Early Childhood
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Lights, Camera, Action! How to Integrate the Performing Arts into Your Early Childhood Classroom
Performing arts is a subject that kids tend to either love or hate. Many teachers and parents will allow kids to avoid performing and ... -
Never Too Small to Play: Designing Inclusive, Sensory-Rich Playgrounds for Children Birth to 5!
Playing and allowing children to express their creativity is an important part of growing up. But how do you know when to start allowing ... -
Challenging Gender Stereotypes in the Early Childhood Classroom
Although research shows that while most parents agree that children should be treated the same regardless of gender in early childhood, they still treat ... -
Making Sense of the Senses: How Limiting Children’s Physical Movement Exacerbates Challenging Behaviors
We all know that exercise is beneficial for our health. Everyone knows it’s better to walk than to take a cab, take the stairs ... -
Using Picture Books to Help Children See and Talk About Math All Around Them
The use of cross-curricular tools can help children absorb and retain new knowledge better, and can help make learning challenging subjects less frustrating. Using ... -
Welcoming Children Who Are Gender Fluid Into Our Early Childhood Spaces
Children are not born knowing their own gender. They learn to embrace gender stereotypes based on what they see and experience from other children, ... -
Sensory Science: Connecting Children’s’ Science Learning to Their Sensory Play
Sensory play is any activity that stimulates one or more of a child’s five senses: sight, smell, touch, taste, and hearing. Different forms of ... -
Blocks, Rocks, and Robots: Nurturing Computational Thinking in Early Childhood
Computational thinking can be related to computers and computer science, as its name would suggest. But, more broadly, computational thinking is the ability to ... -
Integrating Self-Regulation Strategies into Classroom Routines and Activities to Support Children’s Learning
How often have we, as teachers, felt that a significant portion of instructional time was wasted because of poor student behavior? Our instructional time ... -
How to Connect Early Geometry to the Real World?
Applying early geometry and spatial reasoning skills in the real world is critical in the development of general mathematics skills. Many early education and ...
