Creative Years New Gym Update
December 11, 2009
After three months of construction the gym and new classroom are finally complete! The children are enjoying their new indoor play place. The gym provides a place for children to engage in gross motor activities. Tumbling mats, crawling mats for infants and toddlers, climbing mats and balance beams are a few of [...]
Eastern Equine Encephalitis
September 1, 2009
What is eastern equine encephalitis?
Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) is an uncommon but serious disease caused by EEE virus. EEE is an arbovirus (short for arthropod-borne, meaning spread by insects). The virus can be transmitted to horses, other animals, and, in rare cases, people.
How do people get eastern equine encephalitis?
The EEE virus grows in birds that [...]
Toddlers and Biting
July 31, 2009
Toddlers bite when they’re frustrated and don’t know how else to express it, when they’re interested in finding out more about someone, and when teething. These are some pieces of advice to convince toddlers to stop biting people.
How to Keep Your Toddler from Biting
from wikiHow – The How to Manual That You Can Edit
Steps
Give [...]
Protecting Children from the Sun
June 29, 2009
As a reminder, for sun protection we ask parents to apply sunscreen to their child before coming to school. We then reapply each time we go outdoors. We ask that parents provide their child with a bottle of sunscreen along with a hat.
Just a few serious sunburns can increase your child’s risk of [...]
New Gymnasium Construction Underway
June 13, 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Nashua, New Hampshire – June 11, 2009
Creative Years continues its tradition of providing excellence through expansion.
Footings for New Gym at Creative Years
Needing a multi-purpose indoor play space has been on the high priority list for a few years now explains Owner and President, Bobbie Smith. “We have talked about expanding our current [...]
Reading Aloud to Children: How? And Why?
March 14, 2009
Has anyone ever stopped to ask, “Why are those early childhood teachers always gathering the children in a group to read?” In most early childhood classrooms at any given time of day an observer will notice a group of children quietly listening as the classroom teacher reads a book aloud. This is common practice in [...]
More Dairy, Calcium in Childhood, Longer Life?
January 16, 2009
Study beginning in 1930s suggests link, but experts unsure
A 65-year-long study finds that people who took in lots of calcium and dairy products as children tended to avoid stroke and live longer than those who didn’t.
“This study shows a modest protective effect of dietary calcium intake in childhood against stroke risk later in life, and [...]
Creative Years Recognized for Africa Efforts
November 16, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Nashua, New Hampshire – November 12, 2008 – As she looks at it, smiling, owner Bobbie Smith never imagined – and certainly not 17 years ago – that she would now have a class photograph hanging on her office wall of an entire school for orphaned and vulnerable children, from a small southwest [...]
