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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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Sensory Gardening with Kids Activity Kit | "Gardening is a ‘sense-sational’ way to engage kids in outdoor learning and play! With their incredible diversity of shapes, sizes, colors, scents, and textures, plants offer limitless options for designing a garden space to engage all the senses. KidsGardening is excited to team up with Little Seeds Kids to bring you a new activity kit full of ideas for starting your own sensory garden. The 8-page kit compiles sensory garden design tips and plant suggestions along with an assortment of fun and engaging activities you can try with young gardeners with or without a garden space." | Document |
Sensory Intervention Strategies and Environmental Adaptations | Children with Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) can be over-sensitive or under responsive (or a combination of both) to stimuli. Learn how to create a predictable and structured environment in your child care setting, which can enhance the performance for a child who has SPD. | Tipsheet |
Sensory Processing Disorder | The misinformation caused in the brain by a sensory processing disorder (SPD) can interfere with a child's sense of security and safety. Learn about the eight senses, sensory system responses, and common behaviors of children with SPD in this tip sheet. | Tipsheet |
September is National Preparedness Month: Don’t Be Scared, Be Prepared | "September marks the start of National Preparedness Month, a campaign designed by the Institute for Childhood Preparedness to raise awareness about natural disasters, emergencies, and community planning. Without proper planning, families across the country are at risk of losing their homes, valuables, and their lives. We’re often asked when the best time to start preparing for an emergency is, and the answer is always: Now!" | Website |
Setting Up Activity Areas | Setting up activity areas is the second step in setting up the environment for infants and toddlers. | Tipsheet |
Setting Up the Environment to Meet the Physical Needs of All Children: Part One | Priscilla Weigel and special guest Vicki Thrasher Cronin discuss a child care setting that needed help with providing more physical activity and space for the children in their care. This three part series walks through the process of transformation. Part 1 of this series focuses on the need for this group of children to participate in more rough and tumble play and how the process of creating these opportunities began. | Podcast |
Setting Up the Environment to Meet the Physical Needs of All Children: Part Three | Priscilla Weigel and Vicki Thrasher Cronin end this series with an overview of ways to support parents understanding of their child"s temperament and learning style and how more activity infused through the day can be beneficial. They also discuss building that supportive relationship with parents and how they can help facilitate positive change long term through referral and evaluation. | Podcast |
Setting Up the Environment to Meet the Physical Needs of All Children: Part Two | Priscilla Weigel and Vicki Thrasher Cronin continue their discussion of providing more physical movement by discussing what was needed to change the existing space and how the whole center helped make this idea a reality. | Podcast |
Seven Strategies for Building an Accepting and Inclusive Environment | Highlights how early care and education professional can create an environment in which all children have a sense of belonging. | Tipsheet |
Sida ay Ciyaartu Uhormariso Dhismaha Maskaxda (How Play Promotes Cognitive Development) | Cayaartu waxay kor u qaadaa horumarinta xirfadaha fahanka badan. Markay carruurtu ka qaybgalaan ciyaarta oo ay helaan fursado ay si buuxda ugu lug yeeshaan waxa ay sameynayaan, oo ay horumariyaan habab aad u xeel dheer oo feker ah. Play promotes the development of a multitude of cognitive skills. When children participate in play and have opportunities to become fully involved in what they are doing, and they develop more sophisticated and complex ways of thinking. | Tipsheet |
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