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  • December 2024: Music, Book Spotlight
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  • October 2022: School Around the World, Book Spotlight, Education Partnership
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  • April 2021: Imagination, Book Spotlight, Fend Off Learning Loss
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  • September 2019: Change, Book Spotlight, Your Child's Brain
  • April 2019: Earth Day, Book Spotlight, Print vs. Electronic
  • November 2018: Folktales, Book Spotlight
  • November 2017: Screen Time Research, Book Spotlight
  • July 2017: The BookTree Effect, Book Suggestions
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  • February 2016: Brain Research, Book Ideas
  • December 2015: Pediatrician Policy, Book Ideas, Read-Aloud Tips
  • September 2015: Spanish, Book Ideas, Read-Aloud Tips

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  Learn more about early literacy, children’s literature, and reading aloud to children.

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Teaching Your Child To Read

• Reading with Miss Amanda
  The Reading with Miss Amanda series adapts Montessori philosophy to provide children the ability to decode words and gain the confidence to read on their own. This unique approach makes it fun and accessible for parents to work with their children on reading skills. Children receive intuitive step-by-step lessons simply by following the dialogue of the teacher in the books. Offers levels for pre-readers (3 years and up), beginners (4 years and up), and advanced readers (5 years and up).

Parenting Resources

• JAMaROO Kids
  The San Francisco Bay Area's leading provider of children's enrichment programs, offering dance, music, yoga, art, storytime, and bilingual classes at over 100 schools and other locations.
• GaGa Sisterhood
  An organization of enthusiastic grandmas with the mission to explore grandmotherhood in today's world, share wisdom and resources that enrich family life, and inspire grandmas with creative ideas for connecting with grandchildren.

15+ Years of SF Bay Area Education Partnership

• Schools served since 2010 and before: Adda Clevenger School, Alta Plaza Preschool, Big City Montessori School, Bowman School, Cow Hollow School, Genentech's 2nd Generation SSF, Glen Oaks / Burlingame Montessori, JCC SF Preschools, JCC San Rafael Preschool, Millbrae Montessori School, Montessori Children's House of the West Coast, Montessori House of Children, Montessori School of Central Marin, Old Firehouse School Mill Valley, Peninsula Temple Sholom Preschool, Peter's Place, Phoebe Hearst Preschool, SLS, SF Bay Area Bright Horizons, The Serra Preschool, Tiny Giants.
• Schools served since 2015 and before: Calvary Nursery School, Casa dei Bambini, Children's House of Los Altos, Chinese American International School, Congregation Beth Sholom Family Preschool, Curious Minds Learning Center, Hilldale School, HolaKids, La Scuola Italian International School, Mission Montessori, Montecito Preschool, Nurture And Nature, One Fifty Parker School, Playschool, Presidio Knolls School, Redwoods International Montessori, Slippery Fish, Stanford Arboretum Children's Center, Stretch the Imagination, The Little School, University Heights Montessori, Ventana School, Woodside Parents Nursery School.