edit: Early Bird School Openings for ages 12months and up

piemama | Feb 01, 2012 | 0 | Posted in Child Care

We are now enrolling and have immediate openings for children ages 12 months-kindergarten.

- Early Birds develop critical thinking skills, creativity, and a love of learning.
-Low-media environment and 6 children class size allows individualized attention.
-Spacious fenced-in yard for safe outdoor discoveries, motor skills development, gardening, and good old fun!
-Class taught by a mindful, enthusiastic teacher who connects wonderfully with children and previously taught in co-ops, preschool, and kindergarten settings.

Our mission is to inspire curious minds and to cultivate the love of learning. Early Bird strives to provide a safe and nurturing, developmentally appropriate environment to foster your child's growth and development. We use developmentally appropriate practices and an emergent curriculum (influenced by Reggio-Emilia) based on your child's interest. We will be learning naturally through play, stories, cooking, singing, yoga/creative movement, and building structures. Children are provided with plenty of hands-on experiences in a clean and safe environment.

We are located along the 6 Parnassus busline, at 12th Ave and Quintara.

Please call (415)702-0328 or visit www.earlybirdsf.com for more information.

Early Bird School Openings for ages 2.5-K

piemama | Jan 24, 2012 | 0 | Posted in Child Care

We are now enrolling and have immediate openings for children ages 2.5-kindergarten.

- Early Birds develop critical thinking skills, creativity, and a love of learning.
-Low-media environment and 6 children class size allows individualized attention.
-Spacious fenced-in yard for safe outdoor discoveries, motor skills development, gardening, and good old fun!
-Class taught by a mindful, enthusiastic teacher who connects wonderfully with children and previously taught in co-ops, preschool, and kindergarten settings.

Our mission is to inspire curious minds and to cultivate the love of learning. Early Bird strives to provide a safe and nurturing, developmentally appropriate environment to foster your child's growth and development. We use developmentally appropriate practices and an emergent curriculum (influenced by Reggio-Emilia) based on your child's interest. We will be learning naturally through play, stories, cooking, singing, yoga/creative movement, and building structures. Children are provided with plenty of hands-on experiences in a clean and safe environment.

We are located along the 6 Parnassus busline, at 12th Ave and Quintara.

Please call (415)702-0328 or visit www.earlybirdsf.com for more information.

Interesting article about Child Development

jorsari | Jan 29, 2009 | 0 | Posted in Recommend It!

Illustration by Jon Berkley

Easy as 1, 2, 3 Dec 30th 2008 From The Economist print edition People come into the world ready to count its wondersTHE baby is just one day old and has not yet left hospital. She is quiet but alert. Twenty centimetres from her face researchers have placed a white card with two black spots on it. She stares at it intently. A researcher removes the card and replaces it by another, this time with the spots differently spaced. As the cards alternate, her gaze starts to wander—until a third, with three black spots, is presented. Her gaze returns: she looks at it for twice as long as she did at the previous card. Can she tell that the number two is different from three, just 24 hours after coming into the world?

YMCA Parenting Class

rossitto94112 | Jan 08, 2009 | 0 | Posted in Recommend It!

This class is designed for parents and grandparents of children ages birth to 5-year-old.

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Software 101: Teaching Your Kids Some Application Basics

BrittG | Sep 10, 2008 | 0 | Posted in Recommend It!

pointing & clicking before walking?

By Dave Banks Email
September 10, 2008 | 9:00:00 AM
Wired Magazine

My kids have been pointing and clicking since before they were walking. When they were very little, they would sit on my lap and I'd fire up a little piece of OS X freeware called Baby Banger that creates colored shapes and sounds every time the mouse is clicked. As they got a little older, they moved into game playing on an old computer. Didi & Ditto, Groovy Music and, of course, Kid Pix became instant favorites. But now that they're in first-grade, I want to kick it up a notch and begin working with them on building some basic skills in real-life applications.

First, I decided which apps to concentrate on. Recently, my kids have shown interest in writing e-mails to their grandparents, so our e-mail client, Apple Mail, will be on the list. They see mom & dad browsing all the time, therefore Firefox will be included. And then, in order for them to understand some of the productivity tasks a computer can help with, we'll take a look at Photoshop and InDesign, the tools that this GeekDad can be seen using most often at home.

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