For Your Binder

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How many songs do you know??? Memorize them memorize them memorize them!  Need assistance?  Search Lisa's YouTube to watch the ones you need and want to learn!  #songs #singing #music #handouts

Want to watch the whole workshop?  Got a DVD player? Lisa has DVDs of all her workshops! #oldschool  

To Food?! Or Not to Food?!?!
2022

Whether PRO or CON - what is the intention behind your choice? Originally penned in 2006 but revised before posting here on the new website, you will find this to be a handy resource when considering the age old debate of using food in the classroom!  #play #teaching 

The COVID generation: how is the pandemic affecting kids' brains?
2022

Child development researchers are asking whether the COVID pandemic is shaping brains and behavior. #teaching #learning 

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The Impact of Rough and Tumble Play
2020

This is a brief - yet rich - overview of a few benefits of rough & tumble play!  #play #powerplaying #DAP

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Dressing the Part
2022

Are we disguising bad teaching with nice clothes??? #teaching

Children's Hideouts- Shelters (Dens): A creation archetype
2013

Did you have the hidden power of knowing about a "secret spot"? #dens #forts #outside #play

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We Are Gunslinging Girls: Gender and Place in Playground Clapping Games
2015

I think it's fair to say that singing and hand clapping games play a relevant role in a child's life both culturally and developmentally.  In this paper, the authors defend the idea that clapping games play a big part of girlhood in Catalonia (Spain).  #recess #play #songs #DAP #playground

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What is Happening to Fine Motor Development?
2016

To put it bluntly, Guddemi says that lacking fine motor skills is not "fine" in Kindergarten! #teaching #learning #DAP #play #pushdown #reading #writing

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Sensory-Motor Reading Readiness for School
2012

Dr. Johnson has seen children diagnosed with AD/HD or learning disabilities “miraculously” improve when they are taken out of “academic” kindergartens or given an extra year in a developmental kindergarten that emphasizes movement, play, and the integration of their sensory-motor systems.  #DAP #play #teaching #learning #movement #reading #writing

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Leave No Child Inside
2007

Read more about the growing movement to reconnect children & nature and how to battle nature deficit disorder. The future of children in nature has profound implications not only for the conservation of land but also for the direction of the environmental movement. #outside #nature #play

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The Underestimation of America's Preschool Teachers
2016

It's hard for some to think that working with littles is just as complex as working with olders because historically we have implied that anyone can do it.  #teaching #learning #care #relationships

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School of Hard Knocks
2012

Present company excluded, it is often a surprise that characteristics such as persistence, self control and curiosity are more important than sheer brainpower when it comes to being "successful"  #play #resilience #DAP #teaching #learning 

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