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How to Prepare Your Child for Kindergarten Through Play
Starting kindergarten is so much more than learning letters and numbers. Through everyday play, children naturally build the confidence, independence, communication, and problem solving skills they need to thrive in the classroom. Discover how simple play experiences can help prepare your child for a successful transition to kindergarten.
The Ultimate Back-to-School Checklist: 13 Classroom Essentials You Need This Year
Getting ready for a new school year starts with creating an organized, engaging learning environment. From classroom storage and reading nooks to art stations, dramatic play furniture, and educational toys, discover 13 classroom essentials that help support independence, creativity, and meaningful learning in preschool and homeschool spaces.
10+ Back-to-School Organization Tips Using Smart Classroom Furniture
Thoughtfully designed learning spaces help children navigate their environment confidently, make independent choices, and engage more meaningfully with materials. Explore practical back-to-school classroom organization tips and classroom furniture solutions that support child-centered, constructivist learning.
Guidecraft Partners with Reforestation Nonprofit One Tree Planted
We care deeply about the planet and contributing to creating a better, healthier world for children and their families. As a company that strives to...
6 Steps to Set Up an Inviting Block Play Shelf
Setting up an organized, inviting block shelf is essential to facilitating meaningful play for children. By organizing blocks by shape and size on an open...
How to Bring Back Your Life’s Rhythms: Establishing Routines
image © shutterstock_1089847160 There’s no denying it—we are living in a new normal with families now living, working, and learning all together under one roof....
How to Bring Back Your Life’s Rhythms: Importance of Hideaways for Kids
For the past few months, the common thread of COVID-19 has changed all our lives. Through this change, we’ve discovered many things about our children,...
How to Bring Back Your Life’s Rhythms: Balancing Screen Time with Art Time
Increased screen time can have a great - and potentially detrimental - impact on young children's social, emotional and cognitive growth. Young children learn best...
How to Bring Back Your Life’s Rhythms: Captain of the Ship
There’s no doubt about it; we are living in a new norm in which the unpredictability of COVID-19 has left us with a mounting sense...
How to Bring Back Your Life’s Rhythms: Keeping Hands Busy
The world’s axis is tilted 23.5 degrees from the plane of its orbit around the sun and hasn’t changed significantly in the last 40,000 years....
Creating Nature-based Classrooms Webinar – Presented by Sandra Duncan and Jody Martin
When you think of the aesthetics of an early education classroom, what do you see? Brightly colored plastic toys. Shelves stacked high with lesson materials...
How to Design Inspiring Early Learning Spaces
When most people talk about designing an early childhood education program, they mean the curriculum, the funding, or the program. Not Dr. Sandra Duncan. When...
What Does Home Learning Look Like for Us?
I’m a mom. I’m an architect. I’m a teacher. Those roles have each taken precedence in my life in differing ways in the past. Sometimes...
Lauren Magee — mother of a 3-year-old, 7-year-old and 9-year-old, architect, and educator — has recently found herself in a situation familiar to parents around the world,...
Welcome to Lauren’s Learning Lab
Lauren Magee — architect, educator, and mother of a 3, 7 and 9-year-old — has recently found herself in a situation familiar to parents around the world, with...
The Kids Help Design Their Home Learning Space – Lauren’s Learning Lab
In this episode, Lauren Magee, an architect, teacher and mom, shares her process of engaging her 3-year-old, 7-year-old, and 9-year-old children in the design of...