This easy-to-use child developmental milestone chart provides clear and concise information on the important milestones reached in each significant age range (ages 2 years to 5 years). This is a valuable tool for early childhood caregivers/ teachers, parents, early-age educators, nurses, occupational therapists, speech-language pathologists, physical therapists, and many more. The milestone chart includes the following domains when categorizing developmental milestones: - Gross Motor Skills - Fine Motor Skills - Problem-Solving Skills - Self Help Skills - Social/Emotional Skills Additionally, this chart uses an updated, credible reference utilized across multiple professions. Equip yourself with this comprehensive guide to support and track the developmental progress of young children effectively.
Students pick apples, make apple treats, and learn while they play in this Preschool Apple Orchard Dramatic Play area.
Pre-Writing Activity Pack for toddlers and preschoolers ages 2-4 featuring fun tracing worksheets to help develop prewriting skills.
At Teach Starter, we are committed to providing resources that assist teachers in embedding the cross-curriculum priority of Aboriginal and Torres Strait...
Number Dots are a fun way for preschoolers to practice many skills while learning to identify numbers. They're also simple to set up!
Arrival and Classroom Jobs in an Early Childhood Classroom
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Do you use a behavior chart in your classroom? Here one teacher shares why she believes EITHER method has merit - depending on your students.
This continues our series learning about Jesus. This is week 6 in the fourth quarter of a year of Preschool Bible Study that I assist wit...
This free interactive numbers book will help your preschooler recognize numbers and learn to count objects up to 10.
St Nicholas Early Education is our region’s leading provider of child-led, play-based early education and care for children aged 0-5.
It’s not just another classroom with neutral colours, stones, and baskets. We live in Muskoka and our environment as the third teacher reflects our culture of living and how we encourage chil…
6 Pre-writing activities for kids (toddlers & preschoolers ages 2-5) using straight lines, circle shapes, squares, rectangles, cross shapes and diagonal lines.
Watch how I transform my toddler and preschool classroom design from scratch, getting it ready for open house!
First published July 2011. Updated 2018. I’m going to sound a bit like a textbook right now. I’m sorry. Bear with me. You’ll be glad you did…I hope. :) I was taught in my early childhood courses that there are 6 domains of early childhood development. I say there are 7, but we’ll get...
Learn how to incorporate awesome and easy creative movement activities into your music class. Read this post for tips and ideas!
Looking for preschool music that helps energetic kids? This collection is perfect for getting those wiggles out, especially when stuck indoors!
These 11 file folder activities work on recognizing, matching and sorting shapes. Real objects are included to help students generalize shapes in the real world. Perfect for special education classrooms of all ages or early childhood education. File folders are laminated with 3 mil and pieces to attach are thicker 5 mil. Velcro dots are used to attach pieces to and from the file folders. (note: There are two options when purchasing. Fully prepped is as seen in the pictures above where everything is cut out and ready to use. Half prepped involves cutting out the pieces from the lamination and trimming the laminate on file folders. Velcro Dots are included.) 11 of most common 2D shapes and 6 3D shapes are included. 2D Shapes ✔Shape Match – match identical shapes (11) ✔Shape Words – match shape to its word ✔Circle or Square – sort real life objects ✔Triangle or Diamond – sort real life objects ✔Rectangle or Oval – sort real life objects ✔Shape Sort – sort identical shapes and real life objects 3D Shapes ✔Shape Match – match identical shapes (6) ✔Cube or Sphere – sort real life objects ✔Pyramid or Prism – sort real life objects ✔Cones or Cylinders – sort real life objects ✔Shape Sort – sort identical shapes and real life objects
When I am teaching colors to my students at the beginning of the school year, I start each lesson with one of these books. Here are my favorite color books.
Use this chocolate sauce Bible Lesson to teach about sin and salvation. Pour a little into your hand. It's sticky, it spreads, and it's like sin.
Gross motor literacy activities that get kids moving. Combining literacy and movement together is a great way for kids to have fun while learning.
Proven strategies that help in the early grades.
35 fun name activities for preschoolers that are perfect for that 3-5 year old range to work on recognizing and spelling their name.
Check out these fun spider activities for your preschool and pre-k classroom. These are perfect if you are teaching spider theme, Halloween theme, or October unit and lesson plans. You will find
In this post, you'll find information about the preschool years, including 3 year old milestones all the way up to 5 year old milestones!
All the projects for the Beatitudes in this post are intended for preschool or kindergarten. I have simplified (a lot) the Blessed are......
This article is an interesting look for early childhood teachers into a full day Kindergarten schedule that still incorporates play!
Here is a collection of the absolute best rhyming songs for kids! They're perfect songs to teach rhyming in home or in the classroom.
Here are some free printables to help you make an apple counting book for your kids. Kids will enjoy reading this fun numbers book because it features pictures of them. Perfect for your apple theme,
These 51+ fun and easy camping crafts are perfect to get the kids excited about camping - preschoolers to big kids will LOVE these camp inspired activites!
There is scientific proof that states no 2 snowflakes are alike....this holds true for people as well. This weekend in my Alluem Kids 8-12 class we talked about the many differences between people....different shapes and sizes, different color hair and eyes, different skin tones, different voices, different likes and dislikes, different personalities...the list is endless. The kids know that these difference are what makes us unique - we each are different in our own special ways and we can embrace the beauty in that! I had the kids think about what makes them different from other people, what makes them unique. I wanted them to go deeper just the surface differences and to really look at what makes themspecial, what makes them who they are. I had them narrow it down to one word. One word to describe what makes them special. After they meditated on this, I laid out foam snowflakes all over the room. I was sure to make them all different...yes, I made adjustments to 25 little foam snowflakes so they would ALL be different! Each child picked one and wrote their word on the snowflake - Unique, Charitable, Enthusiastic, Friendly, Loving, Miracle, etc. When all the snowflakes were hung, they chose a pose that best related to the word they picked - Candlestick for Miracle, Tree for Charitable, Frog Jumps for Enthusiastic....I love watching them think so carefully about what they can do to best represent who they were. It really said a lot about their personalities. A great lesson for all!
Use any stickers you have on hand with our super cute free printable math activities for preschoolers to get kids excited about counting to 1-10.
Making Art on a Shoestring: Creating Crafts Using Recycled, Free and Cheap Materials. Ideas for all ages can be found here.
The Impact of Abuse and Neglect on the Developing Brain was originally written by Bruce D. Perry, M.D., Ph.D., and John Marcellus, M.D. You can find the article here: Scholastic . ________________ Each year in the United States alone, there are over three mi
Preschoolers love to knock things down. Why not channel that energy into learning? Play this Math activity with your preschoolers to help them learn their numbers and satisfy their desire to knock stuff over! To play this exciting preschool math activity you will need something to knock down like a bowling set or canisters from […]
Nonverbal Learning Disorders sometimes referred to as “right-hemisphere learning disorders” affect people of all ages. They often go unrecognized by parents, educators, and other professionals. As a result, people who suffer from these disorders are often misunderstood, misjudged, and branded with negative labels during their early childhood years. Problems can last a lifetime, without identification. Without appropriate identification, parents, teachers, and peers may significantly overestimate this person’s abilities, and place unrealistic demands on her, resulting in emotional problems and an increased risk for anxiety, depression, and even suicide. Nonverbal Learning Disability: What Speech-Language Pathologists, Professionals and Parents Need to Know is a course designed especially for Speech Language Pathologists (SLPs), and students in the field of Communication Disorders. Because SLPs are increasingly receiving referrals for students diagnosed with “nonverbal learning disorder” or NLD, it is necessary they become familiar with the disorder, understand it, and know how to both assess and treat it. In addition, professionals and parents who interact with people diagnosed with, or suspected of having a nonverbal learning disorder may also benefit from the information provided in this course. The 48 page course is a flexible, practical, and time-efficient guide for self-study. It consists of eight modules, each of which contains several pertinent articles, followed by a set of questions at the end of each article. The follow-up questions can be used in various ways, and exist to support the reader. For example, they can serve as a pretest to check current levels of understanding, they can be completed while reading the articles, or they can be used as a quiz to check understanding upon completion of the reading.