Keeping Kids Engaged During the Holiday Break

Children attending STEM-based education programs like those offered at The Amazing Explorers Academy are accustomed to a certain level of intellectual stimulation. When they are in the classroom, their minds are continually challenged with new ideas, bold concepts, and social interaction with other children. But all that can stop during the holiday break. Rather than …

Making Friends Is an Important Life Skill

When children are born, they rely on their parents for everything: Food, warmth, safety, even companionship. But as kids get older, it’s important to their social development that they interact with other children their own age. Children with siblings have an advantage when it comes to socialization skills. Being around their brothers and sisters teaches …

Your Child’s Future Starts Today

Compared to adults’ lives, children’s lives are relatively carefree. There are relatively few commitments, deadlines, or worries to cloud kids’ sunny days. Yet children’s futures can be determined when they are still very young. And it’s usually up to their parents to guide them in the right direction. The choices they make for their children …

5 Ways Your 4-Year-Old Can Benefit from Pre-School

The state of Florida offers free pre-school education to every 4-year-old. Unlike elementary school, enrolling your young child in pre-school isn’t mandatory. But it does offer some enormous advantages your child can benefit from throughout their education, their career, and in their personal life. Here are five great reasons to take advantage of Florida’s innovative, …

How to Apply for Florida’s Free Voluntary Pre-Kindergarten Program

Florida is one of the few states in the US offering all of its 4-year-old children free access to free pre-kindergarten education. The state’s Voluntary Free PreKindergarten program provides emergent literacy skills — including letter and sound recognition — that can help a child be successful throughout his or her education as well as into …

Reading Will Always Be a Critical Life Skill

There’s been a lot of conversation lately about the future of reading, specifically books. In an era where anybody can stream anything anywhere at any time on their smartphones or tablets, will there really be a need for books in the not so distant future? Or will they go the way of radio, an archaic …

STEAM Learning Boosts Creative Thinking Skills

It’s never too early to introduce children to creative ways of thinking. The first few years of life is when children’s brains begin forming learning habits and thought patterns they will carry with them throughout their lives. So the earlier they can be introduced to concepts such as scientific method, art appreciation, and mathematics, the …

3 Ways to Help Your Child Develop Language Skills

Conversations between children and their teachers and other adults during pre-school and kindergarten are fundamental to their grasp of language. Vocabulary, grammar, and even subtleties of meaning that are learned during these interactions can be carried through during their entire lives. At birth, humans have the physical capacity to make 40 different sounds. As the …