Next week is NAEYC’s 2022 Week of the Young Child® celebration! HiMama is joining in on the celebrations for early learning, young children, their educators, and families. The Week of…
Resources for developing literacy skills at a young age
Literacy is one of the most important skills a child can develop. Providing activities for children to help develop this lifelong skill is an exciting responsibility when you have access…
Sensory play in the classroom: best practices
Children learn from their environments, so creating an environment that supports a healthy (and varied) sensorial-based experience will promote self-awareness, preliminary math, and science-based skills! In order for these activities…
7 classroom strategies to support emotional development in children
In a recent webinar, we welcomed back Prerna Richards, CEO, and Founder of Together We Grow. Prerna dove into the successes for social-emotional classroom management. She showed us how we…
Avoiding fatigue and repetition: activity inspiration
As childcare professionals, sometimes we feel like we are a character in the movie Groundhog Day, where Bill Murray wakes up every morning to the exact same day over and…
The importance of physical education for young children
Our young learners love to get up and move throughout the day. Physical activity breaks up monotony within the classroom, gets children excited to participate, and allows them to get…
Teaching emotions to young children: tips and tricks
There is so much power behind naming our emotions. We want to teach children a broad emotional vocabulary so that they are able to label their feelings and we are better able…
Teaching math skills in the early years
It can be easy to assume that numeracy and math skills are more developmentally appropriate for older children. While it’s true that rote mathematical learning can be effective for the…
Meaningful music: choosing and using songs as a memory device in early learning
Learning and absorbing new information, recognizing changes in a schedule, and choosing healthy emotional responses can be as easy as “do, re, mi”, when you use a familiar song as…
Using shaving cream for engaging classroom activities
“IT’S SO FLUFFY!” a preschooler once said in my classroom with a delighted shriek. He was reacting to a shaving cream sensory bin – and what a relatable reaction it…