Category: H&C Article

When families and child care providers come together and build great relationships with a focus on the child’s developmental growth, great things happen in the home and classroom. Please enjoy the Family issue of Home & Classroom magazine by downloading your digital copy here. If you would like to be added to the mailing list…

Teaming up for a Brighter Future by Amelia Green Home & Classroom Vol 8 Read Vol 8 For many families and school districts, a New Year can mean many things; a new school year in September with new opportunities for learning and growth, or it might be the New Year in January or February when…

Teaming up for a Brighter Future by Amelia Green Home & Classroom Vol 8 Read Vol 8 For many families and school districts, a New Year can mean many things; a new school year in September with new opportunities for learning and growth, or it might be the New Year in January or February when…

What About The Wind? by Colleen Sterling Home and Classroom Volume 6 – Babies The wind can be difficult concept to understand. Wind is moving air and air is what we breathe. You can’t see wind, except for what it moves like leaves, branches or plastic bags. You feel wind on your skin and blowing…

Are You Talking To Me? by Mary Miranda Home and Classroom Volume 6 – Babies My first child was a surprise C-section. Having complications from the anesthesia along with a lingering lack of support for breastfeeding in the early 1980s resulted in my plan to breastfeed being put aside. The nurse in charge of the…

Bringing Home Baby by Elizabeth Birkhead Weaver, RN Home and Classroom Volume 6 Bringing a new infant home has always been both an exciting and a stressful time for parents. Especially if it’s your first time, you will probably have a lot of questions about how to take care of and raise your baby. Now,…

Through his eyes, and ears, and touch- the world is both beautiful and overwhelming. Written by Abbe Kovacik Temperament describes the way in which we approach and respond to the world. Understanding temperament can help us to nurture a child’s development. Children who have an “active temperament” may be highly sensitive and very aware of…

Providing materials and the opportunities to explore is a wonderful way to enhance and support sensory play Materials and experiences that stimulate an infant’s sense of touch, smell, taste, movement, balance, internal sense of safety, sight and hearing are often called Sensory Play. Judging by the hundreds of Pinterest postings and YouTube videos about creating…