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Get Moving with Ella Jenkins: Musical play for little ones

In this lively CD, Ella Jenkins, “The First Lady of Children’s Music,” performs 15 children’s songs that incorporate music, movement, and play. Get Moving with Ella Jenkins is drawn from some of the finest recordings created during Ella’s legendary career as a music educator and children’s entertainer. It includes such classic tunes as “Head [...]

Look Around — School Readiness Is Everywhere!

By Remy Agee

Ah, September…

…and thoughts of a new school year, long after our children have families. Scientific evidence shows workbooks and flashcards aren’t the key to school readiness. Rather, there’s a clear connection between early learning experiences — the foundation for intellectual, social, emotional and physical development — and school success. Your [...]

Sensational Summer Adventures

…Right in your own community!

By Remy Agee

 

Remy Agee

Your house or theirs, it’s time for summer fun and adventures.

School readiness skills and experiences involving vocabulary, communication, problem solving, sequencing, planning and organization are critical for toddlers and preschoolers. These are also important for older grandkids to improve during the summer [...]

Cooking Up Fun

Remy Agee

1 kitchen + 1 grand + 1 grandchild (or more!) = a delicious recipe for learning

Warm weather, longer daylight hours, end of the school year, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day — these are all ingredients for cooking up some great fun with your grandkids. I mean, literally, cooking!

When children cook, they’re [...]

Wide-Eyed & Full of Wonder

Remy Agee

It’s almost spring. Soon nature will be alive again! Perfect time to recapture your own child-like sense of wonder and nurture it in your grandchildren! Inspire them to want to know more, explore more, experience more, and be “wowed” by learning through discovery and hands-on activities that abound this time of [...]

Imagine That! (The Engine of Ideas)

Imagine That!

Imagination is the engine of ideas

“Imagination is more important than knowledge” — Albert Einstein

We just got back from a trip to the moon! What an adventure! Our space shuttle “shook” as it launched. We felt the rocket boosters separate. And my grandson and I “bounced” on the moon’s surface, collecting moon [...]