Recognizing Signs of Anxiety: Even though childhood fears change with age, they will still include the fear of strangers, heights, darkness, animals, blood, insects and being left alone. Usually, an unpleasant experience can lead to a fear such as a cat…
Introduction to Anxieties and Fears: We as teachers and parents try hard to teach our children to be fearful and cautious of specific dangers like fire, touching the hot stove or crossing the road. These kind of things are ways…
9. Story Time is designed to help children develop an appreciation and enjoyment of literature through music, while reading activities enhance children's vocabulary and comprehension skills and also expands their knowledge base. I have always enjoyed doing: I’VE GOT…
8. Block Play Activities with Music allows children's experiences to grow with many different concept ideas such as shape and size, discrimination, colors, space, number skills, balance, organization, and classification. It also promotes cooperative play skills, problem solving and creativity.…
7. 5 Senses Young children learn through their 5 senses; therefore, providing hands-on experience allows children to touch, see, smell, taste, and hear become important to develop. It takes an intricate interchange between brain and the five senses. Although babies…
6. Science Activities offer children many hands on opportunities for observation, exploration, investigation, making predictions and experimentation and in using Science Songs with animals, earth, environment, nature, food and nutrition, healthy habits, and the human body. Check out…
5. Music Activities help promote and encourage the children's listening skills, creative expression and social interaction. When music is used, children are able to explore sound, volume, tempo and rhythm. (There are many educational concepts taught through music out there that fit…
4. Dramatic Play Activities help children express themselves, practice life skills, improve social skills, increase self-esteem, build vocabulary and solve problems. Dramatic play is also a whole lot of fun! Other benefits of play in the classroom include: Physical: increase…
On Facebook, yeswelearnbydoing.com, we looked at the first two kinds: Circle-Time and Gross Motor Activities. The third kind is FINE MOTOR ACTIVITIES: The Fine Motor Activities help improve those small muscle development and eye hand coordination. Some common items used…
BLACKBOARD ACTIVITIES 1. XYZ - This activity is remarkable, as it teaches the beginning stages of reading left to right plus it converts a body sounds to a symbol. This means that two parts of the brain are used. The…