Lust 7 Skills: Essential Skills for Preparing Children to Succeed in School and in Life
Now more than ever, early childhood education requires a reset. “Just Seven Skills” is a framework that distills the number of learning outcomes teachers are asked to accomplish with every child to a more manageable scope and sequence that includes seven key skills. Just Seven, allows an early childhood professional to teach more deeply and intentionally and provides age-appropriate strategies and materials for teaching every skill to every child as they grow. By utilizing engaging picture books, fun songs, and play-filled learning activities across the day, children have opportunities to master the content and skills.
Additional resources and supports include interactive music videos for children and instructional video models for teachers, printable resources and teaching materials, visual schedule song cards, and the PLAY & LEARN program for families to partner to teach the skills at home. By pairing the preferred activities of young children – music, books, play – with natural opportunities to teach skills across the day, teachers can add JOY and intentional teaching of foundational social-emotional skills to their relationships with children.
Developing Math, Language, and Literacy the Young Child's Way through Music and Play
In this session, Anne will show you how to create a meaningful and engaging context for early math, language and literacy learning through music and play-filled activities. Learn how easy and enjoyable supporting early math, language and a love of reading can be within your daily routines with young children. Her interactive session will include lots of practical tips and techniques for helping children understand and express with signs and spoken words. Anne’s song stories and print materials will inspire measurement, one-to-one correspondence, expanded vocabulary, phonological awareness, recall of story events, and a love of books.
