Pretend Camping at The Vine Preschool this past week was very exciting for our 3 to 5-year-olds. Their teacher chose this week’s theme to be Camping, and the students were asked to bring sleeping bags and miniature tents. I must admit that I initially thought that it was an overzealous endeavor but I am quite […]
Nutrition Activities For Kids
Nutrition activities for kids is fun and can go a long way to assist with your child’s future education. From the time they could sit up in a shopping cart, my children were always involved in my trips to the grocery store. I would talk about what I was buying, ask them questions, change the […]
Learning to Play at The Vine Preschool
Learning to play at The Vine Preschool is both educational and fun. Dramatic Play/Pretend Play-In the early years, children are just beginning to understand the difference between fantasy and reality. Imaginative play and acting out both familiar characters (such as family members) and fictional ones helps children internalize this important distinction. For example, your child […]
Painting in School
At The Vine Preschool, we expose our children to paint very early. We start with footprints for babies as early as 4 months (only for special occasions) then from 6 months and up we start hand prints. By the time they can run (very soon after they start walking) we put a paintbrush in their […]
Establishing Consistency
Parents need to understand why establishing consistency is important in their child’s life. It is very important to establish consistency with children. From a very young age, children respond to consistency. As infants, they are able to indicate their response to consistency and parents recognize the signs. Some of the signs parents recognize are: when […]
Outdoor Play
There are two fundamental reasons why outdoor play is critical for young children in our early childhood programs and schools. First, many of the developmental tasks that children must achieve-exploring, risk-taking, fine and gross motor development and the absorption of vast amounts of basic knowledge-can be most effectively learned through outdoor play. Second, our culture […]
