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Our Resource Library contains materials and assistance for early childhood educators and those they serve. Explore our selection of podcasts, tip sheets, websites, documents, and self-study courses.
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| Resource Name | Description | Resource Type |
|---|---|---|
| Pautas para el uso de elementos de presión profunda y ponderados en programas para la primera infancia (Guidelines for Use of Deep Pressure and Weighted Items in Early Childhood Programs) | Qué es la presión profunda, cómo afecta a los niños con ansiedad o necesidades sensoriales y cómo implementar el uso de presión profunda y elementos pesados en un entorno de cuidado infantil. What deep pressure is, how it affects children with anxiety or sensory needs, and how to implement the use of deep pressure and heavy items in a childcare setting. | Tipsheet |
| Pets in the Family Child Care Setting | Guidelines, precautions, and tips for providers with pets in the FCC to ensure all children, adults, and animals are healthy and safe. | Tipsheet |
| Planning for Winter Emergencies | Programs in areas that experience extreme cold should have a plan for handling winter emergencies. Explore tips [from Head Start Early Childhood Learning & Knowledge Center - ECLKC] your program can use to prepare for emergencies such as frostbite, hypothermia, and loss of power. | Website |
| Play Activities to Encourage Motor Development in Child Care | Play is crucial to the development of children's gross and fine motor skills. Through play, children practice and perfect control and coordination of large body movements, as well as small movements of hands and fingers. Child care providers can support young children's motor development by planning play activities that provide children with regular opportunities to move their bodies. | Website |
| Play in Kindergarten - MN Department of Education | Lifelong learning begins with play. Play uses exploration, imagination, and inquiry to develop cognitive and social-emotional skills and the confidence to engage in new experiences. Play is a valuable and evidence-based teaching practice for all early learning environments, including kindergarten and beyond. | Document |
| Play--Play Skills are Developmental Too: Part One | In this podcast, we look at children’s development from infant stages through older preschool to explore what types of play children should typically be engaged in at different ages. Play is both developmental and learned so children need our help in acquiring skills that help them move from stage to stage. We will set the foundation for talking about some of the challenges children may face in their play. | Podcast |
| Play-Based Activities That Build Reading Readiness | "Preschool teachers can use these activities," from Amanda Morin at Edutopia Magazine, "to promote six early reading skills even as the kids enjoy themselves." | Website |
| Poetry Books for Babies and Toddlers | "Can you read poetry to babies and toddlers?" The authors at What Do We Do All Day say, "Of course! Kids ages 3 and under will be a most receptive audience. When you stop to consider the matter, you will notice that most good books for babies, toddlers and even preschoolers are written in rhyme and with a pleasing rhythm." | Website |
| Positive Behavior Support Plan | A positive behavior support plan is an action plan that outlines the specific steps needed to promote a child’s success and participation in daily activities and routines. | Tipsheet |
| Potty Training: Learning to Use the Toilet | Tips, skills, and strategies for successful toilet training. | Tipsheet |
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