For Parent Educators

For parent educators (or counselors, social workers, teachers, doctors… really anyone who works with parents of young children), I have a large collection of free printable handouts on a vast array of parenting topics.

For Children’s Teachers

For children’s teachers who work with kids age birth to five, I have a large collection of resources for music at group time which offer ideas for enhancing your music curriculum (including lesson plans, lyrics to countless songs, and lessons for learning to play the ukulele!)

And check out these posts about classroom activities and play-based learning:

• sensory bins, water play, introducing a sensory bin; and reducing sensory bin mess
• stretchy band play; parachute play;
• invitations to play, and stations for a play-based class, and process vs. product
• teaching math skills; teaching science
• activities for toddlers based around 12 common themes (each includes crafts, songs, books, etc.)

And don’t miss these:

• Key Principles for Supporting Learning
• Social Story for Orientation – help the year get off to a better start!!
• making classes gender inclusive and choosing inclusive books

If you teach children age 3 – 7 and want to add easy hands-on STEM activities to boost science skills, check out my other blog, Inventors of Tomorrow.