Celebrating Week of the Young Child 2017

Celebrating NAEYC’s Week of the Young Child

Week of the Young Child gives you the chance to celebrate young children – and gives us a reason to celebrate you! This week (and every week, all year long!), we’re so grateful to you for supporting and caring for our youngest learners and their families.

We hope you’ll incorporate some of these songs, recipes, experiences, and interactions from The Creative Curriculum^®into your week. So let’s have some fun, and get cooking, tasting, singing, creating—and celebrating!

Week of the Young Child Activities

Day of the Week	Daily Resources from The Creative Curriculum® for Preschool	Daily Resources from The Creative Curriculum® for Infants, Toddlers & Twos
Music Monday	Musical Junk	Hop Around
Tasty Tuesday	Five-Layer Dip Come Cook with Me Recipe Five-Layer Dip Come Cook with Me Recipe (Pictorial)	Veggie Mash-Up
Work Together Wednesday	Making a Mural	Playful Interactions
Artsy Thursday	Describing Art	Ramp Experiments
Family Friday	A Book About Me	Family Picture Walk

Each day includes one activity from our Intentional Teaching Cards™ (1), and one activity from our Mighty Minutes^® (2).

To download the day's activities, click on the corresponding Preschool or Infants, Toddlers, and Twos box.

Music Monday

Infants, Toddlers & Twos

ITC: P17, "Tap and Shake My Tambourine"

MM: 60, "On the Spot"

Preschool

ITC: M90, "Fruit Muffins"

MM: 166, "Bake a Cake"

Infants, Toddlers & Twos

ITC: M04, "Cookie-Cutter Fun"

MM: 07, "The Hungry Crane"

Preschool

ITC: SE27, "How Can We Help"

MM: 173, "Tiny Teamwork"

Infants, Toddlers & Twos

ITC: SE09, "Build It Up, Knock It Down"

MM: 19, "Time to Clean Up"

Preschool

ITC: LL76, "The 'Me' Book"

MM: 141, "The Happy Giant"

Infants, Toddlers & Twos

ITC: LL28, "Family Faces"

MM: 86, "Daddy Loves You"

Preschool

1 M80, "Pots & Pans Band"

2 190, "Imaginary Band"

Infants, Toddlers, and Twos

1 P17, "Tap and Shake My Tambourine"

2 60, "On the Spot"

Tasty Tuesday

Preschool

1 M90, "Fruit Muffins"

2 166, "Bake a Cake"

Infants, Toddlers, and Twos

1 M04, "Cookie-Cutter Fun"

2 07, "The Hungry Crane"

Work Together Wednesday

Preschool

1 SE27, "How Can We Help"

2 173, "Tiny Teamwork"

Infants, Toddlers, and Twos

1 SE09, "Build It Up, Knock It Down"

2 19, "Time to Clean Up"

Preschool

1 P34, "Clay Engraving"

2 122, "What Could This Be?"

Infants, Toddlers, and Twos

1 P10, "Icy Paintings"

2 94, "Detailed Descriptions"

Family Friday

Preschool

1 LL76, "The 'Me' Book"

2 141, "The Happy Giant"

Infants, Toddlers, and Twos

1 LL28, "Family Faces"

2 86, "Daddy Loves You"

Mighty Minutes^® for Preschool is a collection of 100 quick, playful, and engaging activities that are designed to inspire learning during "in-between" times. Each Mighty Minutes^® activity is linked to learning objectives found in both The Creative Curriculum^® and GOLD^®, and can be used anytime and anywhere to intentionally teach language, literacy, math, science, social studies, and physical skills. The Mighty Minutes^® available here are from our new More Mighty Minutes^® collection.

Mighty Minutes^® for Infants, Toddlers, & Twos is a collection of 100 short, playful rhymes, songs, chants and games that offer brief learning activities that can help teachers and caregivers intentionally support social-emotional, language, literacy, math, science, social studies, and physical skills during routines and experiences. Each Mighty Minutes^® activity focuses on an objective for development and learning found in The Creative Curriculum^® and GOLD^®, making even the shortest activities meaningful and filled with warm interactions.

Intentional Teaching experiences make it easier for caregivers and teachers to individualize routines and experiences for infants, toddlers, and twos and individualize instruction for preschool children. Color-coded progressions of development and learning span the years from birth through kindergarten, so teachers and caregivers can consider full developmental sequences as they scaffold children’s learning and track children’s progress.

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