Resources for parents and caregivers of preschoolers.
Find strategies and activities that you can use in the classroom that tie directly to the Early learning Preschool core standards.
The Big6 is a six-stage model to help anyone solve problems or make decisions by using information. Students can use this model to guide them through the research process. This resource is an information literacy lesson plan for young children.
Children will sing a familiar song while changing a certain component of the song. This can include singing the song at a fast or slow rate, in a high voice or whispered voice, etc.
Child(ren) wil explore how sunlight can cast shadows on a sunny day. Child(ren) will trace shadows on the sidewalk to color. This can be an outline of their own body(s), or they can trace the outline of a preferred toy, etc.
Children will learn phonological awareness as they play with words and sounds.
Have items ready to complete and extend patterns. You can use blocks, poker chips, candy, cards created for holidays, etc. Hand the materials to your child(ren) and ask them to sort them by likeness. Ask them to create, duplicate, complete, and/or extend a pattern. For example, you can hand them a handful of colored goldfish crackers or colored cereal rings. Once they are sorted, count how many you have of each color. Ask them to select at least 2 colors to make patterns with. Allow them to create more complex patterns as they are ready.
Our new Kindness in the Classroom® curriculum is a Tier 1 evidenced-based social emotional learning curriculum designed to help schools create a culture of kindness. Each unit teaches six core kindness concepts: Respect, Caring, Inclusiveness, Integrity, Responsibility, and Courage.
Utah's Pre-kindergarten Entry and Exit Profile (PEEP) is intended to inform various stakeholders, such as parents, teachers, and leadership, on the academic and essential for entering and exiting pre-kindergarten students. This sit has the manuals, training on administering the PEEP, and reports.
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Child(ren) will read the book Book Title with an adult for the first time. Story will be re-read several times during the week.
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Exemplary professional development publications in the areas of general instruction, science education, and literacy instruction in the elementary grades are described in each issue of Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle. This free, online magazine is structured around the seven essential principles of climate literacy and emphasizes integrating science and literacy skills in grades K-5.
This toolbox highlights thinking routines developed across a number of research projects at PZ. A thinking routine is a set of questions or a brief sequence of steps used to scaffold and support student thinking. PZ researchers designed thinking routines to deepen students' thinking and to help make that thinking “visible.”
The use of highly effective instructional practices in mathematics is the most productive way to improve a studentÕs mathematics achievement. When used in concert with effective instruction, personalized learning (PL) software is an invaluable tool that educators can use to both improve their instruction and more fully meet each studentsÕ needs.
The use of highly effective instructional practices in mathematics is the most productive way to improve a student’s
mathematics achievement. When used in concert with effective instruction, personalized learning (PL) software is an
invaluable tool that educators can use to both improve their instruction and more fully meet each students’ needs. It
should not be used to replace Tier 1 instructional time (see the Utah Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) for
Mathematics framework), but rather to help the educator meet their objectives and student meet learning goals.
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The stories we hear these days about education are largely focused either on the culture wars–what gets to be taught and what doesn’t–or how far students are “behind” in learning after nearly three pandemic school years. These stories are important, but what gets lost is the quiet revolution taking place across the nation–including in Kentucky–to modernize education for the future.
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Child(ren) will read the book Dragons Love Tacos with an adult for the first time. Story will be re-read several times during the week.
Child(ren) will read the book Dream Snow with an adult for the first time. Story will be re-read several times during the week.