ELA & Social Studies Articles - Page 6

What better way to improve kids’ vocabulary mastery than through fun and engaging play. Children love to play outdoors, and summer is ideal time to transform learning into a joyful activity. Here is a list of valuable takeaways to help your kids enlarge vocabulary during the summer break. 

Reading and writing are lifelong skills that kids should never stop mastering. Just because summer is meant for relaxing, it doesn’t mean that young learners need a long break from their preschool endeavors. Kids Academy offers a unique pick of creative tips to help your children progress in reading and writing without summer learning loss.  

If you are about to teach your kids logics and are wondering where to start from, then this post is for you. 

As we know, little kids don’t like lectures, they simply get bored when they hear monotonous speech. They learn best in a creative, hands-on environment where they can do things themselves. For this reason, try to shorten the time of your speech, but involve their senses in personalized and meaningful for them tasks.

For us, parents, it seems incredibly difficult to teach kids to write. We hardly know where to start from. However, writing is a process that breaks easily into several stages: scribbling, tracing, and independent writing.

We are happy to share the news that our new app Montessori ABC for Kids HD is now available on the App Store.

In our previous blog post we gave some advice on how to choose books for kids. Today we are going to share some tips about reading aloud. We’ve done thorough research into the topic and we are sure you will benefit from following the tips.

This blog post is going to be all negative. Not because we are so boring, but just because we are writing about the things to avoid during reading aloud. There are only 8 points, so let us start…

In the era of smart devices and digital communication we spend most of our days with laptops, tablets, and smart phones. We communicate mostly via e-mail or texting, which requires keyboarding skills.  However, we can easily live through the day without writing a single word with a pen. Does this mean that we should dump writing as a useless activity and teach our kids to type?

Listen & Play mode is created especially to foster children's creativity. They listen to the story and animate the characters themselves. There's no particular order to bring the characters to life, kids can experiment and do this according to their own liking.

This blog post in the story time series is going to be different from the previous ones where we published our personal stories. The thing is that our next app is going to be a book app, and we thought it would be unnatural to make up stories about the well-known fairy tale.