Home Hot Topics Articles Directors' Choice Awards About Us / Contact Us Activities & Curriculum Activities for Outcome-Based Learning Arts & Crafts Music for Learning Recommended Reading Sharing Boards: What Do YOU Think? NEWSlink Current National News Conference Calendar Topics In Early Childhood Education Art and Creativity in Early Childhood Education Job Sharing Board State Licensing Requirements Stay Connected! Each month we'll send you an email filled with articles and ideas for your classroom. Subscribe Now Date: 3/2/2007 2:50:00 PM Author: Amber (amteach@hotmail.com) Subject: challenging boys Try using puppets at circle to re-enact some of the behaviors you are frustated with..have the children help the puppets to solve the situation. This brings the whole group into the solution. Use books that have characters that do some of the things you are dealing with. The Dinofours series are excellent examples. Franklin books also work well. I find when I read a book that deals with behaviors that the children are familiar with they get quieter and quieter and then at the end they want to discuss it. Discussion should be encouraging not condemning. Also praising the children who are picking up sometimes works. "I like the way ___________is picking up today, what a great helper!" Praise the good behaviors in the challenging students too. Putting a toy into time out when it becomes an object of contention works too. Name: Email: Subject

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