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Circle Time Observation and Reflection Form

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Circle Time Observation and Reflection Form

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqJx51vTnHg

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Going Beyond Cupcakes: Reggio Inspired Birthday Traditions

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Birthday Traditions are an important component to celebrating children in your class. A birthday tradition celebrates the day with a special tradition rather than food. It goes deeper than the cupcake and engrains from an early age the importance of celebrating one another on special days.

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Woodland Park’s 3-5 class begins each year in an official state of anarchy. Naturally, the adults adher...

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http://teachertomsblog.blogspot.com/2018/07/its-circle-time.html

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The only time during our school day that we expect all the children to convene together is at circle time: 15-30 mi...

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Calendar Time for Young Children: Good Intentions Gone Awry

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Calendar Time for Young Children: Good Intentions Gone Awry

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https://www.naeyc.org/sites/default/files/globally-shared/downloads/PDFs/resources/pubs/calendartime.pdf

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I Love You Rituals from Conscious Discipline 

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I Love You Rituals from Conscious Discipline 

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Dr. Bailey designed I Love You Rituals as a playful means to promote optimal brain development, increase attention span, reduce hyperactivity, build self-esteem, amplify cooperation and facilitate language development. These transformative rituals can be enjoyed in an adult-child setting or between children, and are appropriate from 15 months through elementary school.

I Love You Rituals are structured connecting activities that include eye contact, touch, presence and playfulness. Families benefit from I Love You Rituals at bedtime, morning routine, before or after meals, when saying goodbye, while on the diapering table, and more. Classrooms benefit from I Love You Rituals in routines like the Brain Smart Start, during circle time and after transitions. Teachers and individual students benefit from scheduling regular one-on-one I Love You Rituals with children call for help through difficult behaviors like aggression, tantrums or withdrawal.

I Love You Rituals are helpful for all children, but are particularly essential to fostering healthy connection and development when enjoyed with children with challenging behaviors, who are at-risk or who experience special needs.

Some of our top I Love You Rituals are featured on the I Love You Rituals Poster Set and the I Love You Rituals on a String. Music that supports the I Love You Rituals can be found on the Songs for I Love You Rituals CDs, Volume 1 and Volume 2.

Video Examples: I Love You Rituals in Shubert's Classroom

Photo Examples: I Love You Rituals in Shubert's Classroom

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Dr. Bailey designed I Love You Rituals as a playful means to promote optimal brain development, increase attention span, reduce hyperactivity, build self-esteem, amplify cooperation and facilitate language development. These transformative rituals can be enjoyed in an adult-child setting or between children, and are appropriate from 15 months through elementary school.

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When Did We Turn Circle Time Into a Noun Instead of a Verb?

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When Did We Turn Circle Time Into a Noun Instead of a Verb?

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https://www.transformece.com/blog/p6jbmj68fezt7tt-d54ba-xrhhn-fx88h

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I recently asked a group of young children to tell me about circle time. They immediately pointed to a space in their classroom and said "that is circle time."

Circle time is not meant to be a space in our classrooms.

Circle time is a verb.

Circle time is the intentional practice of creating community.

It is child-led

It can take place at any time of the day in any location.

Why talk about the weather in our temperature-controlled classrooms?

Go outside and experience the weather!

Feel the hot sticky air on your skin.

Stomp in the puddles as it rains.

Watch your breath as it turns into clouds.

Toddlers love to play the game "My Mommy." They will go back and forth saying this phrase. This is the perfect time for an intentional teacher to observe the interaction, ask questions, and share a story about families.

Children tend to work through a lot of friendship struggles from age 4-5. If an intentional teacher observes children navigating friendship dynamics on the playground, they can use that experience to create community.

Working together, they can create a small stage area, adding costumes and props, etc. This can be used to act out friendship scenarios and other dramatizations.

Take a minute to think about circle time in your classroom. Is it a noun, or is it a verb? How can you grow your teaching practices in this area?

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Transforming Early Childhood Education LLC

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I recently asked a group of young children to tell me about circle time. They immediately pointed to a space in their classroom and said "that is circle time." Circle time is not meant to be a space in our classrooms. Circle time is a verb.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mBgz2BhMw0

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Morning Meetings: Building Community in the Classroom

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Morning Meetings: Building Community in the Classroom

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6_pLkwaCeY

**This is a video with school-age children, but the ideas and premise behind the ways they utilize their morning meetings to build community is relevant!

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Morning Meetings: Building Community in the Classroom

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8L8MMrRkGQ

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Emotionally Responsive Circle Time Songs

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Emotionally Responsive Circle Time Songs

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Developmental Milestones from Lesley Koplow

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Developmental Milestones from Lesley Koplow