Can chess be a good Educational Game for Toddlers?
August 10, 2012 — Guest Blogger | Posted in Educational Ideas. 1 Comment »Did you decide to teach your three year old to play chess? This is very good news, and here’s why. After all, chess is not just a game that delivers a lot of fun for children, but it is also a fun, effective and efficient means of mental development. The process of learning chess helps children focus on simple things, teaches them to remember, compare, generalize, predict the results of their work; it also contributes to the improvement of such valuable qualities as diligence, attentiveness, independence, patience, ingenuity, etc.
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Wouldn’t you love to walk into a kitchen all clean and sparkling? I just loved how this family came up with a practice that helps everyone clean up quickly, without fights and with whole family participating: 
On a TeachYourBabyToRead yahoo group, another terrific discussion of great books for the kids up to two years old. We LOVE reading, so couldn’t skip this opportunity to insert our five cents. Please jump on a wagon and add your favorites!
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This song turned out to be so much fun, that we sing it even after we were done with our unit in Geography.
Montessori Practical Life transferring activities seem redundant and boring to me… and absolutely irresistible to my kid. I think my older one, Sunshine, can spend hours just pouring water or spooning beans. Though it’s tongs and tweezers that are the dearest to his heart!
My little one is turning 10 months in a few days. These are his favorite Montessori activities:
So, here are the Montessori resources that I found useful! Enjoy and please share if you discovered something that I haven’t seen yet!