Book Review: Frederick Past Times Leo Lionni

This majority is an adorable even out virtually a poet mouse who uses his words to warm his friends during the wintertime months.  The writer uses expressive words to pull the even out in addition to beautiful collage artwork throughout. This majority too won a Caldecott Honor honor in addition to the Times Best Illustrated Book award.  

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After reading the majority verbalize to your children virtually run in addition to the value of work.  Was what Frederick did considered work?  Did he contribute to his community?  Do all members of a community convey to contribute equally?  

As an action convey children practice their ain collages using cutting upward pieces of structure newspaper glued to bill of fare stock.  

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Playgroup Activity: Butterfly Snack Packs

Buy or as well as then of your child's favorite snacks as well as brand these cute butterfly snack packs. This is a fun as well as slowly action to produce amongst a play grouping as well as everyone gets to accept 1 abode amongst them! You could likewise brand these amongst fruits as well as vegetables for a healthier option. Just shop them inwards your refrigerator as well as they'll survive create to become when y'all are. 

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What you'll need:

Snack size Ziploc bags

Clothes pins

Craft paint

Pipe cleaners and/or Googly eyes 

Snacks/Fruits/Veggies

Sharpie pen

Place or as well as then snacks within the zero lock handbag as well as unopen it up. Filling it almost one-half agency sum volition let room for the wearing clothing pin. Paint the wearing clothing pins or y'all tin purchase or as well as then that are already colored. Attach the googly eyes to the wearing clothing pivot as well as purpose the sharpie to write your child's cite or a cute niggling note. You could fifty-fifty cite each butterfly. Pinch the handbag inwards the middle as well as attach the wearing clothing pin. Bend a piping cleaner into the sort of some antennas and pinch it betwixt the rattling tip of the wearing clothing pin. Now y'all cause got a snack you're kids can't expect to eat! Be certain to relieve the wearing clothing pins as well as then y'all tin re-use them later!

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Mommy Apps

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About five years agone I was driving inward southern California alongside my cousin in addition to unopen friend. We were on the I-5 I believe in addition to our gas tank was empty; to the betoken that nosotros see nosotros mightiness travel pushing our rental machine dorsum to the hotel. We could non uncovering a motorway travel out alongside a gas station nearby to relieve our lives. Here inward Utah yous tin run across gas stations from anywhere equally yous effort the I-15 thence this was bizarre for us! We decided to line off, effort for a chip in addition to and thence inquire somebody if nosotros became that desperate. We became desperate. We pulled into around drive-in fast food restaurant, rolled downward the windows in addition to yelled to the seemingly frightening boys at the table. "Hey create yous know where the nearest gas station is?" They all turned in addition to looked at us equally if nosotros were from around other planet or at to the lowest degree around other decade in addition to said, "don't yous direct hold an app for that?" We even thence had flip phones at this fourth dimension in addition to were quite caught off guard. We had no see what an app fifty-fifty looked similar at this point. Needless to country they were of no assist in addition to nosotros drove off feeling lost inward the technology scientific discipline world. The betoken of my story?

#1: THERE IS AN APP FOR EVERYTHING!
#2: Flip phones are patently out of style.
#3: If yous direct hold a smart telephone in addition to a baby, kids or you're meaning this is for you!

APPS for Mommies:

Apps

• LactMed-is a database of drugs in addition to dietary supplements that may comport upon breastfeeding. It includes information on the levels of such substances inward thorax milk in addition to infant blood, in addition to possible adverse effects inward the nursing infant. Suggested therapeutic alternatives to those drugs are provided, where appropriate. 

• iBreastfeed- iBreastfeed provides tools in addition to resources to assist yous successfully breastfeed!
  - Get information on the benefits of breastmilk, breastfeeding in addition to breastpumping tips, breastmilk storage guidelines in addition to 2nd access to other online resources.

• Baby Feeding Log-Quickly log babe feedings, slumber in addition to diaper changes. Easily run across the final feeding fourth dimension in addition to what side was used.

• Speedy Tot-Easy to purpose app to uncovering changing stations,feeding spots in addition to highchairs.

• Pump@work-pump@work simplifies the features yous dearest nigh spreadsheets in addition to manus written pumping logs inward a chic, digital format for the busy mom heading dorsum to work. pump@work is a stress-reducing solution to pumping, storing in addition to providing simply the correct amount of milk for your infant each day.

• My Cycles-Get the best menstruum in addition to ovulation tracker now! My Cycles takes all the guesswork out of tracking your menstruum in addition to predicting your ovulation window. Trying to conceive? Want to know when to await your side yesteryear side period? This menstruum calendar app is for you! 

• ipregnancy- iPregnancy is THE PREMIER APPLICATION for keeping rails of your pregnancy! Others direct hold tried to duplicate the features constitute inward this program, but this is the exclusively pregnancy app genuinely written yesteryear a practicing Ob/Gyn!

• Parenting Ages & Stages-With parenting guides from newborn through schoolhouse years, the Ages & Stages app provides the most targeted information on little evolution in addition to parenting milestones. 

Touch: A Medicine For Healing Together With Growth

"Huddled inward his clear Plexiglas incubator at Miami's Jackson Memorial Medical Center, 11-day-old Brandan ...seems equally inaccessible equally Snow White inward her drinking glass coffin. Born 8 weeks premature, now weighing four pounds, Brandan must alive inward this artificially warmed surroundings because his ain underdeveloped organization tin non even then regulate his trunk temperature.
Brandans's woman bring upwards watches equally Maria Hernandez-Reif of the University of Miami's Touch Research Institute (TRI), reaches through the incubator's portholes in addition to begins to massage the baby. Her paw is larger than Brandan's entire back; equally her fingers deed inward theater downward strokes, the baby's translucent peel looks equally if it mightiness tear equally easily equally tissue paper...Far from injuring the infant, the massage may endure essential to his development, for newborns are meant to endure touched."

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In America, our social club almost fears touch. We worry that impact volition endure seen equally abuse or that nosotros are beingness "too touchy". In essence we are touchy close touch. "Tiffany Field, a TRI researcher establish that French parents in addition to children impact each other iii times to a greater extent than oftentimes than American parents in addition to children. She worries that American aren't getting plenty touch, peculiarly amongst the growing concerns close sexual harassment in addition to abuse inward schools in addition to workplaces."

-From the LIFE George Howe Colt

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The reality is that impact is an of import tool in addition to fifty-fifty a "medicine" for the evolution in addition to increment of your baby. Preemies peculiarly produce goodness from massage in addition to touch. They gain weight faster, sleep longer, they spend less fourth dimension inward intensive aid units and by in addition to large need less assistance amongst breathing. For other infants including preemies, impact is a calming aid for mom in addition to baby in addition to gets dad involved too. Mom's stress score is decreased and lower levels of depression were seen inward mom's that produce this. Brain evolution is also facilitated inward the babe in addition to mom's are ameliorate able to respect her babies cues. 

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Book Review: The Current Of Air Blew Past Times Pat Hutchins

Last calendar week at our monthly Ready to Learn class nosotros talked well-nigh the edifice blocks of emergent literacy. These edifice blocks include listening, talking, writing, decoding in addition to comprehension. Part of learning comprehension is sequencing. This includes questions like, what came first? What came later in addition to what tin y'all human face next? Watch this video to sympathise to a greater extent than on how to assist your tiddler construct their literacy skills. To receive information in addition to an evite to our Ready to Learn bird electronic mail us at baby1@unitedwayuc.org

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The Wind Blew is a must detect inward your local library. Not alone are the illustrations beautiful only this storey helps your tiddler learn sequencing. After reading this mass impress the action page below. Cut out the next items, color them in addition to thence role a newspaper clip to attach them to a slice of yarn or string. Have your tiddler house them inward the social club they appeared inward the story.

Activity Page

Playgroup Activity: Tracing Amongst Yarn

Here's a fun action to attention your nipper leave of absence excited almost writing. It's also a non bad practicing tool.

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What you'll need:

                 Sandpaper                                   Crayons                                                  Yarn

Cut the yarn into several pieces of unlike lengths. Then depict simply about shapes as well as letters on a slice of sand newspaper amongst crayon. You tin forcefulness out normally abide by sandpaper sheets at your local hardware shop but crusade the dollar shop first. They'll belike convey it for cheap. The yarn pieces volition genuinely stick to the sand newspaper equally your nipper traces the letters as well as shapes. Who knew? This is a non bad action to create inwards a playgroup as well as is genuinely easy.

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Resource Spotlight: Insurekidsnow.Gov

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"Children instruct sick in addition to thence fast...One 2d they are playing energetically; the side past times side 2d they're cranky in addition to disorganized. Suddenly, they stagger or prevarication down. Their eyes glaze over in addition to their color changes to either a violent cherry-red or a chalk white. Their breathing charge per unit of measurement doubles, in addition to they appear to be gasping for breath. Small children whimper inconsolably or won't yell at all. They can't tell you lot whats wrong. They obviously experience awful. Their collapse is all the to a greater extent than precipitous inward that acre they are playing, they resist giving up. When they lastly do, they are in addition to thence sad [but in addition to thence cute]. All simply the close experienced parents volition experience a painful surge of anxiety."- doctor T. Berry Brazelton M.D.

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InsureKidsNow.gov tin provide a flake of relief from the anxiety parents experience when they accept a sick child. Their website has data on how to apply for Medicaid or CHIP (Children's Health Insurance Program) hither inward Utah too every bit other states. These insurances are affordable in addition to tin assist pay for your child's Well-Child visits, emergencies, prescriptions in addition to more.

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Medicaid in addition to CHIP typically encompass a attain of benefits including:

Doctor Visits Emergency Care Hospital Care Vaccinations

Prescription Drugs Vision Hearing Dental

Sun Safety

Just ane blistering sunburn inward childhood to a greater extent than than doubles a person’s chances of developing melanoma subsequently inward life. According to ane U.S. study, 54% of children instruct sunburned or tanned inward their 2d summer, versus 22% inward their first. Many parents don’t know the best ways to protect their immature children together with amongst summertime on it’s way, idea it was best to suggest on Sun safety. The Skin Cancer Foundation together with the FDA recommends the next Sun security tips for infants together with babies.

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Infants: 0-6 months

Infants nether vi months of historic menses should move kept out of the sun. Their pare is likewise sensitive for sunscreen. Sunscreens are recommended for children together with adults. What makes babies together with thence different? For ane thing, babies' pare is much thinner than that of adults, together with it absorbs the active, chemic ingredients inward sunscreen to a greater extent than easily. For another, infants convey a high surface-area to body-weight ratio compared to older children together with adults. Both these factors hateful that an infant's exposure to the chemicals inward sunscreens is much greater, increasing the peril of allergic reaction or inflammation. To add together to that an infant’s pare possesses piffling melanin, the paint that gives coloring to skin, hair, together with eyes, together with provides unopen to Sun protection. Therefore, babies are specially susceptible to the sun’s damaging effects.

Tips for infant Sun safety:

* Use removable mesh window shields to function on direct

sunlight from coming inward through the windows of your

car or invest inward UV window film, which tin post away covert virtually 100% of ultraviolet radiations without reducing

visibility.

 * Take walks early on inward the morning time earlier 10 a.m. or late

afternoon after four p.m. together with role a stroller amongst a

sun-protective cover.

* Dress babe inward lightweight vesture that covers the

arms together with legs.

* Choose a wide-brimmed lid or bonnet that protects

the baby’s face, neck, together with ears. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 babe who wears a

hat during the kickoff few months volition instruct used to having

it on.

* Provide adequate liquids to function on your infant hydrated.

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If adequate vesture together with shade aren't available, apply pocket-size amounts of sunscreen alone on areas of your baby's exposed skin, such every bit the appear upward together with dorsum of the hands.

Babies:6-12 months

It’s similar a shot prophylactic to role sunscreen on babies.

Tips for babe Sun safety:

* All the protection methods explained higher upward still

apply; however, similar a shot sunscreen role should move incorporated.

* Apply a broad-spectrum, SPF 15+ sunscreen to areas

left uncovered such every bit baby’s hands. Many companies

have tear-free formulas that won’t sting baby’s eyes.

* Most importantly, sunscreen must move applied thirty minutes earlier going outside.

(Sun Safety Tips for Infants, Babies, together with Toddlers.(2010). Dermatology Nursing,38-39).

Book Review: The Footling Cherry Hen Retold Past Times Starfall

This English linguistic communication Folk Tale is 1 I'm certain you're familiar with. This floor follows a petty cerise hen who asks her friends to assist brand corn muffins, simply when all of her friends exclusively desire to assist her EAT them she finds it difficult to share. Click here for a FREE online version of this mass (It is a petty dissimilar than the master version simply it's tardily for a immature kid to follow as well as fifty-fifty read). Your kid tin forcefulness out easily click through the pages equally you lot read this mass together.

The Little Red Hen

After reading this floor brand some healthy delicious muffins amongst your child. Ask them to assist as well as include them inwards whatsoever pace possible. They'll run across the fun inwards helping as well as the vantage of difficult work, which is of course of report eating them! This muffin recipe uses Greek yogurt, blueberries as well as orangish juice. Try it out! click below for directions.

Healthy Orange Blueberry Muffins 

Ingredients 
2 large eggs 
2/3 loving cup sugar (or 1/2 loving cup of carbohydrate replacement such equally love or maple syrup)
1/2 loving cup canola oil 
1/4 loving cup apple tree sauce  
1/2 loving cup greek yogurt 
1/2 loving cup orangish juice 
1 tsp vanilla extract 
1- 1 1/2 cups of blueberries 
1 1/2 cups sifted all run flour 
1 1/2 loving cup sifted whole wheat flour  
2 tsp baking soda 
1 tsp salt 
zest of two oranges- play amongst this until you lot teach the correct almost of orangish flavour you lot prefer

Optional Crumb topping 
1/2 loving cup all run flour 
1/2 loving cup brownish sugar 
4 tbsp footing Balance

-Recipe from Jocelyn

Healthy Orange Blueberry Muffins

Playground Scavenger Hunt

Discovery Park

Last weekend I took my nieces in addition to nephews to the regain commons inwards Pleasant Grove or every bit they telephone band it "the commons amongst the big blood-red slide" (1550 North 100 East if y'all desire to induce this fun wooden commons out). This is a commons that they exclusively catch a distich of times a twelvemonth thus they were all pretty excited. They were telling me all most the novel in addition to unlike things this commons had that their other local parks didn't. I thus came across this fun persuasion that y'all could create amongst your kids inwards a playgroup.

Playground Scavenger Hunt!

Use the listing below to honor all of the unlike playground equipment at different parks merely about you. This is an action that could survive ongoing for y'all in addition to your kids. Visit at to the lowest degree 1 novel commons a calendar month in addition to banking concern gibe grade all of the unlike types of playground equipment your children tries out. This volition teach them active in addition to excited to search for novel parks to consummate their lists. Feel costless to add together to it too!

Click hither for a total printable version

Resource Spotlight: Prophylactic Kids Utah

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The Safe Kids Utah organization started inward 1995 alongside the mission to brand Utah a safer house for children past times preventing unintentional injuries as well as fatalities. They produce this by:

• raising community awareness
• influencing policies
• promoting safety
• establishing private/public partnerships

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Their website has data as well as resources on automobile spot safety, bike helmet safety, H2O safety, burn safety, Utah security laws as well as much more. Here are some things to come about your kid safe:

• The police inward Utah is to come about your kid inward a booster spot until the historic catamenia of 8
• You tin terminal direct maintain a Child Passenger Safety Technician direct maintain a hold off at your automobile to brand certain your children are safely secure. There are several places unopen to Utah that have Child Passenger Safety Technicians as well as a listing of these tin terminal move found past times clicking here
• Never acquire out your kid inward the car. The temperature inward your automobile tin terminal increase upward to 19 degrees inward merely 10 minutes. Its unsafe as well as children expire from this every year. 
• Helmets should move worn every fourth dimension a kid rides a bike. Make it a habit! Let your kid select their own helmet; if it's "cool" as well as then they'll desire to article of apparel it. There is a 5-step Helmet Fit Test yous tin terminal produce to brand certain your child's caput volition move protected properly. 

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• Summer fourth dimension is hither as well as that way swimming, boating as well as lots of water! This is a fun fourth dimension of twelvemonth but don't acquire caught upward inward merely the fun. Make certain your kid wears an appropriately fitting life jacket on a boat as well as inward the lake. Enroll your kids inward swimming lessons hence they tin terminal larn to float, tread water, as well as swim. This volition move a life long science that volition never move wasted. Teach your kids to ever swim alongside a buddy as well as remain unopen to the shore. 
• Learn CPR! Find a marker near you offered past times the American Red Cross.

Balancing Praise In Addition To Criticism Every Minute Your Fry Learns

Small children tin flaming as well as produce larn real quickly. They bring the capabilities of mastering skills inwards a minuscule amount of time. They ofttimes produce this past times watching those around them. Children strongly position amongst our patterns of demeanour as well as mimic everything nosotros do; it's of import for us every bit adults, role-models and parents to travel a proficient instance of how to learn, how to attention as well as how to hand praise.

Praise

There is ofttimes a lot of pressure level for children to larn to read, write or larn to play an instrument. Sometimes they feed off of the praise others hand them for their success rather than their ain feelings of satisfaction as well as accomplishment. This tin flaming truly travel harmful to your child's learning as well as self-esteem. Praise is proficient exactly besides much praise tin flaming become pressure instead of reassurance. Giving modest as well as gentle amounts of praise is proficient when your kid succeeds. MD Carol Dweck, a  researcher inwards the acre of achievement as well as success, suggests praising your kid for their difficult operate instead of labeling them every bit "smart" or "talented". For example, "I tin flaming tell yous worked thus difficult on those math problems!" Instead of "Look how smart yous are!". This volition attention your kid realize that it's the difficult operate as well as conclusion that truly matters. Encouraging them to hold forrard is also proficient exactly avoid shaping his work for him or pressuring him to travel the best of all; focus on his best. Praise is also bully afterward a kid fails as well as thus tries again! This may travel difficult to sentinel exactly allow your kid fail. Failure amongst novel explorations of success are proficient for your child. Don't jump inwards the minute yous come across struggle. Allow your kid room to abide by ways to accomplish the finish or business he has laid upwards out to do.

In MD T. Berry Brazelton's mass touchpoints: Your Child's Emotional as well as Behavior Development he says, "Never forget the enormous ability of frustration to fuel a modest kid every bit he searches for mastery as well as a sense of his ain competence."

From Frustration to success and accomplishment

Your instance of how to praise volition attention fuel the success of your child. If yous are faced amongst a business that is challenging to YOU, retrieve that your kid is watching. They are observing how yous volition overcome that challenge. Take banker's complaint of how yous react. Find choice solutions as well as don't hand up. They'll mimic the means yous modify your failures into successes.

Book Review: Llama Llama Ruby-Red Pajama Past Times Anna Dewdney

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llama llama ruby pajama is a good illustrated majority amongst lots of rhyming! It is business office of a serial of books written past times Anna Dewdney. The majority goes through llama llama ruby pajama's bedtime routine amongst his mamma. He learns that his mamma is ever almost fifty-fifty if she isn't correct in that place amongst him.

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Activity to acquire along amongst this book:

Explore rhyming amongst your kid starting amongst basic words. Try giving your kid a give-and-take in addition to seeing how many unlike words they tin come upward up amongst that rhyme. If your kid is older, come across if they tin write a poetry form or a even out that rhymes. This is a slap-up action to help broaden your child's linguistic communication skills.

Plastic Bottle Bowling

One of my "nerdy" hobbies inwards life is bowling. I joined a bowling league inwards Jan of this twelvemonth as well as had the fourth dimension of my life. My squad as well as I ended upwardly winning the tournament a few weeks agone which led me to this fun playgroup action I constitute on some other blog. This could live a swell action that you lot brand alongside your kids which leads to a fun game you lot tin percentage alongside other kids inwards a playgroup.

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Here's what you'll need:

10 clear plastic bottles-preferably nevertheless size alongside the caps too
Craft acrylic paint
A ball-a piddling fleck of weight to the ball is helpful. 

Instructions:

• Clean the within of the bottles well.
• Add some pigment to each bottle. See the pic below for a expert amount. If your pigment is  thick you'll desire to add together some H2O to it as well as then the pigment tin motion around as well as coat the inside. About a teaspoon of H2O should work. 



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• Put the caps dorsum on the bottles as well as permit your kids milk shiver them allowing the entire within of the bottle to live covered inwards paint. You could also use 2 colors inwards a bottle as well as brand the within await swirly. Get creative!
• Take the caps off, dump the extra pigment out as well as permit them dry out for close 12 hours. 
• Put the caps dorsum on as well as adapt them on your sidewalk similar the designing to the right. 
• Let the game begin! You'll kids volition dearest a piddling challenge. Hopefully they tin knock them all down!