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Look, listen, touch, taste and smell are often taken for granted. Yet these senses are pivotal to learning complex tasks. Sensory play helps children to build skills in cognitive growth.

By: Diane Kashin, Ed.D, RECE. Dramatic play is one of the most important forms of play (Smilansky & Shefatya, 1990). Children enjoy and will do it spontaneously. It supports them in combining t…

Gov. Kay Ivey said during her inauguration that education would be a top priority.

The Growing Place will build an addition to add 39 new spots for ages birth to 3. The Humboldt daycare and preschool center was among 52 organizations across the state to receive a total of $43 million in grants to increase child care capacity. HUMBOLDT — At The Growing Place, the number 39 seems

THE Princess of Wales laughed off a tiny baby’s surprise burp telling the ten-week-old tot “well done you”. Kate, 41, shared stories with new mums and health visitors benefit…

Most speech-language pathologists agree that increasing family participation in treatment increases children’s success in communication. The tricky part is how.

Conservatives cheer and liberals jeer New York psychoanalyst Erica Komisar’s book on the science of early childhood development.

Jeez Louise was written in during the spring semester of 2015 for an early childhood development class.

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Have you ever written a classroom grant? Writing grants may seem daunting, but here are 5 tips to meant to help you write a successful grant.

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Its a Cajun Tradition many of us take for granted, the art or science of pocking Easter eggs with friends and family on Easter Sunday. Pocking eggs is a

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

In this no prep activities packet, students will practice the following opposites: happy and sad, large and small, day and night, inside and outside, short and tall, full and empty, above and below and front and behind.They will also determine which one is different and which one goes together. These worksheets work well for preschool, kindergarten, special education, autism and speech and language therapy. Your students may also enjoy some of my other fine motor resources: Tracing Activities Back to School/Fine Motor Activities DIGITAL COMPATIBLE:  Through Easel Activities, this product contains an INTERACTIVE PDF. You will be able to annotate and customize it for your distance learning needs. Underlying content is not editable. Your students will complete the digital PDF and submit it to you for review via Google classroom. You may also email or share the printable version with parents over the internet on a password protected website. It may not be shared on sites publicly found and downloaded. Please see the new more flexible distance learning TERMS OF USE during this Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic, For complete terms of use, PLEASE click Here. ********************************************************* Please click on the STAR above to "Follow Me" and receive updates on new products and free downloads. Please leave feedback to earn TPT credits that can be used on future purchases. For more no-prep/low prep cut and paste worksheets, file folders, math, puzzles, coloring pages, life skills products and more, visit my store. Smalltowngiggles Follow me on Facebook. Smalltowngiggles Follow me on Pinterest. Pinterest And if you have time here is a link to my blog. Small Town Giggles Thank you, Rose Hascall Smalltowngiggles ~~~~Purchasing this product grants permission for use by one teacher in his or her own classroom. If you intend to share with others, please purchase an additional license for each teacher at the significantly discounted additional license price when you checkout. ~~~~ Copying any part of this product and placing it on the Internet in any form (even a personal/classroom website) is strictly forbidden and is a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). You may NOT post any of my products on school websites or online anywhere. All products are for single buyer use only and not for commercial use. Thank you for shopping my store.

The Every Student Succeeds Act locks into law a $250 million grant program to support states as they develop preschool programs and directs money to state early-childhood literacy efforts.

Do you have students who struggle to sit at their desks? If so this post is for you! This year, we started the school year with several students who struggled to sit at their desks, let along do desk work and participate in classroom activities. As my colleagues and I began to brainstorm how we can help these students, we began reading about the Flexible Classroom. In taking this concept a step further, I began to think about students with Autism. Many students with Autism have overwhelming sensitivities and preferences within their environment. For example, one of my little gals hates hard surfaces, every morning when we start group she resists joining us. For several reasons, number one their are too many people, number two it can be too loud and unpredictable, and number three she hates being confined to a desk with a hard cold chair. By the way I didn't come up with this conclusion just by watching her behavior, I also had a little help from Naoki Higashida after reading his book, The Reason I Jump. In the book Naoki shares many examples of why children with Autism have certain preferences and unusual behaviors. After reading it, I had an overwhelming sense that our students with Autism do the best they can in each moment but sometimes the environment is just too much! By offering alternative seating, we can take some of the discomfort and hardship away so they can perform even better in each moment. For example for the little girl I described above, we introduced several different chair options. In doing so we learned that she prefers to sit in soft chairs that have some give and allow her body to sink in. We started allowing her to use a Saucer Chair pulled up to her desk. The chair itself was super comforting for her but when pushed up to the desk, she wanted nothing to do with it so instead we offered her a Big Joe Chair from Wal-Mart. It worked like a charm but was not conducive to being pushed up to a desk so I bit the bullet and removed her desk completely. I say bit the bullet because this was a big step for me. I am very type A and I want everything to be in perfect harmony. By having one student sitting on the floor in a different seat than her peers what would others think, how would that look. But after getting over my own personal feelings the chair turned out to be the best thing ever! The student is now able to participate in group comfortably and share what she knows in a whole group setting. Her verbal skills have started to blossom in front of her peers and she is able to manipulate the Smart Board and use her morning lap book more consistently. Prior to adding the chair, she would either hum loudly, chew on her chewy and stim or be so overwhelmed by the whole experience that she would request a break. Now she is participating at a level equal to her peers, especially since we added this velcro white board to use as a table top for her to write. (To make it my husband purchased a White Panel Board from Home Depot and cut it to size, then I added heavy duty soft velcro on the chair and hard on the back of the board.) We still work on in seat desk behavior other times throughout the day as we know at some point she will be in a general education classroom and other environments where flexible seating is not available for one reason or another. But we no longer expect in seat desk behavior from her during large and small group activities because at this time these activities are hard enough without adding the element of a desk. Instead we expect in seat desk behavior during preferred activities such as looking at alphabet books and using the iPad. Over time the success of sitting at a desk for preferred activities will hopefully generalize to other activities throughout her day. Until Next Time, Happy Flexible Classroom Making! Lindy

A new Jerusalem study analyzes the effect of losing a parent or sibling in early childhood on educational achievement later in life.

In this no prep activities packet, students will practice the following opposites: happy and sad, large and small, day and night, inside and outside, short and tall, full and empty, above and below and front and behind.They will also determine which one is different and which one goes together. These worksheets work well for preschool, kindergarten, special education, autism and speech and language therapy. Your students may also enjoy some of my other fine motor resources: Tracing Activities Back to School/Fine Motor Activities DIGITAL COMPATIBLE:  Through Easel Activities, this product contains an INTERACTIVE PDF. You will be able to annotate and customize it for your distance learning needs. Underlying content is not editable. Your students will complete the digital PDF and submit it to you for review via Google classroom. You may also email or share the printable version with parents over the internet on a password protected website. It may not be shared on sites publicly found and downloaded. Please see the new more flexible distance learning TERMS OF USE during this Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic, For complete terms of use, PLEASE click Here. ********************************************************* Please click on the STAR above to "Follow Me" and receive updates on new products and free downloads. Please leave feedback to earn TPT credits that can be used on future purchases. For more no-prep/low prep cut and paste worksheets, file folders, math, puzzles, coloring pages, life skills products and more, visit my store. Smalltowngiggles Follow me on Facebook. Smalltowngiggles Follow me on Pinterest. Pinterest And if you have time here is a link to my blog. Small Town Giggles Thank you, Rose Hascall Smalltowngiggles ~~~~Purchasing this product grants permission for use by one teacher in his or her own classroom. If you intend to share with others, please purchase an additional license for each teacher at the significantly discounted additional license price when you checkout. ~~~~ Copying any part of this product and placing it on the Internet in any form (even a personal/classroom website) is strictly forbidden and is a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). You may NOT post any of my products on school websites or online anywhere. All products are for single buyer use only and not for commercial use. Thank you for shopping my store.

“We must start building a world that puts the youngest in society first.”

Proud to announce that I have my Masters’ Degree in Early Childhood Education from the University of Colorado-Denver, and have learned so much throughout the process! During my studies, IR…

Maryland’s state education department has launched a $193 million grant program to support early childhood education and care.

While almost all public schools are eligible for a lot of grant money, those schools with the most disadvantaged populations are eligible for the most

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In this no prep activities packet, students will practice the following opposites: happy and sad, large and small, day and night, inside and outside, short and tall, full and empty, above and below and front and behind.They will also determine which one is different and which one goes together. These worksheets work well for preschool, kindergarten, special education, autism and speech and language therapy. Your students may also enjoy some of my other fine motor resources: Tracing Activities Back to School/Fine Motor Activities DIGITAL COMPATIBLE:  Through Easel Activities, this product contains an INTERACTIVE PDF. You will be able to annotate and customize it for your distance learning needs. Underlying content is not editable. Your students will complete the digital PDF and submit it to you for review via Google classroom. You may also email or share the printable version with parents over the internet on a password protected website. It may not be shared on sites publicly found and downloaded. Please see the new more flexible distance learning TERMS OF USE during this Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic, For complete terms of use, PLEASE click Here. ********************************************************* Please click on the STAR above to "Follow Me" and receive updates on new products and free downloads. Please leave feedback to earn TPT credits that can be used on future purchases. For more no-prep/low prep cut and paste worksheets, file folders, math, puzzles, coloring pages, life skills products and more, visit my store. Smalltowngiggles Follow me on Facebook. Smalltowngiggles Follow me on Pinterest. Pinterest And if you have time here is a link to my blog. Small Town Giggles Thank you, Rose Hascall Smalltowngiggles ~~~~Purchasing this product grants permission for use by one teacher in his or her own classroom. If you intend to share with others, please purchase an additional license for each teacher at the significantly discounted additional license price when you checkout. ~~~~ Copying any part of this product and placing it on the Internet in any form (even a personal/classroom website) is strictly forbidden and is a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). You may NOT post any of my products on school websites or online anywhere. All products are for single buyer use only and not for commercial use. Thank you for shopping my store.

Are you thinking about becoming a teacher? TEACH Grants can help you pay for college, but are they right for you? We'll take a look to help you decide.

New research examines how childhood socioeconomic disadvantages and maternal depression increase the risk of major depression and chronic pain when they become adults.

The children of participants in a 1960's experiment in early childhood education also reap the benefits—even if they didn't participate in such a program themselves.