Every parent is familiar with the tyranny of a long distance drive with young children. The boredom causes their poor little attention spans to shrivel up to nothing and erupt in a cloud of complaints and pleas for some kind of distraction. Before long, the familiar refrain of “are we there yet?” starts erupting, raising [...]
As a 35-year veteran preschool teacher, I’ve worked through many theories about what makes for an effective setup of a learning environment. Today’s children have a wider exposure to technology and spend more time indoors. This influences their style of learning. We need to set up our areas considering the holistic child and individual children’s [...]
Separation anxiety is a reaction to the massive change that a child can experience leaving the consistency, comfort and safety of being with their parents. This can happen when children start preschool, as they are entering a new environment with unfamiliar people, routines and not knowing what is going to be expected of them. There [...]
I thought I’d tell you about one of the most fun activities for children - collages! I have included my tips below, accumulated over the course of my career, for how to set up a collage cart and the educational benefits of this activity. How to Set Up a Collage Activity and the Benefits of [...]
One of the most popular activities with children, in my experience, is threading. There is a lot of room for creativity with threading exercises; however, the most popular is making a necklace for themselves that they can keep and take home (e.g. using macaroni or buttons/beads that are low-cost), or getting parents to bring in [...]