I have found myself having a sustained love and passion for music throughout my life, unlike anything else. When I think about how many songs have changed my life and how many more songs I haven’t heard yet that will…
Music has the capacity to: console us, to heal us, to inspire us. invites us to listen, to dance, to explore ourselves, to watch, and to participate. (I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again–Without it, I wouldn’t have…
Why Should We Spend Time Helping Preschoolers Discover Music? Here are a few important reasons: Dancing to music and making music helps release stress and energy. Music gives children a way to express their emotions. They're full of emotions they…
These 7 virtues are the most highly regarded values that contribute toward ethical decision-making and ethical decision-makers. Positive Mental Attitude-Mind – The mind is where our dominant thoughts are rehearsed. Our mental rehearsals contribute significantly to our character development. Since…
3 KINDS OF AWARENESS: Self-awareness is the most known type of awareness. This is the ability to understand and recognize your own thoughts, feelings, values, beliefs, and actions, and how they impact you, others and the children you work with daily.…
We are taught to make distinctions between words and pictures and to not think of them in the same way. We are taught that although we can gain meaning from each, reading words is valued more than reading pictures. If…
All children have behavior problems, some being harder to accept than others. Some of these behaviors can cause children to be aggressive, hostile and difficult to handle, which may emphasize their respective limitations. As you can imagine, behavior problems in…
UN-GAMES: Back To Back Tag – A student is selected to be IT. A special player is selected to be the crowbar. A group of students are selected for the game. Whenever students stand back to back with another player,…
Firefighter - Make two goal lines about twenty feet apart. One child is selected as fire chief. Four groups of four are given a number like 1, 2, 3, and 4. The fire chief calls out a number. Each…
SCIENCE ACTIVITIES - These are ideas to help enhance the importance of science for the pre-schoolers! Biological Science: (Teachers create an activity from the list) Observing animals and plants Observing ant farms, spider webs, other animal homes Providing care for…