your child knows that you are always there when needed but encourage your child to learn as well, on their own.
- Role play. If your child is timid, pretend to be another kid and encourage your child to “meet” you. Discuss beforehand what your child could say and then role play together. Then, switch roles. You be your child and have your child be another child who is approached by the “new kid.” Role playing makes your child clearer about what he or she should say in order to trigger a positive response and makes him / her more confident about possible results.
1 comment November 2, 2007
Quality Preschool Would Help California’s Reading Crisis
Fully 2/3 of California 3rd graders cannot read proficiently according to the CDE, and this leaves them playing catchup for most of their school years. And not only do their grades suffer, they’re also more likely to drop out, do drugs, or go to jail. One of the often cited solutions to this problem is increasing the availability of quality Preschool, and Plan 4 Preschool is a new organization aimed at making this happen.
Preschool advocacy groups and pre-k teachers stand behind high-quality preschool as the way to make sure California’s children start school on an equal footing. In fact, several steps have been taken in this direction, like the Los Angeles Universal Preschool system and the Preschool for All ballot initiative. Plan4 Preschool is the latest step in this effort, bringing together the preschool advocacy and preschool planning community in order to focus and accelerate their efforts.
Funded by the Packard Foundation, P4P also aggregates a large library of preschool planning documents, county plans, and early education research so that the community can build on each other’s efforts.
Add comment October 30, 2007
Leonardo Da Vinci online.
Do you know that now if you want to look at Leonardo Da Vinci’s masterpiece The Last Supper or to show it to your kids you dont need to get Milan. Because henceforth everyone has got great chance to see the work of a genius online. The new high resolution image allows viewers to see the finer details of the wall-painting. At 16 billion pixels, the image is 1,600 times stronger than those produced by a typical 10 million pixel digital camera. “You can see how Leonardo made the cups transparent, something you can’t ordinarily see,” said curator Alberto Artioli. “You can also note the state of degradation the painting is in.” Besides allowing experts and art-lovers to study the masterpiece from home, Artioli said the project provides an historical document of how the painting appears in 2007, which will be valuable to future generations of art historians.
Although there appeared to be problems with the Web site late Saturday, it was accessible earlier in day.
The work, in Milan’s Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie, was restored in a painstaking effort that wrapped up in 1999 — a project aimed at reversing half a millennium of damage to the famed artwork. Leonard painted the “Last Supper” dry, so the painting did not cleave to the surface in the fresco style, meaning it is more delicate and subject to wear.
“Over the years it has been subjected to bombardments; it was used as a stall by Napoleon,” Artioli said. The restoration removed 500 years of dirt while also removing previous restoration works that masked Leonardo’s own work.
Even those who get to Milan have a hard time gaining admission to see the “Last Supper.” Visits have been made more difficult by measures to protect it. Twenty-five visitors are admitted every 15 minutes to see the painting for a total of about 320,000 visitors a year. Visitors must pass through a filtration system to help reduce the work’s exposure to dust and pollutants.
“The demand is three or four times higher, but we can’t accommodate it because of efforts to preserve the painting,” Artioli said.
So see it on the Net now: http://www.haltadefinizione.com
Add comment October 28, 2007
Start to read together.
All parents know how a reading is deemed necessary for almost every aspect of life. So it’s no wonder that they want their children to be good readers as soon as possible.
During early childhood, kids are first exposed to language through listening and speaking. This starts as babies look at parents who are speaking, and it continues as kids learn to use sounds and gestures to communicate their wants and needs. Typically, at the age between 1 and 1.5 y.o. they use words to label objects and ask for things. By 3 years, most children are speaking in sentences and able to follow basic rules of grammar (for example, plurals and verb tenses).
During these early years, you have to start to learn you kids to read and to write, primarily through their interaction with books. That said, make sure to starting reading to your child early and often — it will encourage an interest, and it’s a really lovely way to spend time together. When you help their children learn to read, you help them open the door to a new world.
Add comment October 14, 2007
Education is the best investment.
While your kid is teen you are thinking about college, kid is college student you are thinking about grad school, or an adult attending college or returning to college, anytime you think about their future, you try to help them to chose right way in the life. Also we don’t set aside in home tutoring, rather! Because we know exactly there is no another way than education to bring our children a better life and success in the future. An education is an extraordinarily profitable investment. Every dollar spent on a young man’s education produces $34.85 in increased lifetime income. Any Wall Street stockbroker would envy that kind of investment yield — especially these days.
Ans it’s no wonder that US President Bush and Education Secretary Margaret Spellings met with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Chancellor of Education Joel Klein to discuss how No Child Left Behind (NCLB) is producing positive results for students across the country and record high scores for minority students. Yesterday, the latest results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), or Nation’s Report Card, were released. The Report Card shows record results for our Nation’s students in reading and math. Scores are improving and achievement gaps are beginning to close.
• Chancellor Klein is strongly supportive of NCLB, calling it “one of the great bipartisan compromises in education” and praising its “focus on accountability.” With the support of Mayor Bloomberg, he’s made tough decisions that are getting great results in closing the achievement gap and raising achievement for New York City students.
• As the positive results from our Nation’s Report Card show, children can learn when standards are set high and results are measured.
• The President calls on Congress to reauthorize NCLB and give our teachers, parents, and children the educational tools they need. Now is not the time to water down standards, or roll back accountability and options for parents.
Add comment October 2, 2007
