Play All Day
This type of play allows children to make choices, explore, create, and use their imagination
What is child-led play?
Families are children's first and most important...
Who are teachers?
A predictable daily schedule helps children feel this.
What is safe or secure?
Developmentally Appropriate Practice is often shortened to these three letters.
What is DAP?
This classic Eric Carle book features a caterpillar who eats through many foods before becoming a butterfly.
What is The Very Hungry Caterpillar?
This area of development is supported when children run, climb, jump, balance, and dance.
What is gross motor development?
A warm greeting at drop-off and pick up helps build this between families and educators.
What is trust?
Pictures that show the daily routine, classroom rules, or steps for handwashing are called these.
What are visual supports?
This song is often used to support clean-up routines in early childhood classrooms.
What is the Clean-Up Song?
In this bedtime favorite, a little bunny says goodnight to everything in the room.
What is Goodnight Moon?
When educators join children's play without taking over, this is called being a play partner or using this teaching strategy
What is scaffolding?
Sharing positive stories about a child before discussing concerns is a helpful way to build this type of relationship
What is strengths-based relationship
This classroom area supports imagination, language, social skills, and role play.
What is dramatic play?
A child painting a purple dog, a rainbow tree, or a blue sun is showing this.
What is creativity?
This book teaches kindness and problem-solving when a fish learns that sharing can bring happiness.
What is The Rainbow Fish?
Deep breathing, a quiet space, sensory tools, and gentle adult support are examples of this classroom support
What are calming support?
This means honoring families’ cultures, languages, traditions, and home experiences in the classroom.
What is culturally responsive practice?
Transitions are smoother when teachers use songs, warnings, visuals, and this important planning practice.
What is consistency?
This is the most powerful teaching tool an early educator brings into the classroom every day.
What is themselves, their relationship, or their presence?
This beloved Hawaiʻi story by Don Freeman is about a little hula doll who wants to dance at a lūʻau.
What is Hula Lullaby?
Observation helps teachers understand children’s interests, strengths, needs, and this.
What is development or progress?
When families and educators work together toward shared goals for the child, this is called this.
What is family engagement?
When teachers intentionally arrange the room to guide behavior and learning, they are designing this.
What is the learning environment?
Teaching should support the whole child, including physical, social, emotional, cognitive, and this area of development.
What is language development?
This book features Moʻo and Koholā, two humpback whales near Lahaina who teach children about friendship, compassion, aloha, and working through big feelings.
What is Moʻo and Koholā?