About The 5 Senses-TOUCH (Part 2)
TOUCHING Our sense of touch shows us the shape, size and "feel" of our world. We are kept SAFE by learning to avoid touching a burner or a flame, a sharp edge or point, very cold metal, ........ any other…
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: …
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…
THE CHILD’S MUSIC-MAKING BEHAVIOR-Part 1
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…
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.…
Important Points for Early Literacy
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…
Easy Games for Preschoolers
To understand the brain growth and development of preschoolers To learn how Preschool Education helps the preschooler To experience easy games for preschoolers Morning Greeting Activities In greeting, each child is welcomed by name. It aids to set a positive…
ALL ABOUT CHILDREN’S BEHAVIORS
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…
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,…