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Designing Obstacle Courses! Fun Ways to Build Language and Motor Skills

August 5, 2022

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In this month’s featured project, the children enjoyed playing through and designing obstacle courses in the town square.

Filed Under: Calendar & News, Featured Project, School Tagged With: featured project, fine motor, language development, literacy, motor skills, obstacle course, problem-solving, well-being

Piece by Piece: The Importance of Puzzles in a Preschool Classroom

July 11, 2022

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This month’s featured project included an exploration of puzzles to help build cognitive and problem-solving skills as well as teamwork.

Filed Under: Calendar & News, Featured Project, School Tagged With: cognitive, collaboration, featured project, fine motor, laguage, problem-solving, puzzle, social skills, teamwork

Math, Science, Motor, and Social Development: Exploring Ramp Work

April 28, 2022

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Featured project from May 2022 by Virginia Nicoloulias & Dilshad Tolliver in classroom 134. Math, Science, Motor, & Social Development: Exploring Ramp Work.

Filed Under: Calendar & News, Featured Project, School Tagged With: early childhood education, fine motor, math, math skills, motor skills, science, science skills, social development, social-emotional

“Natural” Curiosity

July 15, 2021

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FEATURED PROJECT: Teachers took the opportunity to build upon the children’s natural curiosity around plants. They creatively created a full curriculum to enhance the children’s learning and development.

Filed Under: Calendar & News, Featured Project, School Tagged With: child's interest, development, fine motor, language, literacy, pre-k, preschool, teacher, writing

“WOAH!” Stacking and crashing: a study on blocks and balancing

December 29, 2020

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FEATURED PROJECT: Our teachers noticed that the children were very interested in stacking and crashing, so they took the opportunity to build on this natural curiosity for extended learning opportunities covering a range of early learning standard domains.

Filed Under: Calendar & News, Featured Project, School Tagged With: blocks, build, cognitive, curiosity, developmental, fine motor, math, Ohio early learning standards, social-emotional

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