If you go to the teacher suggestions thread and find the post that has the ERIC link, just click on that and plug in early childhood or pre-school cognitive activities and you should find lots of articles. Also, interventioncentral.org is a good one too. Also, can do a search on the NASP website:
Look up preschool teacher sites. They will have tons of activities. Matching, sorting, counting, puzzles, patterns, sequencing, reading, singing, poems,fingerplays, wordplays, blocks, manipulatives,texture--all have cognitive benefits.
You should be able to get some early childhood /preschool /emergent/developmental (words you might use to search)curriculum books at the library or university library, too.
I'm lead teacher and curriculum director of a developmental preschool, so that's what I do all day.
It's been a loooonnnggg time since I've had pre-schoolers...but here's a website that looks really good! Pre-school activities and lessons
I can ask my sister-in-law today when we have lunch together...she ran a daycare in her home for years before going back to work part-time as a teacher!
I have decided that taking care of 2 kids under 5 for 9 hours straight, 5 days a week isn't what I really want to do. Even with structured activities and taking the older one to her activities....it would be very difficult.
I need to get out there with my college experience.
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If you go to the teacher suggestions thread and find the post that has the ERIC link, just click on that and plug in early childhood or pre-school cognitive activities and you should find lots of articles. Also, interventioncentral.org is a good one too. Also, can do a search on the NASP website:
National Assoc. of School Psychologists
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Look up preschool teacher sites. They will have tons of activities. Matching, sorting, counting, puzzles, patterns, sequencing, reading, singing, poems,fingerplays, wordplays, blocks, manipulatives,texture--all have cognitive benefits.
You should be able to get some early childhood /preschool /emergent/developmental (words you might use to search)curriculum books at the library or university library, too.
I'm lead teacher and curriculum director of a developmental preschool, so that's what I do all day.
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It's been a loooonnnggg time since I've had pre-schoolers...but here's a website that looks really good! Pre-school activities and lessons
I can ask my sister-in-law today when we have lunch together...she ran a daycare in her home for years before going back to work part-time as a teacher!
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Thanks for the suggestions. Tomorrow I interview for a nanny/preschool in-home position.
I also have an offer for an assignment with Kelly Temps....
Things are really looking
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I have decided that taking care of 2 kids under 5 for 9 hours straight, 5 days a week isn't what I really want to do. Even with structured activities and taking the older one to her activities....it would be very difficult.
I need to get out there with my college experience.
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Cindy!
Keep lookin, girl!
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