Reference Education Early Childhood

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• The Perpetual Preschool   - Over 6,000 free songs, crafts, games, snack ideas, and learning activities for preschool and kindergarten educators to use in the classrooms. Includes thematic units, professional development resources, and teacher forums.

• Ask The Preschool Teacher - A place to ask questions and get responses from qualified preschool teachers. Includes an archive of questions asked previously.
• A-to-Z Kids Stuff - Includes lesson plan themes, monthly calendars, educational activities, and free downloads appropriate for use with young learners.
• CanTeach - Resources for Educators - Features classroom management resources, children's songs and poetry, planning tools, and free lesson plans.
• Early Childhood Educators and Family Web Corner - Provides articles, message boards, chat area, and web guides.
• Early Childhood Educators Resources - Links to pages providing ideas for art, science, small group, circle time, and quiet time activities.
• Early Childhood Focus - Provides current news stories related to the profession. Allows users to submit news or discuss items, publications and press releases.
• Early Childhood Resources - Links to information about child development, curriculum, and parenting.
• Earlychildhood.com - Improving the education and general life experience of young children. Advice from experts in the early childhood field, creative projects, and sharing of ideas and questions with the early childhood community.
• EdnoLand.com - On-line preschool community provides resources for teachers and parents, as well as interactive activities for young children.
• Everything Preschool - Includes lesson plans, art, songs, thematic units, and book reviews.
• Facts in Action - Summarizes early education research and policy for parents, teachers, advocates, and policymakers . From the Early Education Clearinghouse.
• First School - Features activity calendar, educational themes, crafts, printable activities, and other resources in English and Spanish.
• Hummingbird Educational Resources - Includes lesson plan ideas, links, message board, and links.
• The Idea Box - Site aimed at parents and teachers of young children offers games, songs, kid recipes, craft ideas, and message boards.
• Kinder Korner - Resource website for Pre-K through 2nd-grade teachers and includes an early childhood education discussion list with more than 1,200 subscribers.
• Marilee Schuhrke's Page - Offers topically-organized annotated links to help teachers develop thematic units.
• Mothergoose.com - Free activities, crafts, games, and printables for ages 3 to 6.
• MuddlePuddle Early Years Home Education - Features thematic activities parents may do at home with toddlers; many games reflect the Montessori approach. Includes a support list and information on Cleft Lip and Palate.
• Pratt's Educational Resources: Early Childhood Education - Includes thematic activities, games, recipes, coloring pages, songs, and fingerplays.
• Pre-K Directory of Schools - Large, searchable directory of U.S. preschools.
• The Pre-kinder Corner - A site for 4- and 5-year-olds, their parents, and teachers of preschool students. Activities, curriculum, schedules, and important early childhood links.
• Preschool by Stormie - Monthly curriculum and lesson plan ideas.
• Preschool Education - Activities for the preschool and kindergarten classroom grouped by theme, and a free newsletter.
• Preschool Printables - Provides free printable calendars, classroom news, awards, bulletin boards, file folder games, charts, and so forth.
• The Rainbow Bag - Activities and ideas for parents and teachers of young children. Also includes a page on frequently asked interview questions for beginning teachers.
• Recipes 4 Learning - Free kids recipes, crafts, learning games, songs, and poems.
• Sherry's Kindergarten - Lesson plans and favorite links for preschool and kindergarten. Changes monthly.
• Step By Step Theme Pages - Offers book recommendations, songs, fingerplays, and art activities for more than themes.
• Suzyque: Cyber Preschool - Offers fingerplays, snack recipes, art ideas, printables, and curriculum calendar. Activities grouped by months and themes.
• Tammy's Teaching Tips - Provides tips, themes, ideas, and activities for preschool teachers as well as elementary teachers.
• Teaching is a Work of Heart - Site updated monthly provides thematic activities and screened links.
• Technology and Young Children - Includes information about educational practices, research, funding. A project of the National Association for the Education of Young Children.
• Technology in Early Childhood Education - Assists educators in connecting technology with the way young children learn. Includes information about technology and curriculum, project planning, classroom arrangement, software selection, ergonomics, and internet safety.
• Web Corner Index: Teacher Pages - Hundreds of organized links related to early childhood issues.