Provide your child(ren) a mat, a hula hoop, or a towel to indicate the space they need to stay in.  Give the students instructions for slow relaxed movements to help them focus on their body in space.  This activity can help them calm down and be ready for more challenging tasks. Talk to your child(ren) about the benefits of relaxing and being calm. 

This video is a read aloud of the children's book Caps For Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina. Caps For Sale is about a peddler who walks along the countryside offering caps for sale. The peddler carries his caps on his head. He doesn't have much success so he takes a rest by a tree and when he wakes, his caps are missing. Read the story to find out what happens to the caps.

Children will learn how to practice and maintain personal hygiene habits such as washing hands, brushing their teeth, and proper body hygiene.  

Children will talk about themselves and how they have changed over time.  Talk about what a child is able to typically do at age 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. Discuss changes they have seen in themselves and things that they have learned to do over the years (movement, walking, talking, learning different things, etc.)  

Children will watch the video to see how things have changed over time. 

Vision: Access to safe, healthy child care for Utah families.

Mission:To support the child care community by protecting the health and safety of children in child care programs we oversee. This is accomplished by:

Establishing, monitoring, and assessing health and safety standards;
Training, guiding, and supporting providers in meeting the established standards; and
Providing the public with accurate information about child care standards, processes, and provider compliance history.

The Children's Center Utah provides comprehensive mental health care to enhance the emotional well-being of infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and their families

This brief article discusses the importance of young children creating their own informal graphical representations of their mathematical thinking and problem solving. As distinguished from formal recording of a completed process, these early markings and symbols enable children to develop understanding and make meaning as well as communicate their thinking. The article includes a list of references, including the authors' research on which the article is based.

This is a lesson about community helpers! This is a lesson for preschool children. Citation for thumbnail image: Public Domain Dedication from openclipart.com

Children will learn how to correctly hold a book, notice the spacing between words, tie illustrations to text, and track the words with a finger. Children will demonstrate that reading is done left to right, top to bottom, and front to back.

Children will count out objects by touching the objects as they count them. Ask them to answer how many they counted. 

Children will make their own musical instruments, use those instruments to create and perform a musical piece for an audience. 

This article from ISTE explains how teachers can create a Makerspace at their school. A Makerspace is a place where learners can come together to create or invent things|either using traditional crafts or technology:.

In this activity, students familiarise themselves with asteroids. They discuss and build their own model asteroids. They learn how asteroids are formed in the Solar System. At the end of the activity, each student has their own model asteroid made from clay.

Children will help create some rules to feel safe in their environment. Children will be able to recognize and state rules they helped create.

Teachers can take a step back and create lessons that put student explorations at the center of learning.

Sabotage a play area and seek input from your child(ren) to help problem-solve a solution. Remove a preferred play item and ask them what they could replace it with. Ask them to tell you what they are planning to build and predict what the outcome will be. 

Help children recognize traditions they have in their own families and provide them with an opportunity to share part of that culture with others. Have child(ren) share a drawing, a photo, music they enjoy, food, etc. 

Children will move around in a designated area as they move like the animals in the story.