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Strike Up the Band!
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Teaching Young Children
January 6, 2025

Strike Up the Band

Encourage children to invent an instrument.

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Cate Heroman
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Weaving Wonders!
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Teaching Young Children
January 6, 2025

Weaving Wonders

Invite children to weave with a variety of materials, even challenging them to create their own looms.

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Cate Heroman
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Gizmos Galore!
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Teaching Young Children
January 6, 2025

Gizmos Galore

Challenge children to take an everyday object and make it better.

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Cate Heroman
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Article
Teaching Young Children
January 6, 2025

The Birdfeeder Project

Children at a Maine early learning center extend their learning about birds to include building birdfeeders.

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Sessa Salas, Kelley Duffelmeyer, Kristy Grover
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September 24, 2024

Preparing Young Children for School

In this blog, Rebecca Newman-Gonchar shares relevant findings from a recently released practice guide that underscores the importance of developmentally appropriate practice during back to school time.

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Rebecca Newman-Gonchar
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squirrel proof bird feeder activity
Article
Teaching Young Children
October 1, 2024

Squirrel-Proof Birdfeeder

Inspire children to build birdfeeders and figure out how to keep squirrels at bay.
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build a fort activity
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Teaching Young Children
October 1, 2024

Build a Fort

Guide children to build a fort that accommodates at least two people. Extend the challenge by encouraging working features.
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box it activity
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Teaching Young Children
October 1, 2024

Box It!

Encourage children to make something different from a box or to use a box as the basis for a game.
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Article
Young Children
June 3, 2024

Building Executive Function Skills Through Games: The Power of Playful Learning

NAEYC promotes high-quality early learning for all children, birth through age 8, by connecting practice, policy, and research. We advance a diverse early childhood profession and support all who care for, educate, and work on behalf of young children.

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Cynthia A. Wiltshire, Molly Scott
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the cover of the publication, young children, summer 2024
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Young Children
Vol. 79, No. 2
June 3, 2024

Summer 2024

Self-Regulation and Executive Function: Responsive and Informed Practices for Early Childhood
This issue of Young Children offers a range of ideas for how early childhood professionals can translate important findings into actionable steps in their own settings to nurture executive function skills.
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Article
Young Children
September 1, 2022

Extending the Math in Picture Books

In this article, we discuss the benefits of engaging children in math learning through shared reading, outlining strategies that early childhood educators can use to extend the math during shared reading of both mathematical and non-mathematical books.

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Megan Onesti, Colleen Uscianowski, Michèle M. Mazzocco
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Article
Young Children
September 1, 2022

Promoting Algebraic Reasoning in the Early Years

Teachers can help children build the foundations of algebraic reasoning in preschool and elementary school by focusing on topics critical to algebra by using concrete objects found in any early learning setting or home and by offering simple activities.

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Lindsey Perry
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