by Leah Langby | Nov 12, 2018 | Uncategorized
Did you know it takes small children at least 8 seconds to process a request and then figure out how to respond? Brooke Newberry, one of our fabulous presenters last week at the Youth Services/SLP workshop, reminded us of this important fact. She also...
by Leah Langby | Sep 6, 2018 | Keeping Up With Kids
Image: PixabayThere’s been so much great work in libraries about early literacy skills, and empowering parents to talk, sing, read, write, and play with their kids to help develop them. Many libraries are also doing some great work around early math...
by Leah Langby | Dec 12, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids
A child playing in BloomerEvery several months, I have a chance to get together with early childhood professionals from around western Wisconsin, and it is often some of the most fruitful time I spend. Not because I get a lot of taks ticked off my list, but...
by Leah Langby | Oct 25, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids
There’s a group of early childhood professionals (librarians, teachers, family literacy providers, childcare consultants, and more) in the Chippewa Valley working on an initiative to address the 30 million word gap identified by researchers Hart and Risely in...
by Leah Langby | Aug 25, 2017 | Uncategorized
Even though it is on a commercial site, this is a great explanation of the way kids learn to understand numbers (being able to count to 10 does not mean that children understand the concept behind the numbers). It gives some simple suggestions of activities to...
