PreSchool

Do you remember your childhood when the days seemed sunnier and longer? Perhaps now, the smell of pancakes with strawberry jam or a particular flower takes you back to your grandparents’ place. In those memories, your grandparents seem younger and healthier, which was definitely the case – the presence of children makes the elderly more active and reminds them of wonderful days gone by. So, it wasn’t surprising that when a nursery opened in an elderly care home, both age groups saw immense benefits.More info:…

Children in Nigeria who watched the educational TV show "Akili and Me" test their alphabet-recognition skills with UMD researchers, who found that regular watching boosted learning in literacy, shape and color recognition, and more. Credit: Ubongo A University of Maryland study upended by the COVID-19 lockdown in Nigeria made an unexpected discovery: Preschool children who regularly watched educational television programming…

The maker of Monopoly, Play-Doh and Transformer action figures says part of the strategy is to win a bigger share of the preschool market. The maker of Monopoly, Play-Doh and Transformer action figures says part of the strategy is to win a bigger share of the preschool market. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong…

Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Wednesday, May 10. This is reporter Jenny Gold and audience engagement editor Kate Sequeira, the duo heading the Los Angeles Times’ new community funded early childhood education initiative. (We have a lot of great content coming, so stay tuned!)As school draws to a close, California is winding down the first year of what is expected to become the largest universal preschool program in the country. By the 2025-26 school year, all 4-year-olds will be…

The lottery created a natural experiment, allowing the researchers to track the educational outcomes of two otherwise similar groups of students when one group attended preschool while the other did not. In decades of research on preschool programs, this approach has rarely been applied.  The result: among students of similar backgrounds, those who did attend preschool were 8.3 percentage points more likely to enroll in college right after high school. There was also a 5.4-percentage-­point increase in college…

On-site daycare is a rarity in American workplaces, but new government incentives and companies eager to attract and retain talent could soon make that benefit more common.The Biden administration last week outlined a novel proviso in its $53 billion plan to revitalize the U.S. semiconductor industry. Chip makers seeking manufacturing subsidies under the Chips Act are expected to ensure employees have access to affordable, quality child care. It didn’t spell out how companies should provide or pay for the care, but the…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain If you observe people's daily communication and spontaneous speech, you will find an interesting phenomenon. Apart from words, phrases and sentences, human speech contains many pauses, such as "um" and "uh" in English or "呃" and "嗯" in Chinese. Pauses are important indicator of speakers' verbal planning and self-monitoring of speech production. …

In early October 2022 Jane Stadnik, a family resource specialist at the Parent Education & Advocacy Leadership (PEAL) Center in Pittsburgh, Pa., got a frantic call from the mother of a three-year-old boy who was about to be expelled from preschool. The school was tiring of his disruptive behavior, which, it claimed, included throwing blocks, not following directions, refusing to sit at “circle time” and periodically running from the classroom. Stadnik says that this would normally be seen as “typical developmental…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Inhibition, mental set shifting, and memory updating are related to math skills in preschool children. These meta-analytic findings from a research project led by the Luxembourg Center for Educational Testing and the University of Oslo were published in the Psychological Bulletin. Would you follow the…

A pie chart of the distributions between phases and stages of play from the index analysis. Each stage is represented by a color, a line is used to divide epistemic and ludic play phases for clarity. Credit: Learning, Media and Technology (2022). DOI: 10.1080/17439884.2022.2141252 Preschool children's play involving tablets is less creative and imaginative compared to their play involving physical toys. This is shown in a new…