Phonemic Activities for the Preschool or Elementary Classroom This article features activities designed to stimulate the development of phonemic awareness in preschool and elementary school children. The activities originally appeared in the book Phonemic Awareness in Young Children: A Classroom Curriculum. Listening to sequences of sounds From chapter 3: Listening games Objective To develop the memory and attentional abilities for thinking about sequences of sounds and the language for discussing them. Materials needed Objects that make interesting, distinctive sounds. Activity In this game, the children are challenged first to identify single sounds and then to identify each one of a sequence of sounds. Once the children have caught on to the game, make two noises, one after the other. After the children have become quite good with pairs of noises, produce a series of more than two for them to identify and report in sequence. Variations With the children's eyes closed, make a series of sounds. Nonsense Book of familiar stories or poems Clapping names
How to Start a Daycare - Home Daycare - Daycare License - DaycareHotline.com 77 Educational Games and Game Builders I'm often asked if I know of any games for subject "x," "y," or "z" for a particular grade level or age group. My answer is usually yes, but I need to search my archives. Therefore, I've gone through my archives and dug up many of games that I've mentioned over the last four years that are still active online. 1. 2.Spin and Spell has been featured on a number of blogs over the last year. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. the World Food Programme's website offers students a large selection of educational online games and activities. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56.
What is digital literacy? Digital literacy is the topic that made the ETMOOC learning space so irresistible to me… I think as educators we spout off about wanting our students to be digitally literate, but not many of us (myself included) have a firm grasp about what that actually means, and quite a number of us are still attempting to become digitally literate ourselves. Whatever that means. It turns out, defining digital literacy isn’t such an easy task. The etmooc community was fortunate enough to hear Doug Belshaw speak on this topic in a recent webinar. Doug explained that digital literacy is quite ambiguous, and he doesn’t have all of the answers when it comes to defining these terms. 30 definitions of digital literacy represented in one of the first texts about the topic (from Gilster, published in 1998!!) trying to figure out what it is and how we can ensure our students are “digitally literate.” Doug shared this quote from his research (Martin, 2006): “Digital literacy is a condition, not a threshold.”
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The Importance of Focus | ChildCareExchange.com Reading Games Rearrange the letters to make a word. Use the clue below to help to reveal the mystery word. Rearrange the letters to make a word. Correctly spell the Back To School words below each picture. Match the words to the pictures. Correctly spell the Color words below each picture. It's Pacman with a twist. Read each clue. Practice your typing skills Winter style! It's color by Alphabet! Complete the crossword puzzle by typing the name of picture that appears by each row or column. Correctly spell the Autumn words below each picture. It's Pacman with a twist. It's color by Alphabet! How many words can you find in two minutes? Connect dots to make each letter of the alphabet from A To Z. It's color by Alphabet! Correctly spell the Winter words below each picture. Match the words to the pictures. Practice your typing skills Christmas style! Practice your typing skills Zombie style! Eat the letters in the correct order to spell each word. Look at the picture very carefully and find the hidden letters.
Learning to make good decisions and solve problems in early childhood This material is also available in PDF format: Learning to make good decisions and solve problems in early childhood [653KB] pdf Skills and qualities for making decisions (content changes below) There are certain qualities and skills that help children make thoughtful decisions. Parents and carers can help children develop these qualities and skills from birth by supporting the development of their: Self-esteem: to feel ok about themselves even when they go against what their group wants. Confidence: to be able to ask for information they need, to say "No" or to say what they want. What does problem solving involve? Most times, when children are making decisions they will not use all the problem-solving or decision-making skills suggested below. Managing feelings If a situation is upsetting, children first need to be aware of and able to manage their feelings. Working out what the problem is At any time we all hear, see and feel many more messages than we can attend to.
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Attachment attachment; separation; bonding; secure; infant; baby; relationship; mother; sleep; bond; crying; parent; carer; father; ; Attachment is the strong, long lasting bond which develops between a baby and his or her caregiver. This enables a baby to feel safe and free to learn and explore, and helps with forming relationships throughout their lives. Contents Providing consistent responsive and sensitive love and care of the first few months can help your baby develop. Human beings are designed to connect together - we all need a safe and secure base. Babies develop attachment relationships with their main caregiver over the first few months of life. Attachment behaviours are when babies and toddlers try to get comfort and protection from the people they feel attached to. This can be by smiling and cooing, crawling and following, holding out their arms, crying and many other signals that parents and carers learn to know. To show they need attention young babies may: Attachment and separation
The importance of attachment What is attachment? Attachment is an ongoing relationship between a parent (or other caregiver) and child that begins in infancy and continues throughout the child’s developmental stages. It develops from a parent’s “sensitive care”, by which we mean the ability of the parent to empathize with the baby and pick up on the baby’s signals about what it needs and wants. Having a trusted caregiver who consistently provides care, affection and support to the child in infancy and early childhood is important for a child to reach his or her full potential.[1] Why is attachment important? Children need to have a sense of security in all aspects of their lives so that they can grow up to be healthy and productive adults. An infant or toddler is considered “securely attached” if, as they mature and move through their normal developmental stages, they can use their mother or other consistent caregiver as a secure base from which to explore their environment. Hertzman C. 2000.
Children and Separation Separation or divorce does not normally end your involvement and responsibility as a parent. Children need the continuing affection and support of both parents. This will require cooperation with your former partner which may not always be easy. The pain of a separation can be felt in many ways. All of these feelings are normal responses to a separation. The other reaction is where you try to make the best of the situation and learn through your experience. The way you handle the separation very much affects how your children cope with it. What happens for children when their parents separate? Children can react very differently to separation or divorce. There is no doubt this is a stressful period for children, but most recover and end up leading normal healthy lives. Separation is often a surprise for children and they generally experience many of the same feelings as adults. Some children may feel that they must have been to blame. How do they behave? Birth – 2 years 2.5 – 5 years
This website lacks some of the flashy graphics that the other websites have, but the information presented is very good. It is pretty complicated to look at quickly, but if you spend a good deal of time teaching phonemic awareness, it is a very good resource to help instruct on the core concepts. Also provides links to more in depth information. by ttribou Jul 24