The Well-Rounded Three-Year-Old: How Preschool Plants the Seeds for Success, Part I

Part I: Cognitive Development Children’s brains grow more in their first five years than at any other time in their lives, according to First Things First. And while we adults fumble, trying to remember what we were going to say, our preschoolers are adding about eight new words daily to their vocabularies! Growing Further with Preschool These early […]

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What I Learn When I Play: 4 Benefits of Play-Based Learning

For some, the words “play” and “learning” are on opposite ends of the education spectrum. Playing brings to mind games, exercise, that special peal of laughter you might hear walking past a school at recess. Learning, on the other hand, might recall students with heads down in quiet classrooms. For early childhood educators, these two […]

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