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Outdoor Learning Outdoor learning is beneficial for the health and wellbeing of both children and caregivers. Make the most of your "outdoor classroom" with these tips. Tipsheet
Overcoming Play Challenges Through Play Partners How to support the development of play and social interaction skills using a play partnering approach. Tipsheet
Part 1: Supporting Infants and Toddlers through Routine Separations and Reunions Listen as Beth Menninga, our CICC Coaching Manager, joins Inclusion Matters and shares key practices to support our youngest learners through common daily separations and reunions.  Podcast
Part 1: Supporting Quality Play Relationships-Infants and Toddlers Listen as our guest, Dr. Sue Starks, Professor of Education and Chair of Early Childhood at Concordia University St. Paul, talks about one of her passions, supporting play in young children.  Dr. Starks shares that play is relationship based and your environment matters.  How can you align your space to foster early social emotional connection through play? Join us as we explore this important topic.  Podcast
Part 2: Supporting Infants and Toddlers through Extended Separations and Reunions In this second part of our discussion, we are joined again by CICC Coaching Manager, Beth Menninga.  This segment focuses on extended separations and reunions with infants and toddlers.  We discuss military deployment, divorce/break up or split households, work travel, incarceration, foster care, hospitalization, immigration related separations, teacher leaves, and change of classroom or care setting.  Podcast
Part 2: Supporting Quality Play Relationships-Preschoolers Join in our second part of a discussion on the importance of play with Dr. Sue Starks, Professor of Education and Chair of Early Childhood at Concordia University St. Paul.  We discuss the fact that play is a developmental need and that all children show us what they need through play.  Quality play is encouraged through the supports, prompts, activities, and experiences that we provide in the early childhood setting. Listen as Dr. Starks encourages us all to play! Podcast
Pautas para el uso de elementos de presión profunda y ponderados en programas para la primera infancia (Guidelines for Use of Deep Pressure and Weighted Items in Early Childhood Programs) La presión táctil profunda es una forma de entrada sensorial táctil que tiene un efecto relajante, calmante y organizador sobre el sistema nervioso. Se puede proporcionar sujetándolo firmemente, abrazándolo, apretando y usando artículos pesados. La presión táctil profunda puede ser beneficiosa para las personas con altos niveles de ansiedad o con niveles elevados de excitación. Tipsheet
Pets in the Family Child Care Setting Guidelines, precautions, and tips for providers with pets in the FCC to ensure all children, adults, and animals are healthy and safe. Tipsheet
Planning for Winter Emergencies Programs in areas that experience extreme cold should have a plan for handling winter emergencies. Explore tips [from Head Start Early Childhood Learning & Knowledge Center - ECLKC] your program can use to prepare for emergencies such as frostbite, hypothermia, and loss of power. Website
Play Activities to Encourage Motor Development in Child Care Child Care Play is crucial to the development of children's gross and fine motor skills. Through play, children practice and perfect control and coordination of large body movements, as well as small movements of hands and fingers. Child care providers can support young children's motor development by planning play activities that provide children with regular opportunities to move their bodies. Website