Education

February 22, 2014

Top Ten Math Apps for Young Children

Here are 10 GREAT Math Apps I found for your little ones to visually practice their math skills!

$right$ Count Up To Ten: This app lets children discover numbers 1 to 10 and learn how to count using some of their favorite animals and characters.
Number Rack: The Number Rack facilitates the natural development of children’s number sense. Rows of moveable, colored beads encourage learners to think in groups of fives and tens, helping them to explore and discover a variety of addition and subtraction strategies.
Math is Fun: 4-5: Through 8 fun activities this app teaches kids to recognize numbers, to count, to order numbers, to play with weight, to determine order, and to handle shapes. It is an easy to use child-friendly design and free in the app store!

February 19, 2014

Are Cutting the Arts Putting us in Hot Water?

There is a rather critical matter at hand in education and I want to speak very directly about it. The arts are being eliminated from our schools and testing is on the rise. There is a prevailing notion that we need less of the arts in order to make more time for the subjects that are being tested and for the tests themselves.

This line of thinking actually results in lower test scores and disconnected, discouraged, under-achieving students. Why? Because the arts, the very thing schools want to eliminate, are essential to the majority of the student population; not because art is a fun way to relax or express oneself – but because the arts actually fuel the brain. The majority of the student population are visual-spatial learners that NEED the arts to think effectively.

February 4, 2014

Preschool Drawing: Developing Social and Academic Skills

I love art and kids, so it makes a lot of sense that my business, Young Rembrandts, is all about teaching kids how to do art. In Young Rembrandts, we teach a lot of elementary drawing classes, but I have to say teaching preschool classes is my absolute favorite. I love their enthusiasm and hunger to absorb the world around them – and their skill development is beyond remarkable.

Bringing art to children at an early age has tremendous impact, socially and academically. Look at these ladybug drawings and see what young kids can accomplish with some instruction and encouragement.

January 13, 2014

Young Rembrandts Drawing: Dramatic Skill Building

When I first created Young Rembrandts, I was teaching a lot of preschool classes. We see huge academic and social benefits to getting young kids into art and drawing at an early age. But this story is about our elementary students. Elementary children are equally impacted by the arts. I have talked a lot about the relationship between art and learning styles but today I want to focus on artistic skill development.

December 23, 2013

Holiday Activities: Reading Books

Books are such a great gift to get your kids and grand kids. It’s no secret that Brayden and I love reading, here are a few of our favorite book series that are perfect for beginning readers and for those who want to be read to

November 27, 2013

The History of Thanksgiving!

The “First Thanksgiving” was celebrated in 1621 after the first harvest in the new world, with colonists and Native Americans in attendance. Pilgrims regularly celebrated days of prayer, or “thanksgivings”, to thank God for their blessings.

November 21, 2013

Universal Children’s Day

I noticed yesterday that November 20^th is Universal Children’s Day! While not an official holiday, I am always excited when we put attention on the needs of children, locally and globally.

November 8, 2013

National Parents As Teachers Day

I have enjoyed finding lesser-known holidays to celebrate on my blog, I hope you have enjoyed learning about them. Here is another one… Did you know today is National Parents as Teachers Day? In honor of all you parents and teachers I found this informative article (originally posted on Medium.com) that I would like to share.

November 4, 2013

Brandon’s Story: Living with Dyslexia

I was talking to a friend about the HBO movie, Rethinking Dyslexia that aired recently. We had both been very impressed by the movie. I’ve researched and written about dyslexia in relation to being a visual learner, but my friend has first hand experience with a son who is dyslexic. As we talked about Brandon and his learning experiences, I was enormously impressed by the success he’s found in his career because of his perseverance and the ways he learned to make things more visual for himself.

October 16, 2013

Bette Fetter: The Visual Spatial Child

Does your child love to do puzzles and Lego’s?

Do they enjoy building and making things three dimensionally?

Do they often struggle to sit still in the classroom and do math or writing assignments?

If this sounds like your child, you may have a spatial learner. These kids are visual learners that are highly gifted in spatial thinking.

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