Do you remember how fun it was to scrunch along in piles of leaves? Do you remember how they smelled when you rolled in them? Do you remember how you used to marvel at their colors? Having young children around helps us to rekindle these feelings, thoughts and smells. Fall leaves are a natural and [...]
Living in Today’s Stressful World 3-Part Blog Series on Stress Part 1: Stress and Child Care Workers and Programs We are all living through a very stressful time in our country, and the world at large. There are a variety of mental health, situational, and economic issues that are leading to increased levels of stress [...]
Repost Now is the time you may be noticing ‘uninvited’ 6-legged guests in your kitchen, bathrooms or other areas. Most solutions to an ant invasion involve very toxic chemicals. Try the tip below if you are overrun by those pesky critters. Non-Toxic Ant Remedy Ingredients 1 – 72 ounce box of instant grits per acre [...]
Repost from August 2019 The Power Camp curriculum is a special resource from Early Learning Success, LLC that will help children develop 'positive personal power' to help them be successful in school, with peers, and in live. In this time of social injustices, it is important that children learn how to support and celebrate everyone [...]
Children need direct teaching and lots of practice when learning new skills. Caregivers can model the behaviors that are expected, but sometimes they need to specifically talk about or demonstrate the new skill they want their children to learn. There are many great books that help caregivers talk with children about feelings and behaviors that [...]
'One Hundred and One Recipes for Fun' is a great collection of fun and messy recipes that can be integrated into your daily planning and activities. These are not my original ideas; I have compiled these recipes over many years of snipping from magazines, borrowing ideas from fellow caregivers, and searching through resource books and internet [...]
Post reprinted from April 2017 April 22 is Earth Day … a day when we clean up our parks, plant trees and flowers, and recycle cans and plastic bottles …. when we talk about how important it is to take care of our Earth. These are all great ideas but….. far too often they are [...]
Play is a very important part of early childhood programs, and should be a major component included every day! Children are learning through all of the activities in which they are involved. The early childhood educator play a variety of roles that enhance play, and ensure that it is ‘intentional and purposeful’. Early Childhood Educator [...]
As we are all concerned with the COVID19 virus outbreak, I wanted you to have the current information from Child Care Aware, the national organization for child care professionals. Please click on the link below to see the information they are sharing. https://info.childcareaware.org/blog/coronavirus-how-does-it-impact-child-care-providers-and-ccrrs Other things you can do is make sure you are following [...]
When I am pondering something, there are questions I ask myself in order to find an answer: • What • Why • How These questions work well when thinking about quality in early childhood education and care settings. Quality settings are key in helping children be ready for school. What does ‘setting the stage for [...]
