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Create Your Classroom Schedule: Staff Planning Tool
A helpful reflection and planning worksheet for educators to map out their daily schedule, strengthen routines, and improve transitions. Great for new teachers, coaching, training, or refreshing cl... Read more
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Starting Solid Foods in Child Care: Tips for ECE Providers
A practical, easy-to-follow tip sheet for early educators introducing solid foods safely in child care settings. In early care and education settings, introduce solid foods when infants show develo... Read more
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Week of the Young Child Activities
Week of the Young Child activities celebrate young children's learning and development through play-based, hands-on experiences that spark curiosity and creativity. Popular activities include art p... Read more
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How to Work in a Daycare With No Child Care Experience
If you have no childcare experience, emphasize transferable skills like patience, communication, reliability, and any informal experience (babysitting, tutoring, volunteering) when applying for ent... Read more
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Dopamine in Children
Dopamine is a key neurotransmitter in children’s developing brains that helps regulate reward, motivation, attention, and motor control. Proper dopamine signaling supports learning, goal-directed... Read more
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Child Care Workforce Qualifications, Training, and Professional Development
The child care workforce requires clearly defined qualifications such as minimum education levels, background checks, CPR/first aid and early childhood credentials or state licensing to ensure care... Read more
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Universal Checklist and Cover Letter Form. Admin.
The Universal Checklist and Cover Letter Form is a highly versatile and essential tool for #administrators, as it provides a comprehensive checklist for various #administrative tasks and a standard... Read more
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Special Needs in Daycare: Supporting Communication
Daycares can support children with special needs by creating inclusive communication environments that use predictable routines, visual supports, and clear, simplified language. Implementing augmen... Read more
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Special Needs in Daycare: Behavior Support
Effective behavior support in daycare for children with special needs uses individualized, proactive plans that focus on understanding the purpose of behaviors and teaching replacement skills. Cons... Read more
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Special Needs in Daycare: Helping Children Join In
Daycares can support children with special needs by creating inclusive routines, adapting activities, and using visual supports so each child can participate at their own pace. Trained staff, stron... Read more
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Special Needs in Daycare: Inclusion Quick Tips
Create an inclusive environment by training staff in disability awareness, using predictable routines and visual supports, and arranging the space with sensory-friendly areas and accessible materia... Read more
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Fostering Healthy Social & Emotional Development in Young Children
Fostering healthy social and emotional development in young children begins with warm, responsive relationships that provide consistent routines, clear boundaries, and a sense of safety. Caregivers... Read more
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Holiday Inclusion Planning Guide
The Holiday Inclusion Planning Guide offers practical strategies and checklists to help organizations and communities create celebrations that welcome people of all cultural backgrounds, abilities,... Read more
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Child Care Infant and Children Weekly Meal/Menu Planner Template
The Child Care Infant and Children Weekly Meal/Menu Planner Template provides a structured weekly layout to plan nutritious breakfasts, lunches, snacks, and bottle/breastfeeding schedules for infan... Read more
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MLK Day Child Activity
On MLK Day, children can create a "dream" collage or kindness pledge cards inspired by Dr. King's message of equality and nonviolence. While making the projects, read a short age-appropriate story ... Read more
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Culture in Our Classroom
In our classroom, kid culture celebrates diversity and encourages every student to share their unique background and ideas. We practice respect, active listening, and kindness so everyone feels saf... Read more
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Child Physical Activity Checklist
The Child Physical Activity Checklist is a tool used to assess the physical activity levels of children. It includes questions about activities such as walking, running, and playing sports. The che... Read more
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Environmental Adaptations Checklist to Promote Child Participation
The Environmental Adaptations Checklist is a tool used to evaluate and promote child participation in various settings. By identifying potential barriers and modifying the physical environments, th... Read more
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Turkey Feathers Roll and Write Activity. Preschool. Literacy.
Turkey Feathers Roll and Write Activity is a fun and engaging way for preschoolers to practice their literacy skills. The activity involves rolling a dice and then writing number in word form as we... Read more
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Circle the number that matches
This engaging and easy-to-use printable is designed to help preschool and kindergarten-aged children develop early counting and number recognition skills. Children are presented with groups of obje... Read more
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Look at the picture, write the word, preschool
One of these activities involves looking at pictures and writing the corresponding words, which helps #develop their vocabulary and literacy skills. This interactive approach makes learning enjoya... Read more
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Hot Chocolate Counting Activity. Preschool. Math.
Hot Chocolate Counting Activity is a fun and engaging way for preschoolers to practice their math skills. With this activity, children can count the number of marshmallows and chocolate squares in ... Read more
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Matching Letter with Correct Picture
Matching letters with the correct pictures is an engaging activity that helps young learners associate sounds with visual representations. This exercise enhances their phonemic awareness and reinfo... Read more
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Make A Sentence With Pie Picture
"Make a Sentence with Pie Picture" is an engaging activity that encourages creativity and language skills. By using a picture of a pie, participants can craft sentences that describe the pie. This ... Read more
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