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As an early childhood professional, you're well aware of the seemingly insatiable need of children to express themselves by making noise - a lot of noise! Rhythm instruments provide a uniquely effective way to respect and satisfy this need, while gently guiding young children toward expressing themselves musically.

Every Monday morning my parents come into class from 8:50-9:10am to read and play reading games with their children. It gives me the opportunity to mill about and model how to segment and blend to read, amongst other reading skills. It has been very successful and always sets the day off to a great start!

As a preschooler teacher who spends a fair amount of time with our youngest learners, you play an important role in helping children develop important social-emotional skills.

The early childhood years are some of the most important. The tone set by a child's early years can pervade the rest of its life, even outside of academia.

Bullying can pose a serious threat to children's immediate and long-term health and well-being, and can have profound impacts on all children involved in bullying behaviors, whether as the one bullying others, the one being bullied, or the one witnessing bullying.

Stories - whether told through picture books, dance, images, math equations, songs or oral retellings - are one of the most fundamental ways in which we communicate.

This report from Child Trends and the National Center for Children in Poverty includes a review of the prevalence of early childhood trauma and its effects.

As children are growing and learning how to express themselves, they may have a hard time communicating to others about how they're feeling. While it's important to teach your students about different feelings and what they mean, you can also teach them to channel their feelings through art.

An appropriate environment can maximize children's intellectual potential and provide a foundation for the development of their emotional security.

Some of the nation's top researchers who've spent their careers studying early childhood education recently got together in Washington with one goal in mind: to cut through the fog of studies and the endless debates over the benefits of preschool.