by Mikelle Despain | Jun 26, 2020 | About Kids Village, Children and Learning |
Why does Kids Village embroider our students names on their red book bags and aprons? You may be surprised by the science behind it.
by Mikelle Despain | Jun 15, 2020 | Children and Learning |
If you talk to other parents on the first day of preschool or take a peek on social media, you’ll find parents talking about how hard it is to drop your child off for preschool on the first day. The interesting thing is that it almost always is harder for the...
by Mikelle Despain | May 28, 2020 | Children and Learning, Kid Activities |
Springtime means it’s the perfect time to get outside and explore. We love when our students come to us with questions about what they’ve observed. Sometimes all the “whys” can seem overwhelming—especially when you’re a parent trying to...
by Mikelle Despain | May 19, 2020 | Children and Learning, Kid Activities |
Reading may not always be top-of-mind in the summer, but it’s important to keep it as part of your child’s routine. This way they won’t forget the letters or sounds that they’ve learned, can continue developing their vocabulary and reading...
by Mikelle Despain | Apr 24, 2020 | Children and Learning |
During the COVID-19 crisis, schools are shut down and children are missing the socialization that comes with seeing their friends. While parents are facing many challenges associated with homeschooling, working from home, balancing work and having children at home,...
by Mikelle Despain | Apr 7, 2020 | Kid Activities |
Staycation. Usually staycations were reserved for budgeteers, families staying home for medical reasons, or for those work-from-home parents who needed some semblance of a vacation while still being able to pop into the home office. But this spring, more and more of...
by Mikelle Despain | Mar 7, 2020 | Children and Learning |
Kids love to learn. It’s hard-wired into their programming! Unlike the furtive studying we remember from our education days, however, kids learning is almost always in the form of play. Not only does this style of learning help stimulate their brain, but it also has a...
by Mikelle Despain | Feb 12, 2020 | Kid Activities |
We love Valentine’s Day! It breaks up the gloomy gray of January and February by bringing a fun, sweet holiday–and an excuse to show some love. Valentine’s Day sometimes gets a bad rap for being commercialized or “created by card...
by Mikelle Despain | Dec 15, 2019 | About Kids Village |
Instead of telling children what they can and can’t wear to school, we ask them to wear their own personalized Kids Village red apron every day during class.
by Mikelle Despain | Nov 26, 2019 | Children and Learning |
Whether your a full-time homemaker or work outside the home, being a parent is no easy task. There are days when you feel like a rampaging “no monster” and others when you’ve got your nose to the grindstone checking off To-Dos. With so much on your plate, it can be...