Volume 6 Issue 2 Page 1 of 2
Summer 2006
News & Updates
From the President's Desk...
Wendy Sachs, founder and president of TPNN, has been asked to fill a vacant seat on the INA Board of Directors, which she has accepted. Sachs has been a past Board member, as well as Secretary, Treasurer, and President for four terms--all over a 10-year period. She is the first INA member to return to the board after leaving.
"I am really happy to be involved with the INA again. I think it plays an important role in educating parents, agencies and caregivers, and provides a much-needed forum for issues and questions particular to the in-home child care industry," Sachs says. "Projects like the Nanny Credential Exam, created by the INA, have been crucial in setting national standards to an unregulated industry."
This past year Sachs was also involved with the Nanny of the Year Task Force, whose responsibility was to update and clarify the selection process; Sachs then served on the 2006 Nanny of the Year Selection Committee.
Going to the beach this summer?
Make some extra money
this summer by signing up for BeachTemps©, our new babysitting service
for families at the beach. Call or e-mail Jill Walters to let her know
when you will be at the shore.
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Kid's Website Corner
Education-World.com Although a sample of its selections are shown at right, a website like this deserves more investigation. Aside from its own reading list, it provides lists from schools around the country and even the world! A great resource for summer reading and more. www.education-world.com/summer_reading/
MaMaMedia.com There is definitely something for everyone at this wacky website. Join clubs, send "kooky cards," create a rock star and more. All in a colorful, kid-friendly format. Be sure to turn your speakers on.www.mamamedia.com
Dreading those rainy days this summer? Try these great summer reading selections.
Every educator knows it. Summer reading is essential for kids!
Reading experts note that most young readers suffer a backslide in reading skills during summer downtime. But that needn't be the case. You can make reading a priority during the summer months, and children will learn that people never take a vacation from learning.
The above excerpt and following books are samples from Educator World ® Curriculum's Summer Reading List, as well as other schools' lists. See the Kid's Website Corner for details.
Preschool, prekindergarten, kindergarten
To be a Kid , by
Maya Ajmera. Text and photographs
from countries around the world illustrate some of the activities children
everywhere have in common.(from the HAISLN Recommended Reading List 2006)
First & Second Grade
Is Your Mama a Llama? by
Deborah Guarino, Steven Kellogg (illus.). A young llama is curious
-- are all his friends' mamas llamas? Each animal tells Lloyd facts about
its mother, and Lloyd -- along with young readers -- guesses what kind
of animal each mother is.
Third & Fourth Grade
The Indian in the Cupboard , by
Lynne Reid Banks, Brock Cole (illus.) The first book in this best-selling
series begins with young Omri receiving an old family wooden medicine cupboard
as a birthday gift. Given to him by his mother in order to house his plastic
toy soldiers, the cupboard has a magical power: It can bring Omri's toys
to life .
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