I’ve been using this Einstein quote a lot lately:
It’s OK NOT to Share Section 1: What’s This Talk About Stealing Play?
Get Ready to Read Along!
It’s time!
There’s been such a great response to the selection of Heather Shumaker’s book, It’s OK Not to Share and Other Renegade Rules for Raising Competent and Compassionate Kids (*affiliate)
Preschool Thematic Unit: Pets
Whether you’re looking for activities as a full-time teacher, a group of co-opting preschool parents, or a parent with curious kids and an afternoon to fill, you’re in the right place! Find more Thematic Units here!
Hot Topic: Is Preschool the Place for Play or for Academics?
There’s a long, worn-out battle over whether preschool should be play-based or academics-based. The argument goes round and round with one side accusing the other of ignoring proper child development, or failing to prepare children for the future, or selling cute little puppies to make fashionable fur coats.
4 Ways to Keep Toddlers Entertained While You Cook
If your toddler is anything like mine, you count yourself lucky to use the bathroom by yourself and emerge without finding lipstick on the carpet or a few books floating in the fish tank. How do they move so fast?
Remembering with Service
Have you ever wondered about including your children in remembering someone who has died?
On Developmentally Appropriate Practice….And Why We Don’t Push Kids Down the Stairs
Toddlers can’t walk down the stairs with alternating steps. They just can’t. While your kindergartener bounds down the stairs taking each step in stride (or several in one super-hero bound, as mine is prone to do), your toddler will cling to the wall or rail as she takes a careful step down with one foot, then brings the other foot to that same step to stand firmly before venturing down in that same slow, tentative manner for another (step together), then another (step together), then another (step together).
Thematic Unit: The Night Sky, Astronauts, and Outer Space
Whether you’re looking for activities as a full-time teacher, a group of co-opting preschool parents, or a parent with curious kids and an afternoon to fill, you’re in the right place! Find more Thematic Units here!
A Learner’s Creed
Remember my brilliant niece? She’s now hitting the university grind as a future engineer. For one of her classes she was asked to create a mission statement as a learner. What she came up with inspired me, and I hope it does the same for you: [Read more…]
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