Thursday, August 27, 2015

Children's Book List for Disability Awareness

Here is a Children's book list on disability awareness in PDF format.

DISABILITY AWARENESS MONTH RESOURCE LIST -- …

www.cliservices.org/Portals/0/DisabilitiesReadingList.pdf

http://www.cliservices.org/Portals/0/DisabilitiesReadingList.pdf

Gender Neutral Children Book List


Here is a book list in PDF format from the NAEYC website. The list provides the title, author and a brief description of the book. I'm looking forward to putting in my orders to my local library. Thank you to one of my training participants for prompting this search. :)

Children’s Books that Break Gender Role Stereotypes

journal.naeyc.org/btj/200303/Books4Children.pdf
... Using Children’s Literature to Debunk Gender Stereotypes,” in the March issue of Young Children. ... Children’s Books that Break Gender Role Stereotypes

http://journal.naeyc.org/btj/200303/Books4Children.pdf

Free Professional Development Webinars w/ Certificates

A colleague, Betsy Fox, of mine told be about access to some great Webinars. These Early Childhood Webinars are free and after attending you receive a certificate to put in your Professional/personal/ career portfolio! ;)

Go to this link:
http://www.earlychildhoodwebinars.com/

or Search for the website- Early Childhood Investigations, click on the register button and you will put in your information and the webinar notification will be emailed to you.

Thank you Betsy Fox (http://foxeducation.com/home ) for your inspirations and walk by the sea in Bellingham, WA, and thank you to my training participants for your dedication and commitment to the early childhood field ~ hope to see you all in the future!

Friday, August 7, 2015

Long-term Projects to Study in your preschool classroom

Here are a variety of Long-Term Projects that your students can study in the preschool classroom.

They are called:  Marvelous Explorations Through Science and Stories (MESS)

MESS long-term projects have a variety of "themes" including: My Body My Senses, Water, Plant Life, Prehistoric Life, Insects and Spiders, Kitchen Store, etc.

Click on this-> Marvelous Explorations Through Science and Stories    or go to Office of Head Start's website:

Early Childhood Learning and Knowledge Center

https://eclkc.ohs.acf.hhs.gov/

and search MESS to get free PDF booklets on these long-term projects for your preschool classroom.