Tips for Parents

Name: Preschool Power Storytime
Start: 2024-12-23
End: 2024-12-23
Location: Rockford Public Library Downtown Branch

Are you looking for information about early childhood resources and programs available in the Rockford region? From everyday brain boosts for infants and toddlers to fun preschooler activities and parent support groups, Alignment Rockford is your early childhood resource. See below for our featured resources and other great topics to help support the experience of raising young children in Rockford.

Alignment Rockford is proud to lead the Ready to Learn initiative in Rockford, a collaboration of organizations and businesses committed to supporting and uplifting the experience of raising young children in Rockford.

Talk, Sing, Point with Preschooler

Talk, Sing, Point with Your Preschooler Tips for using the activities below: Activities can be done in the language that the parent is most...

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Talk, Sing, Point with Toddler

Talk, Sing, Point with Your Toddler Tips for using the activities below: Activities can be done in the language that the parent is most...

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Explore Through Movement and Play with Preschooler

Contributed by Harlem School District

Balance is essential for young children to learn how to walk and develop other important physical skills.

Explore Through Movement and Play with Baby

Contributed by Discovery Center Museum

Babies and toddlers love to fill up and empty out bins. So let’s create one they can use anytime!

Explore Through Movement and Play with Toddler

Contributed by Discovery Center Museum

Moving around like an animal is not only fun, but also builds gross motor skills, hand-eye coordination, language skills, and develops social and communication skills.

Explore Through Movement and Play with Toddler

Contributed by Discovery Center Museum

Block play teaches a lot of developmental skills. Toddlers can learn problem-solving, like how to make their tower taller without it falling down, and beginning math, such as comparison, balance, and symmetry.

Explore Through Movement and Play with Baby

Contributed by Discovery Center Museum

Babies and toddlers love to fill up and empty out bins. So let’s create one they can use anytime!

Maximize Love and Manage Stress with Baby

Contributed by National Alliance on Mental Illness of Illinois

Most of your life can benefit from routine- from how you begin your day all the way to your sleep schedule

Maximize Love and Manage Stress with Toddler

Contributed by National Alliance on Mental Illness of Illinois

Transitioning from one task to another can be difficult and who doesn’t like a good song? The stress of transition can be eased through music.

Maximize Love and Manage Stress with Preschooler

Contributed by National Alliance on Mental Illness of Illinois

The development of skills used to recognize, understand, and respond to appropriate boundaries and behavioral expectations is crucial.

Talk, Sing, Point with Baby

Contributed by Circles of Learning

While waiting in line at the grocery store or for your food at a restaurant, singing a quick song is a great way to talk, sing and point, and keeps your child busy.

Talk, Sing, Point with Toddler

Contributed by Circles of Learning

Whether you’re at home, outside, in a waiting room, or in the car, you can find items in your child’s view. Point to items and give them a name.