I am in the beginning stage of being a child care provider and need recommended activities for children 2-12?
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Children of ages 4 - 6 have the most creative mind in the world, more than any scientist. Explore their mind by open questions? No answer is wrong and never tell them that can't be done. Sample Question: How would you travel to the moon? What is the fastest thing you can think of? What is sound? What is light? \nThe best means to bring out their creativeness is a blank sheet of paper and coloring pencils or crayons.\nRemember NO ANSWER is Wrong!!!
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Here are FREE business plans on childcare business:\n\nhttp://www.sba.gov/library/pubs/mp-30.doc\nhttp://www.misbtdc.org/documents/BPWORKBK.pdf\nhttp://www.misbtdc.org/documents/CDCPLAN.pdf\nhttp://sbdcnet.utsa.edu/sbic/bplans.htm \n\nYou may want to read the free article "How To Start Your Own Day Care Center" http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol40/daycar... \n\nIt covers various aspects of starting and running a daycare center including the demand for daycare centers, how to start this business, shoestring strategies, how to operate a daycare center, tips on caring for the children, income potential, how to manage your daycare, marketing your business and other additional income potential. There are so many things to learn about the business that the first step is to read everything you can find.\n\nFor in-depth information, I suggest checking out the following books:\n\n- Start and Run a Profitable Home Day Care \n- The Daycare Provider's Workbook \n- Start Your Own At-Home Child Care Business \n- So You Want to Open a Profitable Child Care Center : \nEverything You Need to Know to Plan, Organize and Implement a Successful Program \n\nIt is also important that you learn the tax rules affecting daycare centers, especially if you are going to open one from your home. Here is the IRS page on child care centers: http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/industries/content/0,,id=99878,00.html\n\nFor licensing requirements, click on your state and this link provides the contact agency and website\n\nhttp://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/statedata/dirs/display.cfm?title=homepage\nhttp://nrc.uchsc.edu/STATES/states.htm
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Explain to the children what your expectations of them are during the practice. If need write it down in simple, straight forward, easy to understand terms. Give them a reward if all expectations are met and consequnces (or remove privileges) if they are not met. Make age appropriate rewards and consequences for the children of different ages. You may break them up into teams and have them strive for rewards as a group.
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I'm not a parent, but I am a teacher and tutor.  If you spend 1-2 hours a day twice a week and work on basic skills with your child I guarantee some growth.  Repetition, repetition, repetition!\n\nI would go to a "teacher store" and buy some basic work books.  Use plastic sheet covers or transparency sheet and dry erase markers so they can use the books over and over again.  \n\nUse index cards joined with a binder ring for flash cards (vocabulary and math).\n\nDon't let a video or game be your child's teacher.  I think you can spare 2 hours a week.  It'll benefit your child in two ways (quality time and educational growth).
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day cares, baby-sitter, perhaps there is an after-school program at your school or one nearby, churchs sometimes have a program, ymca, etc.
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I think that many of the 'family' theme activities would fit well into this theme.  Here are a few circle time activities:\n\nHave available several paperdolls.  I usually make these and laminate them so that after circle time they can be placed in the manipulative center to further the activity.  I make 3 of each doll--dad, mom, sister, brother, baby, grandma, grandpa, dogs and cats.  I start the circle time by telling them about an activity that I did with my own family over the weekend.  Then I show them the dolls and build my family with my dolls.  I show them how there is a dad, mom, 4 children, and 2 dogs in my home.  Then I pass the dolls to the first child and ask them to build their family with the dolls.  I give each child a turn to build their family.\n\nAnother activity that would do great with this theme is to discuss different types of homes.  You can do a felt board activity with this one.   Make a houses 2 stories, 1 story, an apartment building, moble home, etc.  You can also make garages, trees, flowers, ect.      Let them children take turns showing what they live him.  \n\n\nthis would be a great time to intergrate straight lines and curved lines for math and art.  Encourage the children to use yarn to construct a picture of their home.  \n\nOr you could intergrate geometric shapes.  Make available cirles, squares, triangles, and diamonds made out of construction paper or foam pcs.  Encourage the children to make houses using the shapes.\n\nThis would be a good time to invite the local fire department and learn about home fire safety and then ask the parents to help them make a fire escape plan for their home.\n\n\nYou could make a class neighborhood!  Have each parent send a photo of their child with their family standing outside of their home.  Then have the class construct a collage of the photos and then make a bulletin titled "Our Friendly Neighborhood!"\n\nAlong with the above activity you can do a dictation document witht the children.  Ask each child "What is your favorite thing about your home?"  And then dictate exactly what the child says and hang them on your bullentin board.\n\nfor centers:\n\ndramatic play center make sure to have the usual things available for them to role play about home.\n\nBlock area have cars, streets, people, etc.\n\nScience area:  This one is simple.  You'll want sand and water for this center!    With plenty of objects to help them build houses.\n\n\nThere are alot of activities that you can come up with for this theme.  Just be creative.
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Children at that age learn through play. Instead of worrying about perfect performance, you should be encouraging the child to self-express, explore, and be creative in his/her own way.\n\nhttp://www.babycenter.com/refcap/toddler/toddlerdevelopment/11744.html\n\nhttp://aaalab.stanford.edu/child_development/dev_drawing.html\n\n\nHere are some developmentally appropriate activities you can do with your child.\n\nhttp://members.tripod.com/~Patricia_F/art.html\n\nhttp://www.kinderart.com/littles/litles.html\n\nhttp://www.first-school.ws/theme/crafts.htm\n\n\nRemember to focus on letting the child explore her own imagination, and on having fun with both the art activity and having quality time with you!
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You may want to read the free article "How To Start Your Own Day Care Center" http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol40/daycare.com It covers various aspects of starting and running a daycare center including the demand for daycare centers, how to start this business, shoestring strategies, how to operate a daycare center, tips on caring for the children, income potential, how to manage your daycare, marketing your business and other additional income potential. There are so many things to learn about the business that the first step is to read everything you can find.\n\nSome examples of business plans on daycare (free) include:\n\nSBA How to Start a Quality Child Care http://www.sba.gov/library/pubs/mp-29.pdf \nhttp://www.misbtdc.org/documents/BPWORKBK.pdf\nCanada http://www.cbsc.org/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=CBSC_MB%2Fdisplay&lang=en&cid=1099483437463&c=GuideHowto\nhttp://www.entrepreneur.com/article/0,4621,290241,00.html \n\nPlanMagic.com and Palo Alto software both have samples of business plans as well, but they are in the paid versions of their software and not free\n\nFor in-depth information, I suggest checking out the following books:\n\n- Start and Run a Profitable Home Day Care \n- The Daycare Provider's Workbook \n- Start Your Own At-Home Child Care Business \n- So You Want to Open a Profitable Child Care Center : \nEverything You Need to Know to Plan, Organize and Implement a Successful Program \n\nIt is also important that you learn the tax rules affecting daycare centers, especially if you are going to open one from your home. Here is the IRS page on child care centers: http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/industries/content/0,,id=99878,00.html
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Here are free business plans on childcare business:\n\nhttp://www.sba.gov/library/pubs/mp-30.doc\nhttp://www.misbtdc.org/documents/BPWORKBK.pdf\nhttp://www.misbtdc.org/documents/CDCPLAN.pdf\nhttp://sbdcnet.utsa.edu/sbic/bplans.htm \n\nYou may want to read the free article "How To Start Your Own Day Care Center" http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol40/daycare.htm \n\nIt covers various aspects of starting and running a daycare center including the demand for daycare centers, how to start this business, shoestring strategies, how to operate a daycare center, tips on caring for the children, income potential, how to manage your daycare, marketing your business and other additional income potential. There are so many things to learn about the business that the first step is to read everything you can find.\n\nFor in-depth information, I suggest checking out the following books:\n\n- Start and Run a Profitable Home Day Care \n- The Daycare Provider's Workbook \n- Start Your Own At-Home Child Care Business \n- So You Want to Open a Profitable Child Care Center : \nEverything You Need to Know to Plan, Organize and Implement a Successful Program \n\nIt is also important that you learn the tax rules affecting daycare centers, especially if you are going to open one from your home. Here is the IRS page on child care centers: http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/industries/content/0,,id=99878,00.html
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This is a great age because everything is such a new and unique experience and they are learning so much every day.  Some ideas:\n\n--Play games involving memory skills, alphabet, numbers, vocabulary.  Have scavenger hunts to have them find red items or items beginning with B, etc.\n\n--Play age-appropriate board games like Candyland or Memory Match\n\n--Color in coloring books\n\n--Look for homeschool oriented activity books for the age.  Walmart usually has fun stuff that isn't very expensive.  Or make your own "activity sheets"\n\n--Get physical--play games that involve jumping, dancing, stretching.  Simon Says is a great one  for this, or Follow the Leader or Hide and Seek.\n\n--Get them involved in doing simple things to help you with your chores like sorting laundry, cleaning up toys etc.  Find ways to make it into a game.\n\n--Bake cookies and let them help decorate the cookies\n\n--Read, read, read, lots of storybooks.  \n\n--for times when you need some "mommy time" videos/DVDs can't be beat.  There's lots of educational stuff out there, too.  My nephews love PBS kids shows and you can get compilations of them.\n\nHere's some websites with some more ideas:\n\nhttp://www.dmoz.org/Kids_and_Teens/Pre-School/\n\nhttp://www.perpetualpreschool.com/
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Volunteer at a children's hospital.  \nGet a regular babysitting job, or offer to look after a baby for someone every Saturday morning.  \nCall the Y in your community and see if they have a young parents' group where you could do childcare in exchange for free pool time.\nVolunteer at a KIndergarten or Day Care.\nDo whatever it takes to nurture children and get the satisfaction of caring for little ones.
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Start with all your local daycare facilities including state ran places like head start programs etc..\n\nContact family service and ask if the have a list of area day cares.
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curriculum for the children or for getting a job as a childcare worker? \n\numm for the children, contact a local daycare center...let them know you are doing a project, with respect to how important their job is...ya know, stroke the ego...they will be likely to be able to assist you best.\n\nif you are asking about curriculum to get into childcare, might want to check with a counselor at your local university.
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For preschoolers, I would have a lot of action and songs.  Examples would include showing them and having them practice Stop Drop and Roll.  Feel free to email me for a cute short song that you could teach them.  Another idea is to have plastic items (from a toy bag purchased at the Dollar Store or Big Lots).  Have them name the different items...firefighter, fire truck, ambulance, etc.  End with a short story...I have various titles in my fire box and would be happy to share with you the titles...Clifford is just one off hand and it comes with a tape.  Another activity you could do for them is to go to the local fire dept and see if they would allow you to record various sounds...sirens, 911 operator, the person who announces a fire, water, maybe a firedog barking etc... or take your video camera or even camera to take photos.  Perhaps you could even arrange for them to visit your school or you go to them.  Also, ask them if they have any coloring books.  One last thought, try various websites for coloring pages and lesson plans (educational sites).  Have fun!!!!!
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you can work in a daycare center, or teach pre-school
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You can start by reading free business plans on childcare business - they give you an overview of the industry, and what strategies you must take to succeed in the business:\n\nhttp://www.sba.gov/library/pubs/mp-30.doc\nhttp://www.misbtdc.org/documents/BPWORKBK.pdf\nhttp://www.misbtdc.org/documents/CDCPLAN.pdf\nhttp://sbdcnet.utsa.edu/sbic/bplans.htm \n\nYou may want to read the free article "How To Start Your Own Day Care Center" http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol40/daycare.htm \nIt covers various aspects of starting and running a daycare center including the demand for daycare centers, how to start this business, shoestring strategies, how to operate a daycare center, tips on caring for the children, income potential, how to manage your daycare, marketing your business and other additional income potential. There are so many things to learn about the business that the first step is to read everything you can find.\n\nFor in-depth information, I suggest checking out the following books:\n\n- Start and Run a Profitable Home Day Care \n- The Daycare Provider's Workbook \n- Start Your Own At-Home Child Care Business \n- So You Want to Open a Profitable Child Care Center : \nEverything You Need to Know to Plan, Organize and Implement a Successful Program \n\nIt is also important that you learn the tax rules affecting daycare centers, especially if you are going to open one from your home. Here is the IRS page on child care centers: http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/industries/content/0,,id=99878,00.html\n\nWith regards to licensing, contact this agency:\n\nDepartment of Children & Families \nChild Care Regulation Office \n1317 Winewood Blvd. Building 6 \nRoom 389A \nTallahassee, FL 32399-0700 \nPhone: 850-488-4900 \nFax: 850-488-9584 \nWeb site: http://www.myflorida.com/childcare/
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there are lots of activities for this age group...\n\nmovement...use music by raffi, greg and steve, and hap palmer...try freeze dance, popcorn dance, use bean bags or nerf balls to go with the music (you can even use basic musical instruments like tamborines, maracas, and drums)\n\nreading/and listening activity....choose an age appropriate book, flannel board story, or fingerplays and tell the story you can give the pieces to individual children after you have read the story a few times and let them help with the story. children of this age are beginning to understand how to listen too and story tapes with a book are sometimes fun if they are not too long...\ncooking or science can be done too....usually making things like pudding or jello, even making popsicles works, science projects like rolling items down a long or wide board is sometimes fun too. i even carved a pumpkin with a group of this age....i did have an assistant to be sure no one got a hold of the knife but the children enjoyed helping clean out the seeds and touching and smelling the parts of the pumpkin..\n\nthere are some great books for teachers of this age too...my favorite is teachable 2's sorry dont remember the author, but ck in the lakeshore catalog for it.