Prescolaire Blog: Nurturing Young Minds
5 at Home Learning Activities to Teach Scientific Concepts to Your Preschooler
Learning at Home Doesn’t Always Have to Look Like School, Sometimes It Just Looks Like Fun
Preschool children are naturally curious and open-minded, which makes them perfect scientists. They are also risk-takers and unafraid of being wrong, which allows them to make predictions, explore and communicate ideas and take chances. Science is a natural extension of your...
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Multilingualism in Early Childhood Education
Use it or lose it.
This basic operating principle applies to all parts of the body—including, and perhaps especially, the brain.
Research shows that those who've been multilingual since childhood have better executive functioning skills, and that multilingualism can prevent Alzheimer’s and other age-related brain issues.
Why is this? Why is learning more than one language...
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Digital Fluency
Fluency is the ability to communicate an idea or tell a story with ease. To be fluent in a foreign language, for example, means going beyond just asking for directions or reading a menu in a restaurant. It requires understanding the language well enough to create and express whatever the situation calls for, at will.
Technology is also a language. For the most part, the current generation...
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