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Early Brain Development

Social-emotional development includes the child’s experience, expression, and management of emotions and the ability to establish positive and rewarding relationships with others.

A child’s brain undergoes an amazing period of development from birth to three—producing more than a million neural connections each second, which provides the foundation for all future learning, behavior, and health.

Source Lee Lombardo LSCW

There's a Friend for little children
Above the bright blue sky,
A Friend who never changes
Whose love will never die;
Our earthly friends may fail us,
And change with changing years,
This Friend is always worthy
Of that dear name he bears. -Albert Medlane.

HOW TO DEAL WITH CHALLENGING BEHAVIOR

Although challenging behavior can occur in any classroom, research indicates that some children in urban communities experience conditions that contribute to risk factors for social and emotional delays. In addition, there is a specific need to support children who live in poverty, as children in poor families are twice as likely to be at risk for developmental, behavioral, and social delays as children in families earning 200 percent or more of the federal poverty line. That is, while 10–21 percent of all preschool children show challenging behaviors such as aggression, noncompliance, defiance, tantrums, and property destruction, 30 percent of children who live in poverty exhibit such behaviors (Voorhees et al. 2013). -NAEYC
1. Learn abut children's family
2.Develop and teach expectations
3. Develop and teach empathy
4.Perspective taking
5.Using group time to discuss conflict

We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.”
— Stacia Tauscher, dancer and artist

Common Core Standard

The major risk of any standards movement is that the
responsibility for meeting the standards will be placed on children’s shoulders rather than on the shoulders of those who should provide opportunities and supports for learning… Negative consequences potentially face children who fail to meet standards, because the data may be used to label children as educational failures, retain them in grade, or deny them educational services. Standards can also run the risk of being rigid, superficial, or culturally and educationally narrow. In the K–12 arena, at times standards have driven curriculum toward a more narrowly fact- and skill driven approach with a resulting loss of depth, coherence, and focus. In the early childhood field, this trend could undermine the use of appropriate, effective curriculum and teaching strategies.
—NAEYC

Happy New Year!!!

Here are 9 kindergarten readiness skills children need to learn.

•Shapes and Colors. Kids love colors
•Cutting
•Writing
•Letter Recognition
•Number Recognition and Counting
•Sounding out Letters
•Reading Readiness
•Following Directions & Paying Attention.
See! it's possible :)

Learning how to observe and draw what we see. Have you guessed it yet?? It's an avocado!

Here's how you can help your little ones solve a problem one step at a time!

Preschool Problem-Solving Discover five ways parents can help preschoolers develop problem-solving abilities.

Here is a short little clip about the Reggio Emilia, a practice that we use and every parent should know.

Reggio Emilia: in a nut shell A little animation about the Reggio Emilia Approach to early years education. Sorry about the very rushed animation, but I had to share this information (bec...

"she sells seashells on the sea shore." exploring the hot days with water play today with our collection of beautiful shells at
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Circles or Squares? Here are some tips for kids to learn their geometric shapes and terms!
https://www.naeyc.org/resources/pubs/tyc/apr2018/pattern-block-puzzles

Play Games, Learn Math! Pattern Block Puzzles | NAEYC