Heartbeat Teddy Bear
Heartbeat Teddy Bears: A plush 16” Teddy Bear with your baby’s heartbeat that is a lifetime keepsake!
We’ll mail you a beautiful, plush 16” teddybear and a recording devise. Take the recording devise to your next prenatal doctor’s appointment and while you and your doctor listen to your baby’s heartbeat, you record it with the recording devise (very easy and instructions are included). This recording can be done as early as 13 weeks!
You then insert it into the bear, next to the heart and each time you squeeze it, you’ll be able to hear your little ones heartbeat! The Bear has a zipper in the back, so no sewing is required.
This makes a great gift for Moms and Dads-to-be, Dads that are deployed and Grandparents! It is also a fun way to share with your family and friends that you are expecting!
Our introductory price is just $29.95!
More info here...
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Teaching Your Child Literacy Skills |
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Reading to your baby from infancy on exposes them to the alphabet, to the sounds that words make, and to the idea that print letters translate into spoken words. Talking to your child about a story also helps early understanding and vocabulary and not exposing them to this could set them up for reading challenges and even failure.
Today in the U.S., 37 percent of children start school without basic pre-reading skills. In 2002, government agencies convened the National Early Literacy Panel to understand what helps children from birth to age 5 learn to read when they get to school. Their report, “Developing Early Literacy,” released last year shows that you have to teach child literacy skills through play and give them plenty of access to books while growing up. Reading to them at a very early age teaches them alphabet, vocabulary, and language skills.
They also reported these five “Steps to Success”:
1. Print concepts: When you read to your child, you show them that you read words and not pictures, where you begin on a page and what direction you go in.
2. Alphabet knowledge: Help your child first learn to name letters, then the sounds that each letter makes.
3. Phonological awareness: Preschoolers also need to hear and remember the separations between words in a sentence and to hear the sounds within words. Rhyming books and songs encourage phonological awareness.
4. Oral language: Talk and ask questions to your child about what you’re reading.
5. Writing: Encourage any drawing or scribbling and let your child see you write.
These five simple steps and setting aside time to read with your child everyday can make a difference in your child’s reading success. |
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