Maintaining accurate daily attendance is important and necessary to keep the children safe. The last thing that any parent wants to hear from a teacher is that “they do not” or “did not know” where their child was for any period throughout the day. The teacher or assistant in each classroom should always know theContinue reading “Maintaining Daily Attendance in the Classroom”
Tag Archives: Early Childhood
FREE Shape Guessing Handout
Patterns and shapes are great things to learn in early education. With this two page free downloadable resource, it takes away the work you have to do to provide a fun and educational game for children. Here’s how it works. Print off the page and have children guess which shape goes into the space withContinue reading “FREE Shape Guessing Handout”
Early Childhood Socialization
The socialization process prepares children to function in an appropriate and acceptable manner within their society. Socialization is a process through which parents, teachers, and others in a child’s life provide them with the necessary guidance to promote their social behavior. This guidance is provided in verbal and non-verbal actions to situations including both positiveContinue reading “Early Childhood Socialization”
Transition Time
Transition times are important to the overall flow of the classroom. Whenever a caregiver says to me “I have such a hard time getting the children to sit down for lunch or to clean up before we go outside” My first question is what is your transition activity? Teachers and children should have a segueContinue reading “Transition Time”
Introducing Diversity into the Classroom
Diversity is important because early childhood classrooms are becoming more diverse in various ways: Cultural, racial, physical, religious beliefs, languages, and family dynamics to name a few. However, I feel that there is not always adequate diversity displayed and shared with young children. At this point, we as early childhood educators have to ask ourselvesContinue reading “Introducing Diversity into the Classroom”