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Back to the Basics: General Health and Safety Tips for Early Childhood Settings

As we continue to assess and endure the Covid-19 pandemic globally, it can be easy to overlook the general health and safety procedures that we know work to keep children and staff healthy and safe in early childhood settings. Jody Martin, author of Preschool Health and Safety Matters, invites us to go back to the basics by sharing some general health and safety tips for teachers and administrators to assess and promote as habits including teaching hand-washing, inspecting classroom equipment and toys, and encouraging stress relieving activities.
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Related Book: Preschool Health and Safety Matters
Books for Encouraging Classroom Safety & Health

Safety first! One of the most vital roles that early childhood teachers, educators, administrators, and caregivers have is to keep the children in their care safe, and promote their health. Safe and healthy environments allow kids to freely learn and play. Health and safety not only involves emergency or crisis preparedness, but also the daily promotion of healthy habits, hygiene, nutrition, fitness, injury prevention, transportation and pedestrian safety, mental wellness, and more. In the list of resources below, you will find guidelines, strategies, procedures, and activities for keeping children healthy and safe in your environment so they can be happy and healthy as they learn and grow!
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Balancing Classroom Design for Introverted and Extroverted Children

Sandra Duncan, EdD—coauthor of Rethinking the Classroom Landscape and Through a Child’s Eyes: How Classroom Design Inspires Learning and Wonder—explains that many classrooms are designed with extroverted children in mind, filled with group spaces created for action and filled to the brim with sensory stimulation. Oftentimes, this type of classroom design unintentionally excludes more introverted children who may prefer quieter, smaller spaces to be by themselves or just a few other children. Dr. Sandra Duncan suggests that we can design play spaces to meet the needs of both introverted and extroverted children, and gives us four tips for doing so.
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Related Book: Rethinking the Classroom Landscape
Books for Active Learning Indoors

Sometimes inclement weather keeps us indoors, but that doesn't mean learning for children has to take place sitting down at a desk. In fact, research shows that the most effective way for children to learn concepts is to experience them physically. Active learning benefits the whole child by supporting cognitive, social/emotional, and physical development and spans across the early childhood curriculum including language and literacy, mathematics, science, social studies, creative representation, and social skills. In this list, you will find resources for inspiring, motivating, and facilitating indoor active learning through music, activities, games, dances, and more.
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Making Early Childhood Transitions Fun

Children are naturally joyful, active, talkative, and energetic. As teacher of young children, one of our most important and challenging roles is to guide them through the many transitions in a day. When we prepare children for transitions and focus their attention in positive ways, we eliminate many disruptions. Positive communication is key. Dr. Jean Feldman shows us how to make transitions fun by focusing children's energies through fingerplays, songs, and games.
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Books for Smooth Transitions in Early Childhood

Any parent, caregiver, or early childhood professional knows that transition times can be tough for children! This includes not only big transitions like those from preschool to kindergarten, but also small daily transitions from waking up, to circle time, to activity time, to clean up time, to nap time, to departures. For young children, these small daily transitions and segments within the day seem quite big! In this list, you will find resources to help take the stress out of transition times by providing teachers with effective strategies to help children focus their attention in positive ways, engaging transition activities, as well as creative chants, songs, fingerplays, games, and more!
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How to Be An Emotion Detector for Infants and Toddlers

Just like older humans, infants and toddlers have complex emotional worlds. Unlike older humans, infants and toddlers do not yet have the language or vocabulary to express those emotional worlds. Instead they express their emotions through facial expressions, sounds, and body postures. Dr. Donna Wittmer—co-author of Crying and Laughing: The Emotional Development of Infants and Toddlers and From Biting to Hugging: Understanding Social Development in Infants and Toddlers—explains how to be an emotion detector for infants and toddlers and help them develop emotional competence, the bedrock for their present and future success.
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Related Book: Crying and Laughing
Books for Supporting Communication and Language Development in Infants, Toddlers, and Two-Year-Olds

It’s never too early to teach and practice language and communication skills! In this list of resources, you will find engaging ways to foster emerging language skills, help children develop pre-literacy skills, support positive social behavior, and nurture children from all language and cultural backgrounds. From songs and rhymes to story play and sign language, these lessons and activities are sure to engage infants, toddlers, and two-year-olds in exciting and fun ways curated just for them.
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Books for Encouraging Movement and Physical Development in Infants, Toddlers, and Two-Year-Olds

Babies and toddlers naturally want to move, discover their own abilities, and explore the physical world around them. In this list of resources, parents and caregivers will discover how to use this natural desire for movement to fuel physical development, build the body-brain connection, and help infant, toddlers, and two-year-olds master basic physical skills through structured and unstructured play. When a child feels comfortable moving, exploring, and investigating their surroundings, the possibilities for their continued learning and development are endless!
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How to Create Inviting, Interesting, & Intriguing Classroom Environments for Deeper Engagement

Children learn by investigating and exploring the world around them, so we need to make sure that “world” draws them in and gives them opportunities to learn! Laura Wilhelm, EdD— Vice President of Professional Learning at Kaplan Early Learning Company and author Enticing Environments for People Under Three— shares how we can more deeply engage young children by creating environments with the “3 I’s” in mind—Inviting, interesting, and intriguing.
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Related Book: Enticing Environments for People Under Three