Casey steps up to the plate for the Mudville Nine, but can he save the day for the woeful baseball team? Find out what happens in Casey at the Bat, the latest episode of YourClassical Storytime, featuring Americana classical music and original illustrations by Nancy Carlson.

Once upon a time, 300 years ago, a beautiful cello was created by a master craftsman. This wonderful instrument eventually ended up in the gifted hands of one of the greatest cellists in history, Pablo Casals. Soon, the cello became known as Pablo, too. This is the story of A Cello Named Pablo. Listen as modern musician Amit Peled tells how he came to play Casals' favorite instrument. It's the latest episode of YourClassical Storytime, featuring an original story written by Marni Fogelson and illustrations by Avi Katz.

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.

Want to build engagement by providing students with options? Open our Choice Board Generator and follow three easy steps.

Can you have too many presents, too much holiday food, too much cheer? When little Noelle wishes for Christmas every day, she gets more than she bargained for in the delightful new YourClassical Storytime episode Christmas Every Day, featuring traditional music of the holiday season and art by Nancy Carlson.

Welcome to YourClassical Storytime! Today's story is all about a young woman who has many names all around the world, but the one you probably know best is Cinderella. Did you know the Cinderella story was written more than 300 years ago by a Frenchman named Charles Perrault? And Cinderella wasn't the only famous story he gave us. Among his other characters are Little Red Riding Hood, Puss in Boots and another famous princess, Sleeping Beauty. Classical music writers also loved Cinderella. More than 200 years ago, Italian composer Giacchino Rossini wrote a very funny opera called La Cenerentola. "Cenerentola" means "Cinderella" in Italian. But you won't meet all the usual characters in Rossini's opera. He's taken some out and added new ones. Instead of the Fairy Godmother, there's Alidoro, teacher and friend to the Prince. He helps Cinderella get to the ball. And rather than a wicked stepmother, there's her nasty stepfather, Don Magnifico, who insists he had a dream that his daughters, Clorinde and Tisby, will become royalty. Cinderella's real name is revealed as Angelina. And there's no glass slipper! Instead, there's a pair of matching diamond bracelets. And so our story begins.

The first day of school can be overwhelming with new friends, new places and new experiences — especially for a special kitty named Clover. Enjoy the latest YourClassical Storytime episode, Clover Kitty Goes to Kittygarten, by Laura Purdie Salas, illustrated by Hiroe Nakata, with music by composer Mel Bonis.

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

This is a Preschool learning activity about Community Helpers. It is designed to be done at home, on Preschool off-days, with assistance from an adult. Students will be working through a Google Slide presentation with videos teaching about 5 different community helpers, and taking notes and adding pictures about the Community Helpers they learned about. 

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.

The concepts that underlie the fourth essential principle of climate literacy ("Climate varies over space and time through both natural and man-made processes.") are too complex for students in early and upper-level elementary school, but the foundational knowledge can be taught within existing curriculums and standards. This foundational knowledge will lead to understanding in later years. The author shows the correlation to the national science education standards, identifies misconceptions among elementary school students, suggests formative assessment probes, and identifies lessons and activities to make curriculum connections. The free, online magazine Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle is based on the seven essential principles of the climate sciences.

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

Mix the letter B with other alphabet letters to make crazy words, and enjoy your own special recipe for family reading time!

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