Our “Staying Healthy” unit today included the importance of sleep. We discussed what sleep looks like, what we take to bed with us, and later read Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown. We drew pictures of our animal friends sleeping and acted out a bedtime routine during dramatic play time. They even each decided to read their animal friends a bedtime story, and one got swaddled like Hud’s baby…
Every time I hear someone say that they’re basically paying for school so someone can “just play” with their child, my hair stands on end. Yes, it offends me. Why? Because I have 2 Master’s degrees that qualify me to know HOW to play with children, and what I can accomplish in 30 minutes with a child, the average person may not be able to…
I’ve spent my life sprawled out on the floor and on playgrounds running around and playing with kids; it’s second nature to me. However, I realize that this isn’t the case for most people. They likely didn’t go to school for it and its possible they never grew up around young children. I discovered this while doing a workshop on developing skills through…