This month at DIEEC, we celebrated Children’s Book Week (CBW) by visiting early childhood education programs throughout the state to read to children and deliver books to their classrooms. It was so nice to be able to come out and read after COVID put CBW on hold for 2 years. Our theme for 2022 was incorporating math concepts into literacy. All of the books we chose had math concepts embedded in them. These concepts included counting, patterns, comparison, and more.

Many times we think of math and literacy as separate concepts but this does not have to be the case! Many of the skills that we want children to learn are all intertwined. Foundational math concepts are needed in everyday life and are an integral part of early childhood education.