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Greetings!
Make sure parents know that every activity, experience and routine that takes place in your program is an opportunity for learning and development. Always be talking to parents about your curriculum. It's up to you to help them make the connection, and understand that PLAY = LEARNING!
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 Are You Providing Enough Opportunities To Develop
Pre-Writing Skills?
We know children learn best through active, hands-on play.
In order to be ready to write, children need to have developed hand skills. This means they need to have the strength and dexterity to handle, and control, small objects with their hands. But, they will also need to develop the muscles in their forearm and upper body to provide the strength and stability that will allow them to use their hands to manipulate and control writing instruments.
Outdoor and gross motor play is vital to developing the fine motor skills needed for writing. Be sure to provide the children in you program with plenty of opportunities to climb, hang, swing, and dangle from monkey bars or other playground equipment. Twisting, turning, pushing, pulling, tugging, and lifting himself up are other activities that help to develop the muscles used for writing.
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Early Numeracy - Learning Math Through Play
Young children develop early math skills in a variety of areas, including problem solving and reasoning, number concepts, geometry and spatial sense, measurement, and patterns & relationships.
Children learn important math skills through their play and routines, and need to experience a lot of doing and saying, using concrete materials that they can manipulate to learn math in the early years.
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Marketing Your Family Child Care 
On Craigslist
Marketing your family child care on Craigslist is a strategy that works... If you do it right.
Providers who have taken my workshops where I show them the tips in this video come back and tell me they started getting calls and e-mails almost immediately. And Craigslist is free!!
Click the link below to watch this video where I will introduce
you to Craigslist, give you the secrets to effective postings,
and walk you through signing up and creating your ad.
www.familychildcareacademy.com
Don't forget to download the handout below the video.
I hope this training will be relevant and helpful to you. After you watch the video, if you have any questions or comments, please enter them in the comment section under the video.
If you think other providers would benefit from the information in the video, please feel free to forward the link and / or share the link via Facebook or Twitter! |
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Natalie Kriger
PH: 415-330-1040
FAX: 415-330-1039
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