Quality Childcare

Quality Childcare

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Quality Childcare
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Natural Playscapes / Playgrounds
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Natural Playscapes / Playgrounds / Great examples of natural playgrounds, information on the importance of unstructured learning, and even some how-tos!
Let's Celebrate Spring!
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Let's Celebrate Spring! / It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want – oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so! -Mark Twain
Arts & Crafts for Little Kids
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Arts & Crafts for Little Kids / Quality child care explores color and texture and promotes development of fine motor skills. Help little ones unleash their creativity with these arts and craft ideas.
Outdoor Learning
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Outdoor Learning / What if your quality child care program saw the outdoors as one big giant opportunity for learning? Find some great ideas on this board.
Let's Go Fly a Kite!
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Let's Go Fly a Kite! / Welcome spring this year with some creative, colorful kite crafts!
Explore, Discover, Learn
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Explore, Discover, Learn / Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science. ~Edwin Powell Hubble, The Nature of Science, 1954
Loving our planet
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Loving our planet / Resources for Earth Day, recycling, eco-healthy living, upcycling craft ideas and more.
Get Ready For Reading
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Get Ready For Reading / Quality childcare provides a jump start to reading for all children. From learning the alphabet to recognizing sounds to holding a book and turning the page here are some activities and tips to inspire a new generation of readers!
Recognizing Shapes
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Recognizing Shapes / Ideas for teaching shapes in your early childhood education programs.
1, 2, 3 Count With Me!
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1, 2, 3 Count With Me! / What comes after a million, billion and trillion? A quadrillion, quintillion, sextillion, septillion, octillion, nonillion, decillion and undecillion! Why don't we start with 1, 2, 3...
Colors of the Rainbow
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Colors of the Rainbow / Activities to teach and reinforce color recognition for toddlers, preschoolers, and preK.
Healthy Food for Kids
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Healthy Food for Kids / Healthy food is essential to growth and development and a fundamental part of quality child care. This board offers recipes, tips and nutritional information to help you dish up nourishing food that little kids will love to eat!
Testimonials
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Testimonials
I Can Do It Myself!
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I Can Do It Myself!
Especially for Parents
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Especially for Parents / Parenting a little one is no easy job! Use these tips to make every day more educational for your children, and less stressful for you.
Kids, Families & Communities
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Kids, Families & Communities / Quality child care includes involving parents and connecting with community. There are many ways to create opportunities for children to develop a connection with their communities. This board provides inspiration.
Grow and Learn with Early Educator Central
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Grow and Learn with Early Educator Central / Early Educator Central is a multi-faceted website containing tools to support the work of all roles in the ECE sector.
What's New
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What's New / Check out the latest news and announcements on this board. Good happenings that contribute to quality child care.
Animal Cams
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Animal Cams / Warning: You may get stuck watching these wonderful, live, animal cams for long periods of time! This board provides links to live animal cameras at various zoos and animal preservations. Here’s an idea, after you read a book about an elephant to your kids, pull up a live elephant cam to watch together. Quality child care stretches the learning experience!
Why Invest in Pre-K?
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Why Invest in Pre-K? / There are a variety of reasons pre-K is important, including the academic, social-emotional, economic, and societal benefits. What tools (i.e., factoids, infographics, personal stories, videos, etc.) would you use to advocate for greater investments in preschool education? Include them here for all of us to share!
Eco-Friendly Child Care
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Eco-Friendly Child Care / Increasing the quality of child care and maintaining a healthy environment go hand in hand. This board offers ideas and how-to instructions for greening your program. Usually going green helps you save some green too!
Stuff We Love for Teachers
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Stuff We Love for Teachers / We love teachers! This board is dedicated to those overworked, underpaid professionals who work tirelessly to make quality child care happen. Here you can find deals and discounts just for teachers, plus inspiration and humor for a little lift.
Child Care Safety
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Child Care Safety / If it’s not safe, it’s not quality child care. This board shares important links to child care tips, new safety products and information you will need in case of an emergency. It is a board worth sharing for life.
Business Resources for Child Care Providers
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Business Resources for Child Care Providers / We believe that in order to provide quality child care, your program must be running as a successful business. Here get practical tips that help make your program a business success.
Outer Space
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Outer Space / "Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star." -W. Clement Stone
Music
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Music / If “music be the food of love, play” - in your quality child care program, little ones. This board offers suggestions, links to songs and creative ways to explore music with tots.
Every Day is a Holiday!
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Every Day is a Holiday! / Have you ever heard of “Wiggle Your Toes Day?” How about “Make a Hat Day”? Stop by this board often to find creative ideas for learning while celebrating!
Handprints and Footprints
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Handprints and Footprints
Put That In Quotes
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Put That In Quotes / Education-related quotes, pinned to provide inspiration and maybe even a few laughs.
Dinosaurs
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Dinosaurs
Kids Olympics
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Kids Olympics / Quality Child Care includes movement and exercise. Get inspired by the Olympic games with these toddler-friendly activities and everybody wins!
Quality Childcare on Pinterest
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Quality Childcare on Pinterest / Hosted by ECE Shared Resources - for professionals dedicated to advancing child care quality. Be sure to follow all of our boards for useful tips and creative ideas from “Healthy Food for Kids” to “Child Care Safety” to “Outdoor Learning”.
DIY Halloween
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DIY Halloween / Creative do-it-yourself Halloween costume and craft ideas monsters of all ages will enjoy!
Giving Thanks
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Giving Thanks
Winter Wonderland
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Winter Wonderland
Celebrating Holiday Diversity
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Celebrating Holiday Diversity
Healthy Habits
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Healthy Habits