This resource gives teachers and supervisors in extended day programs a store of high-quality yet easy-to-do activities that are both challenging and relaxing for children. The 200 activities included are so clearly presented that many students can complete them independently. Includes crafts, songs, rainy day activities, and more.
Easy ways to plan daily activities for times when children are not in school. All activities are time-frame oriented to help you become more involved with children during these time periods.
You want the best for your kids, but resources are limited and you’re overloaded with information. From the moment your kids are born, the kiddie-perfecting complex is pushing you to buy-buy-buy. And playtime is no different. You feel pressured to sign the kids up for an ever-escalating array of classes and clinics, send them to the right sleep-away or math enrichment camp, soccer clinic, ballet, art, and music classes—or else they’re doomed to fail. Right? Not so fast. Lifestyle guru Rosalyn Hoffman knows that kids need balance: time to be bored and find their own inner resources, time to ride their bikes and shoot hoops, time to experience the joy of free play. And when it’s time to sign them up for organized activities, Hoffman offers sane guidance for navigating the world of lessons and programs, explaining how to get them in everything from art classes to music lessons to sports to camp—without breaking the bank.
What are student activities? Why do schools have student activity groups? What are the benefits for students, schools, and communities? These are some of the questions that Student Activities in Today's Schools addresses. Klesse has reviewed relevant educational research to provide an overview of the essential learning for all youth that is available from participation. What are those benefits and who benefits? Why don't all young people participate? Are there ways to make student activity programs in schools more inclusive? What will these programs look like in 5, 10, and 15 years? Schools must educate and develop our youth to meet the challenge of participation and survival in a global economy. The skills learned through student activities provide the foundation for adult participation as citizens of our democracy. So, how do we best prepare our young people for the future? Read this book to find out.
Whether an administrator, faculty member, classroom teacher, or special area teacher, everyone wants to see their students learning improve. Improved learning validates the roles and influences of educators and administrators. The purpose of this book is to assist educators in how to create a physically active school. Understanding the role physical activity and/or movement plays in the gymnasium and the classroom will contribute significantly to this effort. Movement helps to differentiate instruction, by increasing retention, motivation, attention, and engagement in the learning process. It should be utilized for its full potential benefits in both the classroom and gymnasium. The solution begins and ends with the decisions we make. Children are not getting as much physical activity as they should, despite the many benefits. It is important to establish good physical activity habits as early as possible. So how do we do that? By making physical activity and quality physical education a part of your schools culture by increasing the amount of physical activity students participate in throughout the day, every day. It is critical that we take the steps now to educate and make a change in our students lives to help them lead a healthier, more productive life.
Frontiers in Sleep is committed to advancing developments in the field of sleep research by communicating scientific knowledge to researchers and the public alike, to enable the scientific breakthroughs of the future. In particular, the journal welcomes submissions that support and advance the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), notably SDG 3: good health and well-being. A better understanding of the impact of deficient and poor-quality sleep and sleep disorders on physical and mental health and performance is highly relevant with as many as 45% of the world’s population currently affected. Here we are pleased to introduce this Theme book entitled ‘Research Highlights from the first 100 accepted articles in Frontiers in Sleep’ edited by our Chief Editors of Frontiers in Sleep. This ebook aims to celebrate the milestone of the first 100 accepted articles in our journal by recognizing highly deserving authors and their outstanding research projects. The work presented here spotlights the broad diversity of exciting research performed across the journal. We hope you enjoy our selection of key articles. We also thank all authors, editors, and reviewers of Frontiers in Sleep for their contributions to our journal and look forward to another exciting year in 2024.
Based on research about after-school experiences and dilemmas conducted over a four-year period with employed parents and their children, this book draws on the stories these parents and children told--often using their actual words--to emphasize the wide variety of children's after-school arrangements, children's movement over time in and out of different arrangements, and the importance to children of multiple facets of their after-school arrangements, not simply the presence or absence of an adult caretaker. The book also emphasizes that children are not randomly assigned to after-school arrangements. Rather, parents and children struggle to reach optimal solutions to what are often difficult child care dilemmas. To understand these dilemmas, and the diverse strategies that families adopt, one must attend to the individual situations of children as family members understand them. This book was written to contribute to the development of new family and work policies and practices by illuminating the difficulties families face and their consequences for children. Written for psychologists, sociologists, and other social scientists who study families, maternal employment, child care, or child development, it will also be useful for parents, educators, community leaders, and public policymakers concerned about the well being of children whose parents are employed.
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