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Second Home: A Day in the Life of a Model Early Childhood Program By Claire Bainer and Liisa Hale Redleaf Press, 2007 Available at Redleafpress.org Poised to reinvent mainstream views of quality child care, Second Home narrates a typical day’s activities at BlueSkies, to help teach providers how to create thoughtful and developmentally appropriate programs that incorporate the best qualities of a loving home and the cognitive challenges of a preschool. A chapter for each age group—from infants to five-year-olds—describes typical teacher-child interactions, with an explanation of the research supporting the teachers’ methods. Beyond the Curriculum: How Responsive Relationships and Thoughtful Teaching Enhance Quality By BlueSkies for Children (formerly Association of Children's Services), 2003 Available on VHS and DVD at Redleafpress.org Creating the calm yet productive classroom involves an understanding of children's relationships with the teacher, other children, and their environment. Beyond the Curriculum presents a child-centered approach that shows how creating a relationship-based foundation to curriculum planning gives children the social and emotional reference they need to become active, engaged, responsible learners and members of society. Growing Through Play: Cognitive and Social Development By BlueSkies for Children (formerly Association of Children's Services), 1991 Available on VHS and DVD at Redleafpress.org Growing Through Play gives you a guided tour of how children learn important cognitive and social skills through their play, from preliteracy skills to social interaction. Containing authentic footage of children in a diverse classroom setting, this instructionally designed video shows each of Mildred Parten's Stages of Play in action and makes the connection between each stage of play and how it relates to the learning styles of children of different ages. Growing Through Play also demonstrates the role well planned environments play in a child's successful progression throughout the different stages of play. |
From Diapers to Underpants By Claire Bainer and Liisa Hale Young Children, The Journal of the National Association for the Education of Young Children, Volume 55, Number 4, July 2000 The BlueSkies Banner (formerly the Brookdale Banner) is the monthly newsletter produced by BlueSkies for Children (pdf). Click
here to access the archive
of newsletters dating back to February 2002.
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