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Watch How You Hold That Crayon

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In Manhattan, the brutally competitive nursery and kindergarten admissions process is leading many parents to sign up their toddlers for therapy.

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Kindergarten Centers

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A website with many ideas for creating a learning environment in the early childhood classroom.

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Kelly's Kindergarten

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.kellyskindergarten.com (Views: 19, Clicks: 4)  
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Site includes great ideas for centers.

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Kindergarten Centers

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.pitt.edu (Views: 12, Clicks: 1)  
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Site includes ideas for centers in the kindergarten classroom.

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Skills available for Oklahoma kindergarten math standards

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.ixl.com (Views: 14, Clicks: 0)  
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You can easily find unlimited practice problems specifically tailored to each required state standard.

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Technology advances for toddlers at Country School

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The next time you need tech support, you might consider one of the toddlers over at Weston’s Country School.

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Preschools Add Brush-and-Spit to Day

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Massachusetts is the first state to add toothbrush time to the color-nap-snack-and-play routine of preschools, requiring that all children who eat a meal at day care, or attend for more than four hours, brush their teeth during class and be educated about oral health.

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Children’s Mathematical Graphics: Understanding the Key Concept

Newman sumitted ago via http://nrich.maths.org (Views: 41, Clicks: 17)  
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The key concept in understanding and supporting young children's mathematical graphics is knowing the difference between children 'recording' a piece of mathematics after they have done it practically, as opposed to children representing their own mathematical thinking (i.e. children's mathematical graphics).

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Playing to Learn

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SUSAN ENGEL -- "If the Obama administration wants to reform education, it should overhaul the current curriculum, which is completely at odds with the way a child’s mind develops."

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Supporting Rich Mathematical Interactions in ECE

nitajo sumitted ago via http://new.nzmaths.co.nz (Views: 12, Clicks: 1)  
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This material is intended to support early childhood educators to use opportunities that arise in everyday interactions with children to foster the development of mathematical thinking.

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Early Numeracy

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Scaffolding Number Sense and Computational Strategies (K-2)

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Making Longer, Making Shorter

nitajo sumitted ago via http://nrich.maths.org (Views: 15, Clicks: 2)  
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This problem brings in doubling, halves and quarters in a very practical way using rods made from interlocking cubes. It gives children a practical context in which to explore simple multiplying and dividing, even if these particular terms are not used explicitly. It can provide a very useful context for introducing and using the vocabulary of halves and quarters.

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Read with Me: Helping Parents Help Children

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No surprises here: a recent survey underscores the importance of reading to and chatting with children in their first years as a vital building block to speech and literacy.

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More under-fives suspended

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.educationnews.org (Views: 24, Clicks: 0)  
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Rising numbers of infants are being suspended from school for attacking teachers and fellow pupils, according to new figures.

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How Children Learn Math

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.nytimes.com (Views: 12, Clicks: 1)  
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Nancy Krasa & Sara Shunkwile -- "Kudos for drawing readers’ attention to cognitive neuroscience’s burgeoning role in early childhood education — particularly in math, where our knowledge lags many years behind that in reading."

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