Keyword: Self Care/Life Skills
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Dental Health for Babies and Young Children
Strong baby teeth are essential to a child’s health. Families can help promote healthy dental care habits and prevent childhood tooth decay.
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Recipes for Learning: A Baking Project
The topic of baking began to generate interest in the classroom after one child began baking with his grandmother at home.
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Families, Social-Emotional Learning, and the Pandemic
In this podcast, we speak with Kelly Russell, the program director of CU Early, which serves infants, toddlers, and expectant parents in Champaign, Urbana, and Mahomet. We explore how the pandemic has changed service delivery for home visits, developmental screenings, and support groups. We also delve into the changing social and emotional needs of families…
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Physical Development and Health
This section of guidelines describes how infants and toddlers learn to move their bodies, take in their world through their senses, and carry out self-care routines. This section also explains how physical skills progress through development as young children’s bodies grow stronger and more able to move purposefully and with ease during everyday play and…
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Going to Kindergarten?
Getting required health checks, practicing key skills, and visiting your new school can help your child make a smooth transition.
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Try and Try Again (audio)
This podcast, based on a blog written by Dr. Rebecca Swartz, provides information about how adults can help young children develop persistence to try and try again when they encounter everyday challenges. To see the main text of the podcast, you can read the original blog post. Related IEL Resources Blog: Try and Try Again
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Healthy Teeth! Early Brushing and Early Visits to the Dentist
Do you remember your child’s first tooth and how it changed her smile? That first tooth is also a reminder to start good dental habits.
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Snack Time
This interaction demonstrates the teachers’ cooperation and understanding of their roles in classroom management. It also demonstrates appropriate teacher-child interactions at the snack table.
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Mix and Count
This video shows 22-month-old Waylon helping his grandmother mix pancake batter for breakfast. His 6-year-old brother, Luke, and his father talk off camera. In the video, we see adults using strategies for interaction that help Waylon learn about the world.
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Please Pass the Water
Maddie demonstrates that the children at this center are comfortable with pouring their own drinks at snack.
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Pour It! Stir It! Yum!
Cooking is a wonderful way to engage children and provide rich learning opportunities. Cooking engages the senses and gives children hands-on opportunities to explore food.
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Use Care, Imagination When Introducing New Snacks
Snacks are an important part of children’s daily nutrition. Children may eat a little one day and more the next day. Their eating may relate to appetite, familiarity with a snack, or sensory aspects of the food, known as “snack appeal.”
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Chores and Children: A Time to Learn
Preschoolers need step-by-step instructions for new tasks and time to practice. Keep the tasks simple. Demonstrate as needed. Most children will learn quickly from observation. Other children benefit from friendly reminders and visual supports.
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It Takes Money: Economics for Preschoolers
Here are some ways to help 4- and 5-year-olds begin learning how people trade money for things they need and want.
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Drama and Young Children
Here are some ways you can encourage the children in your program to engage in dramatic play.
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Who Are the People in Your Neighborhood?
Teachers can help children understand more about their communities and think about what they might like to do when they grow up by helping children identify a variety of community workers and the many services they provide.
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Predicting: Helping Preschoolers Look Ahead
Prediction skills are important in literacy, math, science, and social development.
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Out and About with Preschoolers: The Places You’ll Go!
Go ahead—take those young social scientists outside!
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Cooperation in the Preschool Classroom: Class Discussions
Class discussions can teach children respect for others, communication skills, how to interact with peers and adults, and how to vote.