About The 5 Senses-TASTE (Part 1)
The teacher was introducing a unit on "The Five Senses." The dialogue with the teacher and the three-to-four year olds went like this: …
EXPLORING THE EFFECTS OF MUSIC ON YOUNG CHILDREN AND SPECIAL NEEDS CHILDREN-PART 4
I HAD A SPECIAL NEEDS CHRISTMAS PROGRAM FOR PARENTS AND STAFF TO SEE. CATHY, A TALL, THIN SPECIAL NEEDS CHILD LIKED TO HUM "SILENT NIGHT," A GROUP OF 5-YEAR OLDS WITH A VARIETY OF SPECIAL NEEDS SANG MY LANGUAGE…
The Child’s Making Music Behavior-Part 3-Sharing How Music Influenced This Author and Children’s Thinking About Music!
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…
The Child’s Making Music Behavior-Part 2-What Does Music Do To Us?
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…
Seven Virtues for Our Children
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
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.…
On Stress About Children
TOP 8 STRESSORS FOR CHILDREN: Stressed-out parents! Yes, PARENTS stressed can rub off on kids, even when you the parents think they are hiding this. Morning mania! A chaotic AM routine (or lack of routine) can kick kids’ stress into…
More Rainy Day Games-Part 3-THE “UN-GAMES” and CLASSROOM RELAYS
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,…
More Rainy Day Games-Part 2-Alternative Outdoor Games
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…
The Importance of Pre-School SCIENCE – Part 3
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…