On Hands Are Not For Hitting: Activities designed around popular chldren's books

Hi George and LaiWan,

 

To find the book nook- scroll down this page, on the right you will see the sun, click on www.vanderbilt.edu/csefel/  When that page comes up click on the apple for teachers and caregivers. When that page comes up you will see the Book Nook, click on that for the books. Thanks for a great two hours yesterday. I admire everyone's skill, knowledge, insight and intuition.

 

Happy weekend! Linda

 

This was the note Linda sent after our last meeting. Linda really likes the Book Nook on the CSEFEL site. -gw

 

These easy-to-use guides were created especially for teachers/caregivers and parents to provide hands-on ways to embed social emotional skill building activities into everyday routines. Each book nook is comprised of ideas and activities designed around popular children’s books such as Big Al, Hands are Not for Hitting, On Monday When it Rained and My Many Colored Days. Examples of suggested activities include using rhymes to talk about being friends, making emotion masks to help children identify and talk about different feelings, playing games around what to do with hands instead of hitting and fun music and movement activities to express emotions.

 

http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/resources/strategies.html

 

On You Saw It Here First: There is a lot of math in EHS activities ... and football

Yesterday as I observed an Early Head Start home-visitor do her magic with a parent and toddler, I heard her say that the activity she had brought taught concepts of physics and algebra. She had three golf balls in a cardboard box caroming off the walls, in the process making neat designs on a piece of paper in the bottom of the box to which she had added some drops of tempura paint. Boy, was I impressed with her reference to math and science! Kudos to her! I thought, of course, of Bill the Math Man and his presentation at our February meeting about teaching math to preschoolers.

On Introducing Math Concepts At a Very Early Age: Measuring with ribbons

You saw the post here first. It ran on these "pages" but, with some minor changes, was subsequently reposted (I had something to do with it) on two other blogs -- viewed 202 times on one blog and 558 times on the other. A very popular post.! Ah, the power of blogging. Our blog -- this one -- is at 2000 site views, BTW.
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+On Introducing Math Concepts At a Very Early Age: There is a lot of math in football

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http://myriadsocialspaces.posterous.com/on-introducing-math-concepts-at-a-very-early

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It also ran here. -gw
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http://bahaiviews.posterous.com/on-introducing-math-concepts-at-a-very-early

On High Tech in Kansas: Reaching moms through texting

 

The way they do it in Kansas. Informing moms about what they need to know to care for their baby by texting. -gw

 

On Reflective Supervision: Space for providers to become aware of and attend to their own feelings

The ultimate goal of reflective practice is to improve the quality of early childhood services through increasing organizational capacity and enhancing provider competency. Often providers are faced with trauma of the families they work with and this trauma can trigger their own pain and suffering.  The experience the provider brings to the relationship can get in the way of working effectively with families unless there is a venue to explore, understand, and distill the negative or difficult emotions elicited from the work...The early years of development...are particularly critical...It is essential that providers have consistent space to become aware of and attend to their own feelings to avoid responses that can lead to unintended and negative consequences.

                                                                --    Rebecca Shamoon Shanok, 2009
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http://multiplyingconnections.org/reflective-supervision
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The above excerpt from a piece promoting an upcoming conference on the East Coast reminds us of why supervision is important, and what that supervision should look like. -gw
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Learn More About Reflective Supervision

* Reflecting on Reflective Practice: http://www.multiplyingconnections.org/

* Zero to Three: http://www.zerotothree.org/

* Michigan Association of Infant Mental Health: http://www.mi-aimh.org/

On Who We Are: And what we talk about

Here is a self-spoken profile of a Peninsula's Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation Group participant.
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What do we do at PECMHG meetings? We share insights and information about resources, as below a discussion about working with non-English-speaking families and the use of iPhone apps for language translation. -gw
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