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Breathing Exercises for Kids: 7 to Teach in a Calm Corner
Seven breathing exercises children can learn from a poster, with the steps for each, which ones suit pre-K and which suit older kids, and how to practice them so they work when...
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Classroom Safety Lessons: An 8-Week Plan, One Chart a Week
A week-by-week plan for teaching classroom safety in K to 2, one chart at a time: what order to teach the eight topics, how...
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Calm Corner Visuals: What to Put on the Wall and Why
Which calm corner visuals actually help a child calm down, which ones are decoration, how many to hang, and how high, with a breakdown...
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Safety Corner vs. Calming Corner: What's the Difference?
A Calming Corner and a Safety Corner sit on the same supply list and get mistaken for the same idea. They are not. Here...
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Safety Corner Ideas: How to Set Up and Decorate
A safety corner is one small patch of wall that does a specific job, and most of them fail for layout reasons rather than...
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Classroom Setup Ideas: A Wall by Wall Plan
A practical layout guide for setting up a classroom: giving each wall a job, hanging at student eye level instead of adult eye level,...
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