Picture Books Help Kids Soar » reading to preschoolers

Last year, bloggers on WordPress were given a challenge to write a post every day…it was called Post-a-day-2011. This year, another daily post challenge has been issued by WordPress…Project 3...

https://viviankirkfield.com/2012/01/05/project-365-and-the-2012-positive-parental-participation-challenge/

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about ...

https://viviankirkfield.com/2012/01/02/2011-in-review/

For me, the greatest joy in the world is to be with those I love doing what I love. So you can imagine how joyful I was this past week, spending time in New Hampshire with my daughter and her …...

https://viviankirkfield.com/2011/10/18/show-me-how-story-time-with-miss-vivian-travels-to-new-hampshire-2/

What an awesome time to be traveling to New England. I’ll be flying to New Hampshire tomorrow and I can’t wait to gaze out the window of the plane, down at the magnificient fall folliage…s...

https://viviankirkfield.com/2011/10/08/show-me-how-story-time-with-miss-vivian-travels-to-new-hampshire/

  I went for a walk today. The sun was shining down, creating beautiful patterns on the ground as it filtered through the branches of the trees. The trail was littered with leaves, many of them ...

https://viviankirkfield.com/2011/10/03/autumn-leaves-a-lesson-in-diversity-for-all-of-us/

Once a month, our local Family Christian Store hosts the Show-Me-How Story-time with Miss Vivian program.  I read a picture book story and do a related craft project, chosen from those recommend...

https://viviankirkfield.com/2011/09/26/children-and-art-activities-some-observations/

 Your child is going to school.  As a parent, what can you do to make it the healthiest year ever? Perhaps your child is a preschooler and will be attending a daycare or nursery school.  Maybe...

https://viviankirkfield.com/2011/09/09/five-simple-steps-for-a-healthier-school-year/

Frank Sinatra sang songs about many of the cities that he loved…New York – San Francisco – Chicago. After a fantastic long weekend in Chicago, I’ll have to echo some of his words (written...

https://viviankirkfield.com/2011/08/28/chicago-my-kind-of-town/

The catastrophic events in Japan occur…and we read about a young child who donates her allowance to help the victims. A village in Africa is without clean drinking water…and we hear about a c...

https://viviankirkfield.com/2011/07/02/kids-are-heroes-too-how-can-we-help/

  I was thinking about what my next blog would be when I received a comment from Kat at education.com which sparked today’s post. In my post on Is it Too Early to Begin Planning for the New Sc...

https://viviankirkfield.com/2011/06/30/year-round-school-has-its-time-come/