Nursery (or Kindergarten or Preschool) students enjoy seeing the evening sky with the teacher from the playground or through a big window (indoor). This is especially relevant for students who stay for extra-hour care. During late evening hours, some students feel a little lonely waiting for their parents, but they have a wonderful natural treasure: the evening sky. By observing the evening sky with the naked eye, they will notice many colours, changing colours, the first star, the subtle colours of stars, twinkling stars, and the movement of stars. Nursery teachers who think they are not science-oriented will also gain guidance skills of introducing science to students. This activity is also useful for primary school students, especially younger-grade students.

How does Ms. Gaxiola use counting collections to help
students build an understanding of addition and subtraction?
What differentiation strategies does Ms. Gaxiola use?
How could you make counting collections a part of your
classroom routine?

Watch the linked video and ask your child(ren) to hold up a card to show how they are feeling when they hear a specific piece of music.

Where does your food come from? Farmers, of course! Hear a famous poem about the hard work of growing food in A Farmer's Tale, the latest episode of YourClassical Storytime, featuring traditional Chinese folk tunes and original illustrations by Nancy Carlson.

This is a lesson plan for teaching feelings happy, sad, scared, mad to young children.

Finding Your Path: A Navigation Tool for Scaling Personalized, Competency-Based Learning is designed to help learning communities understand the conditions for sustainable systems change and to develop and advance a strategic plan for district-wide transformation to personalized, competency-based learning.

Find strategies and activities that you can use in the classroom that tie directly to the Early learning Preschool core standards.

Children will learn to use writing materials.  Multiple opportunities to develop drawing and writing skills is important at this age.  As children are ready, encourage them to create simple strokes after a model.  Their abilities will increase as they are ready.   

This lesson is for preschool children to showcase their fine motor projects. Students will take photos using the classroom iPad and a college will be made to hang in the fine motor area to showcase student work and to be an inspiration board for other students.This project will be connected to our letter of the day. 

Children need to develop coordination of the muscles in their shoulders, arms, wrists, hands, and fingers.  Provide materials in order to help children build and strengthen those muscles.

This lesson is for Pre-K as part of a Healthy Foods and Food Groups Unit. Students will take photos of foods they eat and then sort photos into 5 food groups. 

This video segment from Between the Lions shows the practice of sounding out the word rocket part by part, blending sounds together to form a word.

Children will listen to music and stop their bodies from moving when the music pauses.  This allows students to explore movement through dance and also helps build self-control as they start and stop activities.  

How much can one vegetable grow? Find out in The Giant Carrot, the tale of a root so big that it’s going to take some teamwork to get it out of the ground. It’s the latest episode of YourClassical Storytime – featuring Lynne Warfel, with music by Johannes Brahms and illustrations by E.J. Thompson.

"Run, run as fast as you can! You can't catch me. I'm the Gingerbread Man!" Who can catch this speedy pastry? Find out in The Gingerbread Man. It's the latest episode of YourClassical Storytime, with music by Johannes Brahms and illustrations by Nancy Carlson.

What happens when an adventurous girl discovers a house in the woods owned by bears and filled with classical recordings? Find out how her musical adventure unfolds in Goldilocks and the Three Bears, the latest installment of YourClassical Storytime, featuring illustrations by acclaimed children's author Nancy Carlson. Along the way, we'll hear some wonderful melodies by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Erik Satie, Giacchino Rossini and more. It's our classical twist on the classic tale.

This simple tale has many moments of strong emotion, beginning with the storm that blows a goose egg out of its nest and down a woodchuck's hole.

Bruce the goose always swims his morning laps alone, until his life changes forever on one fateful summer day. Find out what happens in Goose, Goose, Baby Goose! – the new episode of YourClassical Storytime, with narration by Ryan Lohr, music by Charles Koechlin and illustrations by Mia Jennings.

Plant grass seed in cups with your child(ren).  Once the seeds are planted, place them near the window and watch them grow. Provide the items needed for growth and talk about what is needed.  Each day, allow children to observe and communicate any changes they see and write about it in a picture journal. 

This report offers guidance for K-12 districts and schools by synthesizing the latest research and knowledge on emerging practices for: 1) developing local habits of success frameworks, 2) addressing equity and cultural considerations in implementing habits of success and lifelong learning skills, and 3) promoting and assessing habits of success. The report also provides recommendations and next steps to support all students in building strong habits of success.