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Nutrition is critical to overall child development. It impacts social, emotional, and physical development. This topic is close to the heart of this month’s guest speaker, Jamie Bonczyk. Jamie obtained her M.A. from
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One of my favorite wrap-around games for children is “I Have…Who Has”. A wrap-around game is one that begins with one child, circulates through all of the other children, and ends up back at the beginning
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This just in… New Immunization Laws for Schools, Child Care, and Early Childhood Programs: On Sept. 1, 2014, changes to the Minnesota’s Immunization Law will take effect for child care. The changes were made to be more
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Just In… Minnesota declares October 24 “Autism and Employment Day” Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton has made October 24 “Autism and Employment Day.”
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Today Sue Spector from Dakota County will be speaking with my Health, Safety, and Nutrition students about Child Passenger Safety. It’s such an informational training with critical information. Mom Enough recently highlighted
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Time: September 26, 2013 from 5pm to 7:30pm Location: MPS Culinary Center parking lot Street: 812 Plymouth Ave N City/Town: Minneapolis, MN Website: nutritionservices.mpls.k12.mn.us Phone: 612-668-2820 All are welcome to the
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Farm to School Now that school has started again, it can be difficult to know what your child is eating on a daily basis. You may try your hardest to provide fresh and healthy foods at home, but when they go to school often
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One of the courses I’m facilitating this fall at DCTC is Guiding Children’s Behaviors. This course examines positive strategies to guide children’s behavior in the early childhood setting. It also examines
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Environmental print is everywhere around us. In fact, you could say that it’s the first print a child starts to “read.” What is Environmental Print and how can you use it to educate young children?
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What a whirlwind week! A majority of classes began this week at DCTC. Thank you students for arriving on time, asking questions, staying on task, and actively participating in class. It’s going to be a great semester!
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It seems that nearly everywhere I go, young children are using technology- mostly ‘apps’. Have you noticed that too? Children in grocery carts, cars, doctor offices, etc., are asking their parents, “Can I play
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Choosing a Preschool That Is the Right Match for Your Child and Your Family: Insights from the Director of the University of Minnesota’s Laboratory School These days most of us know that a good preschool experience can give a
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Communicate with children more effectively earlier in life We usually offer our Sign Language in Early Childhood course during Spring Semester. However, I’m going to offer it this fall instead. This one-credit course gives
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Are you a MN parent? Did you know there’s a magazine just for you? Visit http://www.mnparent.com/ to access great resources related to parenting and MN resources.
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The Fourth Trimester: What Babies Experience – and What They Need – in the First Three Months of Life “When we become parents for the first time, we are plunged into a myriad of new experiences, with all the emotion
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It’s hard to be “mom enough” or “dad enough” even under the best of circumstances. But when stress, frustration or exhaustion consume us, parenting can feel downright impossible. But there are strategies we can use to
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The DCTC ECYD student club met on Monday, April 15th, to sew t-shirt bags as their Week of the Young Child service project. They re-purposed new and used t-shirts into bags. These bags will be used by an elementary school in
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I’m honored to introduce April’s guest speaker – Mary Jo Huff. Mary is an award-winning Author, Recording Artist, Storyteller, Early Childhood Educator, Puppeteer, Professional Development Presenter, Keynote
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“After the deaths of three babies in a little more than a year, Dakota County is preparing a wake-up campaign to motivate home child-care providers to put infants down to sleep on their backs.” -Star Tribune
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Making Meals, Making Memories Adventures in healthy eating can start long before the food is on the table. The adventure can begin in the kitchen by involving young children in meal preparation! Besides making great memories,
