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Give Our Children the Words They will Need to Save the Planet
Scientists predict that in 2050 nine major cities will be under water due to climate change (think New York, Los Angeles, Singapore)....
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The Gift of Words: How Do Children Learn to Talk?
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tammymsteele
- May 15
- 1 min
Math is Everywhere - Math Talk Prepares Toddlers for the World
Parents who talk about big ideas in math prepare their children to do well in school and at home. What are big math ideas? Math is more...
tammymsteele
- May 8
- 1 min
Make Home-School Connections With Math Talk Conversations
Invite parents to explore the meanings of the word “more” at home while their children explore the math of more at school. Give families...
tammymsteele
- Apr 16
- 2 min
Rote Learning Is Not the Same as Understanding
What is the same about 5 fingers and 5 spoons? The quantity or number of them. This is a truly difficult concept to get. It is an...
tammymsteele
- Apr 16
- 2 min
Jellybean Talk & Play for Spring
In Chicago winter can defy spring with its tradition of one last snowstorm to bury the first yellow daffodils to decide to bloom. That is...
tammymsteele
- Dec 18, 2022
- 1 min
Count on More Math Talk in 2023
Make mathematical words like count have a more important role in your child’s play in 2023. Math Talk is hard to learn, but babies show...
tammymsteele
- Jul 17, 2022
- 1 min
How to Teach Math the Short Way
Nature provides babies with millions of neurons for learning math. However, nature depends on parents and families to identify and name...
tammymsteele
- Jul 17, 2022
- 1 min
Everyday Words are Math Words
What do empty, full, same, and different have in common? They are all concepts you can teach using math talk. Learn how to teach your...
tammymsteele
- Jul 12, 2022
- 1 min
Jump Start Your Baby’s Math Brain
Children are born with the capacity to understand abstract math ideas like “more.” When you talk about more milk, more applesauce or more...
tammymsteele
- Jul 11, 2022
- 1 min
Teach Children That the World is Organized through Math Play
What is Math Talk? Math is more than numbers. It is an abstract way of solving problems. Math uses patterns, measurement, logic and order...
tammymsteele
- Jul 11, 2022
- 1 min
Play Teaches Children to Solve Math Problems
Babies’ brains are born to understand big math ideas such as more/no more or same/different. When they play, they use these ideas but...
tammymsteele
- Jul 8, 2022
- 1 min
Math is Everywhere
Toddlers play with math ideas, but they need parents to name the concepts.
Tammy M. Steele
- May 19, 2021
- 1 min
Counting on Toe Math
Infants and toddlers love their hands and feet for good reason. They can put socks on their feet and gloves on their hands. They can step...
Tammy M. Steele
- Dec 12, 2020
- 1 min
What Does a Toddler Want Most?
After food and sleep, what a toddler wants most is to be understood. After centuries of believing that infants were born as blank slates,...
Tammy M. Steele
- Jul 2, 2020
- 1 min
Teachers Partner with Parent Literacy Leaders
If children must hear and use a word 24 times before 80% of them can remember it, teachers will need help making sure special words get...
Tammy M. Steele
- Jul 2, 2020
- 1 min
Survival Stories: Words for a Pandemic
If you are a parent of young children, your parents might not have prepared you to grow up with a toolkit for surviving a pandemic. For...
Tammy M. Steele
- Jul 2, 2020
- 2 min
How to Chat with a Toddler Who Doesn’t Talk
It is possible to have a conversation with a toddler who doesn’t talk, if a mama does just a little ...Read More
Tammy M. Steele
- Jul 2, 2020
- 1 min
Parents as Literacy Leaders
Conversation Starter #8 Cook It, Eat It, Clean It Up - Ages 1 ½ to 3 years old
Tammy Steele
- Jun 1, 2020
- 1 min
Manly Decisions
Let’s talk about the men in a baby’s life. Clearly all three babies in this photo are totally interested in the two men.
Tammy Steele
- May 1, 2020
- 2 min
It Doesn’t Take More Time, It Takes More Words
Question 1: Who is your child’s first teacher?
Question 2: What is a teachable moment?
Tammy Steele
- Apr 30, 2020
- 1 min
What other parents know and do:
Every parent has what it takes to be a brain builder
Tammy M. Steele
- Apr 29, 2020
- 1 min
A 2020 New Year’s Wish
Give Our Children the Words They will Need to Save the Planet
Support parents. Grow their children’s vocabulary. Give every family The Gift of Words. It doesn’t take more time. It takes more words. Discount for bulk orders:
call 773-327-0806.
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