Our early childhood educators are overworked, underpaid, and (in some cases) massively undervalued. Lesson planning is critical to your success as an educator, but it can also be a royal pain, especially when you're just starting out in the field.
In talking to so many childcare workers, they all have the same thing to say: executing the plan and seeing the joy spring to life in all of those little faces is incredibly rewarding, but the thought of trying to come up with that many ideas to build a lesson plan for a full calendar year is exhausting. It's usually one of the things they find they procrastinate and force themselves into doing.
This book is designed to help early educators with easy-to-implement ideas for their lesson plans that incorporate that concept of celebration & play in the classroom learning environment. Kickstart that creativity and inject a little bit of fun into your lesson planning with a cheat sheet of ideas to can use to fill out your lesson plans for the year. In this book, you'll find 365 days of ideas for incorporating educational play & celebration in your childcare center, classroom, or nursery. Each day's activity is tied to a national (USA) observance day or month. Some are serious, and others are very, very silly.
Take these ideas to turn your classroom into a celebratory learning lab with that can help your students to learn real-world information through fun, engaging activities. Regardless of how many of these ideas you choose to incorporate into your lesson plans and curriculum, this will be your go-to guide for all things fun and entertaining for your classroom. It can be modified based on the age group of your students. They are sure to love it, and who knows, maybe you will learn a thing or two along the way