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Spring Preschooler Activities to Get Them Moving!
If you care for preschool-aged children, you understand the importance of keeping them healthy and happy. This includes helping them engage in physical activities. Spring is a wonderful time of year — the weather starts to get warmer and flowers … READ MORE
Fun Fine Motor Activities for Preschoolers
It’s never too soon to start thinking about your children’s educational development. Fine motor skills — like writing, dressing, and using utensils — play a vital role in everyday activities and are essential for children’s development. Fine motor skills are … READ MORE
How to Create a More Accessible Garden
Gardening creates so many opportunities for inquiring minds, and all children can benefit from working and learning in the garden. While there are many things to consider when planting a garden, one important aspect of your planning should include its … READ MORE
5 Life Skills Children Learn Through Gardening
Working in the garden creates a unique opportunity to introduce new or emerging life skills. Children are naturally curious about how the world works, and the garden is a perfect place to explore those curiosities. Help children get their hands … READ MORE
How Families Impact Educational Success
The most important teachers in a child’s life are their families at home. Although children spend a large amount of their time at school, it is not a replacement for the learning, love, encouragement, and reinforcement they receive from family … READ MORE
Outside Time: Friend or Foe?
I have one question to ask: As an early education teacher, do you see outside time as a friend or foe? Wrangling coats, hats, gloves, and other articles of clothing for winter outdoor play takes half of the scheduled time … READ MORE
The Need to Move: Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence
The perfect pirouette of a ballerina, the art of a sculpture, or the gravity defying layup of a basketball player. What do these three people have in common? They all possess bodily-kinesthetic intelligence. Howard Gardner defines bodily-kinesthetic intelligence as … READ MORE
Reasons to Get Outside…Even When it’s Cold
Noses are running, fingers are numb, and it takes lots of time and patience to get everyone bundled up to go outside and play on the playground equipment. When you finally do get outside, everyone’s ready to come back inside … READ MORE
Language Development on the Playground
Language development is one of the most important skills children learn through play. Children are learning how to interact with the world. They’re honing their ability to understand others and to express their thoughts, feelings, and needs. The preschool playground … READ MORE
5 Myths About Sensory Play
First, what is sensory play? Sensory play is play that engages children in activities that stimulate one or more of their senses. This includes sight, sound, touch, smell, taste, and movement. It creates an opportunity for children to learn about … READ MORE
