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Related Websites for Ages & Stages

Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development (or http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/piaget.html)

Natural Wonders: A Guide to Early Childhood for Environmental Educators –  go to “Natural Wonders”

How Process-Focused Art Experiences Support Preschoolers – Teaching Young Children February/March 2014

Zero to Three-Brain Wonders

Developmentally Appropriate Practice – National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)

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Life Under Your Feet

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Explore earthworms. If the weather isn't warm enough for earthworms to be out, save for later! Check out the activity!

Max’s Corner

April is National Poetry Month

Ask children if they know what poetry is? Have they heard poems? Are books poems? Discuss. Read a few poems about nature and wildlife. Listen to nature songs and music - since songs are poems set to music! Try “Billy B” Brennan, Stan Slaughter, or The Banana Slug String Band.

As a class, create your own illustrated nature poetry book. Go on a nature walk, find a quiet place to sit, listen, and reflect. Record students’ observations and feelings. Allow children time to draw pictures of what they see or how they feel while in nature. When you return to the classroom, as a class, create/write poems from the children’s observations. Compile a book of the children’s drawings and poetry.

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