Explaining the Minute Hand in Single Minutes When the kids are ready to move beyond the tidy fractions of an hour, you can start adding on a few odd minutes here or there. Have them start by adding single minutes to multiples of five-minutes. First demonstrate that there are five-minutes between each number on the […]
Explaining Minute Hand IncrementsOnce kids are confident reading whole hours, they can learn to read all the minutes in between. Show them how to read half hours and increments of 5, 10, and 15 minutes before you teach them to read individual minutes. This will discourage them from trying to count out every single minute […]
Learning About the Hour Hand Since an hour is the largest unit of time a clock measures (aside from an entire day), the hour hand is the best one for kids to learn first. Explain to children that the hour hand keeps track of things that take a long time, then give a few examples […]
How Nannies and Au Pairs Can Help Kids Learn to Tell Time There’s a time for everything. There’s a time to go to school, time to do homework, dinner time, bedtime, and the list goes on. If you want to keep kids on schedule, teach them how to keep time, show them how to read […]
Product Review Sunday for Nannies and Au Pairs Last night Americans turned their clocks back an hour to end Daylight Savings Time. Daylight Savings Time is to make better use of the daylight in the evenings. With the extra hour why not teach kids how to tell time with The Learning Journey Telly The Teaching […]
Weekly Trip to the Library Before going to bed tonight we turn our clocks back an hour. Saving the Daylight by David Prerau tells the remarkable story of daylight saving time (summer time) — the intriguing and entertaining tale of our attempt to regulate the sunlight hours. It chronicles how the revolutionary idea of putting […]
Nine Caregiver Myths Debunked By Candi Wingate of Nannies4Hire.com and Care4Hire.com If you just read the headlines in American pop culture, you could get the wrong idea about nannies. Books and movies like The Nanny Diaries, lawsuits between celebrity couples and their nannies, and affairs between nannies and husbands (or wives), are enough to make […]
How Nannies and Au Pairs Can Help Children Follow-Through This week Maria Lopez, a nanny and former second grade teacher, has agreed to answer questions nannies have about helping children do well in school. Reyna Horowitz, a nanny in New York asked Be the Best Nanny Newsletter what she can do to help her young […]
How Nannies and Au Pairs Help Kids Thrive in School Be the Best Nanny Newsletter has received several questions from au pairs and nannies about helping their charges with homework and behavior issues at school. To help answer in-home child care provider questions, Maria Lopez, a former second grade teacher and nanny working in Miami, […]
It’s Election Day All 435 seats in the United States House of Representatives and 37 of the 100 seats in the United States Senate will be contested in this election along with 38 state and territorial governorships, many state legislatures, four territorial legislatures and numerous state and local races. If you forgot to wake up […]
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