The Joys of Sand and Water Play

June 08, 2009

This week, we're taking a look back at our favorite Being Savvy posts from last summer. Grab your sunscreen, pull up a beach chair, and enjoy! Playing at the water's edge is just about every small child's idea of heaven. The wet sand and mud and muck and pebbles and rocks and shells and creatures and seaweed and plants and twigs and whatever

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The Wonder of Water Play!

June 09, 2009

This week, we're taking a look back at our favorite Being Savvy posts from last summer. Grab your sunscreen, pull up a beach chair, and enjoy!  Water is a tremendous and abundant element of the earth. It provides a sensory experience, connection to nature, and insight into the mysteries our world holds. Water play offers opportunity to develop

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Beach Games and Activities

June 10, 2009

This week, we're taking a look back at our favorite Being Savvy posts from last summer. Grab your sunscreen, pull up a beach chair, and enjoy! The thing we love best about the beach is that it's one of the few places where preschool types can entertain themselves for hours and hours, day after day. There's no need to organize activities. If you

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Vacation Memories and Mementos

June 11, 2009

This week, we're taking a look back at our favorite Being Savvy posts from last summer. Grab your sunscreen, pull up a beach chair, and enjoy! One thing we notice about our preschoolers on vacation (even more than during regular life) is what avid little collectors they are. As they relish days at the pool, games with cousins, or even your road

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Who Lives Under the Sea? A Marine Biology Primer for Preschoolers

June 12, 2009

This week, we're taking a look back at our favorite Being Savvy posts from last summer. Grab your sunscreen, pull up a beach chair, and enjoy! It is no small part of the giant wonders of the sea that it's just so, well, giant. Vast. Deep. Full to the point of teeming. And how on earth are we to make sense of any of this for our little

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