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Welcome to the January 20, 2012 edition of Earlychildhood NEWSlink for early childhood educators and child care professionals, where you'll discover great ideas for your classroom!
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Music for Learning
Featured Song for January: "Whatever the Weather"
You'll find downloadable MP3 files from award-winning Miss Jackie Silberg. Lyrics included! And don't miss the correlating activities for your center!
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How to Get a School Grant
A Critical Two Months for Grant Writers
The New Year has begun. It is typically a long grind from now until spring break. It is an excellent time to make progress with your students. You should have few distractions and no extended holidays. It is also probably the very best time of the year to write grants for your district, campus, or classroom. During January and February you have more flexibility as a grant writer than at just about any other time of the year. Why? Read more. |
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Circle Time
Insta-Snow® Is Great for Indoor Activities!
Hello! I'm Regina Eardley, Discount School Supply® Account Manager for South Texas. I've been working with children and art for more than 15 years, and I have found many art materials that children really enjoy. But I think that Insta-Snow® creates Insta-Fun! Read more. |
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Topics in Early Childhood Education
Things Are Not Always As They Appear!
I had the opportunity to spend some of the holiday season in Kaua'i. On that island there is an amazing wonder called Waimea Canyon. It is considered the Grand Canyon of Hawaii. Indeed when we went to see it, I was shocked that this amazing canyon was hiding on an island. That portion of the island was not as it appeared from a distance. Read more. |
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Miss Jackie Silberg's Inspirations
Watch This!
These games will help to grow the brains of infants and toddlers. Whether it's through singing, dancing, cuddling, rocking, talking, smelling, or tasting, you can encourage the pathways of their brains to make new connections. Learning Objective - Developing positive emotional stimulation. Think of all the different places that are good for watching. When babies can watch things move, they are happy. A front-loading washing machine or dryer is fun for babies to watch. Read more. |
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Discussions Regarding POCET™
What Other Words Have a Beginning Sound to Match Your Name?
Preschool Activity QuickSource® reminds us that language is all around us and that by engaging children in conversations, we expose them to new words and support their developing language skills. By "encouraging expressions of thoughts, feelings, and opinions through words, you lay the foundation for a child's later reading success." Read more.
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Teaching Children with Special Needs
Determining a Child's Disability Level
While properly categorizing a child's disability does not in and of itself help the child directly, proper classification can be useful in determining just how much help parents and teachers need to provide a child. Usually disabilities are divided into four levels: none, mild, moderate, and severe. An undertsanding of the level of a child's disability is absolutely essential when preparing that student's IEP (individualized education program) or when helping the child to develop new skills. Read more. |
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Faith-Based Teacher
It's a New Year
Our first week back at school and our theme is The New Year. I thought long and hard about how I wanted to help my kids understand that we are now in a new year and the old year is gone. Being four years old, they really can't grasp the "New Year" concept so I decided we would go with celebrating the old things we still love and the excitement of discovering new things. Read more. |
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Sharin' with Sharron
Put Your Best Foot Forward in 2012
A study just published this month in "Pediatrics," the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics, found that kids spend about 70%-83% of their time in child care being sedentary, not counting the time spent eating and napping. Only 2% to 3% of the time is spent in vigorous activities. Educators know vigorous activity is important to children. But they cited several barriers, including concerns about injuries, focus on academics and limited outdoor space and playground equipment. Read more. |
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Art & Creativity in Early Childhood Education
The Fine Art of Scribbling
Children's scribbles were once conceived of simply as practice for "real drawing," but educators today recognize that scribbling is an important step in child development. Scribbling is the foundation of artistic development and is intimately linked with language acquisition. Young children love to scribble and adults will enjoy it too, if you give them permission to "let loose with a crayon." So, as I pondered what to address in my first post of 2012, it seemed like a good idea to start at the beginning - with the scribble stage. Read more. |
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Stay informed with these pertinent news stories.
New Calculation: Math in Preschool
Evidence is mounting about the importance of teaching math in preschool and kindergarten. Research has shown that if children don't have good instruction and effective teachers in early grades, they are more likely to struggle later when they face more complicated concepts.
Read more.
Self-esteem Boosting is Losing Favor to Finer-tuned Praise
Attempts to boost students' self-esteem by praising minor achievements have not improved academic achievements, researchers say. Some teachers say they are abandoning unearned praise in favor of methods that reward "persistence" and "risk-taking." Some experts say this type of praise leads students to embrace challenges and work harder. Read more.
New Guidelines Double the Amount of Vitamin D Recommended for Children
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is doubling the amount of Vitamin D it recommends for infants, children and adolescents. The new clinical report says that all children should receive 400 international units (IU), of Vitamin D, or the equivalent of drinking four 8-ounce glasses of fortified milk every day. Read more.
Study Suggests Preschoolers Need More Physical Play Time
Three-fourths of preschool-age children in the United States attend child care, and many are not getting enough outdoor physical activity, which may be due in part to parental and societal values about injury prevention and kindergarten readiness. Read more.
HighScope ReSource News Magazine - Winter 2011-2012
ReSource is a guide to the activities, products, and services of the HighScope Foundation. This edition features HighScope and Head Start: Friends After All These Years. The new Head Start standards and the updated HighScope Curriculum share a common purpose. Read more.
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Edible Ladybug
(submitted by Jessica Sommerville)
Paper Plates
Apples, cut in half
Peanut butter (or other nut butter of your choice)
Chocolate chips or raisins
Marshmallows
Pretzels
Give each child a paper plate and half an apple. Show the children an example of a ladybug that you have previously assumbled. You may take the opportunity at this time to discuss ladybugs, particularly if the children have not seen one before. Allow children to create their own ladybugs as they wish with the materials provided. younger children may need assistance and/or a demonstration of how to assemble their ladybugs.
Category: snack
Nutritional Information: 1 serving
*Nutritional information will vary, depending on materials used to assemble ladybug
Calories - 175
Total fat - 10.1 g
Fiber - 4.6 g
Protein - 6.1 g |
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