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Dear Subscriber, You have subscribed to the ezine from http://www.heartland-moms.com. To unsubscribe, please see the link at the bottom of this ezine. In this issue... *Ape for Art Creative Movement, Music, and Art Program *Single Moms Educational Scholarship *Preschool Activities online *Summer Field Trip to Lakeland Children's Museum *Children's Museum of the Highlands Membership Information *Creating Centers for Your Preschooler at Home Featured Listing! Ape for Art, http://www.apeforart.com is a new program that is available to Highlands County Parents. This exciting program offers music, movement, and art classes for children 0-7 years old, Mommy's Day Out programs, and birthday party entertainment. Registration is now available online for the upcoming fall classes. Heartland Moms can get a 15% discount by using this link: http://www.apeforart.com/?code=2698 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Helping Hearts and Hands is offering a $500 scholarship for any single mom in Highlands County that is attending classes in the vocational field or for a degree. If you are or know someone that qualifies, please send them to http://www.heartland-moms.com/single-mom-scholarship.html to download the application. This is an urgent matter as they are to be postmarked by August 1, 2007. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If you are looking for a resource for preschool activities, visit my newest site http://www.preschool-activities-everyday.com . A new selection of activities will be added each month so check back often. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Heartland Moms Field Trip to the Lakeland Children's Museum http://www.explorationsv.com -July 30- leaving Sebring at 9:00 am. Cost is around $5 per person, but I could not find any definite daily prices on the site. Please email newsletter@heartland-moms.com to RSVP. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Children Museum of the Highlands offers family memberships for $40. For an additional $10, you get reciprocal membership to more than 5 other museums (not Lakeland)- St. Petersburg, Tampa, etc. See their site for more information. http://www.childrensmuseumhighlands.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Creating Centers for Your Preschooler at Home By Rebekah Kogelschatz Just like preschools have centers, you can create your own centers in whatever space you have. Centers are collections of materials, games, and objects in specific curriculum areas that help encourage learning in a particular area. Some areas include art, music, dress up, reading, home, puzzles and blocks, math, and computers. Centers can be shoe boxes of different items and games or large sections of the bedroom, playroom, or family room. For those that live in climates with extremes that do not allow outside play, so outside things can be brought indoors like small slides or climbers. Depending on your space, indoor play can look like a preschool or be fit into a small section of your house. Here are some examples of things you can do to create you own centers for your preschooler. 1. A home center (even for boys!)- have a small kitchen/grill, ironing board, babies, and even a small table for children to pretend to be adults. Role playing is an important part of brain development and language development. Play with your child, have tea, make dinner. Interact with your child in their world. 2. Dress up Center- Again, the importance of role playing. Every child can have an adult pair of shoes, an old shirt or night gown, or even some small sized dress up costumes. This is a great place to use old Halloween costumes! 3. Reading Center- Provide a variety of books and magazines for kids. Books should be about real things like trucks, dinosaurs, bugs, and animals, and fantasy stories. Books should be available for children to reach without asking. You can also include books on tape/CD with a small CD player or cassette player with headphones. You may need to keep this up and away if your child does not know how to operate the player or does not know how to handle CD’s. Remember to offer these occasionally if they do not ask. 4. Puzzles and Blocks Center- Kids love puzzles and blocks, parents don’t love puzzles and blocks. Yes, they make a mess, but a child that can get to puzzles and blocks freely without asking, will play with puzzles and blocks. Make rules about how many can be out, clean up when you are done, and if they need help they ask. 5. Math Center- Have cubes and shapes that your child can play with without rules. They will stack the cubes, count the shapes, sort the shapes, and make patterns. Another great tool is called a Geoboard. The child uses rubber bands and makes shapes and pictures. You could also use a child’s loom to do this. Puzzles with cut out numbers can also be included in this center. 6. Music Center- Have a variety of instruments, purchased or created, for your child to experience. You can also have music playing through free time play if your child likes music, or have the CD player available for them to use if they can. With the amount of downloadable music and electronic devices, your child may be more technologically advanced than you think! 7. Computer Center- If your child has access to a computer that may be something they choose to play with during their free time. At 4 years old, children can learn to manipulate a mouse and play games on the internet or through software on your computer. Educational software and online activities are great for your child to learn academic and language skills. Monitor the time on the computer, just as you would television time to make sure your child is not consumed with being on the computer. Rebekah Kogelschatz is a former school teacher of students with disabilities. She has taught all grades from pre-school to 8th grade in all subject areas. She is a stay at home with her two children in rural Florida. She is a co-founder of the site http://www.SmartMoms-SmartBusiness and the founder of a preschool resource site http://www.Preschool-Activities-Everyday.com. You can read her preschool blog http://preschool-activities-everyday.blogspot.com Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Rebekah_Kogelschatz ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If you would like to have a featured listing in the ezine, the cost is $25 for 2 issues in the same month and a featured listing on the home page of http://www.heartland-moms.com . Heartland-Moms has almost 100 subscribers of this ezine and over 250 page views per week. 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