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Great Resources for Songs for Kids

Each week in my class, we have a circle time where we sing lots of great songs that toddlers love. Circle time is a lot of fun for the children in the room and for the parents, but beyond that, singing...

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Mixed Age Play

I’m working now on a longer post about the benefits of multi-age classrooms. (To be posted September 2) but I wanted to share some observations from my recent personal experiences with multi-age play....

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Nature Connection Pyramid

i like this infographic from the Nature Kids’ Institute, which gives “recommended daily allowances” style of recommendations for getting your child outside. (They have a free five part series of short...

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Great New Resource for Kids Songs

Let’s Play Music is a phenomenal resource! http://www.letsplaykidsmusic.com/free-kids-songs-directory/ The site is developed by Sara Mullett, who has 15 years of experience teaching kid’s music...

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47 Things You Should Never Say to Your Kids (or Their Heads Will Explode)

There’s an article by Parents Magazine  that I often see shared on the internet. It’s titled “10 Things You Should Never Say to Your Kids.” When I see that headline, I think of things like “You’re...

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Financial Literacy

On Sunday, I was teaching a class to a group of 9 – 10 year olds. We were talking about the roles that need to be played by various family members to help the family life run smoothly. I happened to...

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Teaching about Differences and Appreciation of Diversity

  Young children love to sort things by color, or by shape, or by type (e.g. car or train?). They make sense of their world by seeing how things fit into categories. And in most cases, we encourage...

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47 Things You Should Never Say to Your Kids (or Their Heads Will Explode)

There’s an article by Parents Magazine  that I often see shared on the internet. It’s titled “10 Things You Should Never Say to Your Kids.” But the article is not about obviously harmful phrases like...

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Screen Time: Making it Work for your Family

Screen time no longer means just TV in the living room. We now have DVD players, computers and video games at home, and tablets and smart phones we carry all day everywhere we go. And kids get lots of...

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Time to go wading!

What could be better on a hot day than wading in a cool creek? It’s cool, the sound of the water is relaxing, it’s building big motor skills (staying balanced on uneven ground), small motor skills...

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