First Feelings
Infants (0-24 months) Emotional 2.1 Expression of Emotion expressing comfort and discomfort expressing pleasure and displeasure expressing anger, anxiety, fear, sadness, joy, excitement showing...
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Infants (0-24 months) Physical 5.1 Gross Motor Sitting sitting without support While the infant is straddling your extended leg, hold her arms and bounce her gently. This rhythmic movement...
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Infants (0-24 months) Emotional 2.2 Self-Regulation Emotion Regulation becoming calm when comforted by familiar adults comforting self with thumb recovering from distress and over-stimulation in a...
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Toddlers (14 months -3 years) Social 1.1 Social Interest observing and imitating peers beginning to play “follow the peer” games observing and playing briefly with peers (may turn into struggle for...
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Preschool Kindergarten (2.5 to 6 years) Cognitive 4.7 Reflecting and Reaching Conclusions describing similarities and cause and effect in recurring events identifying patterns of events describing...
View ArticleThe Value in Playing With Mud
Today is international mud day, a day when it’s more than okay to get a little messy. I like the idea of having a mud day for many reasons. First of all, it promotes being messy and sometimes messy...
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Infants (0-24 months) Emotional 2.3 Sense of Self sucking fingers, observing own hands showing preference for being held by familiar people beginning to distinguish known people from strangers showing...
View ArticleDocumentation and Reflection
I have wanted to read The Diary of Laura for a number of years now, even purchasing a copy at conference last year, however I’ve been so caught up in the busyness of life that I tucked it away and...
View ArticleHow to Raise Compassionate Children
We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It’s easy to say “It’s not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem.” Then there are those who see the need and respond. I...
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