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United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child

Thanks to my friend and colleague Carrie Nepstad for posting this link. What is the CRC? Adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on November 20, 1989, the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is a multilateral human rights treaty that promotes the rights of all children worldwide. The CRC recognizes all children’s […]

Sesame Street Redux

In August I posted an entry about sesamestreet.org which is  cool, interactive website for young children.  I love (and have loved for years) the Sesame Street puppets. When I was three-years-old, Sesame Street made its debut on PBS, which in Chicago is Channel 11.  Before that, we had Ray Rayner, Bozo’s Circus, and Mr. Green Jeans.  Sesame Street […]

Missing Numbers

On Monday, I had the pleasure of watching one of my student teachers complete a lesson plan about missing numbers with the children in her classroom.  She was very well-prepared by creating worksheets with large numbers written in circles with several numbers  missing.  She then had stickers with the missing numbers on them. I didn’t […]

Measurement and height

Height is probably one of the first ways we explore measurement with young children.  Words like “shorter” and  “taller” already exist in a young child’s vocabulary.  How “tall” someone is visual and easily seen.  Children are very interested in themselves, so conversations about how “big” or “tall” they are is engaging to them. When I […]

Oops!

This morning I posted “Tangrams” which was look at tangrams, a Chinese puzzle. I thought that my first introduction to tangrams, was through the book Chasing Vermeer, but one of my most avid readers reminded me (at 6:30 AM) that the book was not about tangrams, but about pentominoes. I really did think my memory […]

Family Math

Growing up I lived in a house with 5 people.  There was me, my mom, my dad, and my two sisters for a total of 5.  We also always had a dog,  so there were really  6 members of my family in the house.  When my older sister left home, there were 4 of us […]