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There are numerous benefits to children learning how to plant seeds: 🌱 **Skill development**: Children can enhance essential skills like initiative, self-confidence, literacy, math, and science. 🌱 **Greater Sense of Empathy**: Planting seeds fosters empathy, compassion, and a better understanding of the world around them. 🌱 **Physical development**: Children can improve locomotor, body management, and object control skills while tending to plants. 🌱 **Emotional development**: Caring for seeds teaches responsibility and patience, aiding emotional growth. 🌱 **Understanding of plant life cycles**: Children grasp the life cycle of plants and the survival mechanisms of living species. 🌱 **Stress relief**: Gardening is a stress-reliever. Research shows that access to a garden reduces stressful occasions. #Food #Interdependence #Knowledge #Nutritional #Education #Health #Children

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As the end of the semester approaches, many colleges and universities will bring puppies, rabbits, goats, and sometimes even miniature horses and donkeys to campus. Why? Because interacting with animals can significantly reduce stress and anxiety. When a person pets a dog, the brain releases endorphins, chemicals that promote happiness and relaxation. Engaging with puppies can lower blood pressure and reduce heart rate, contributing to better physical health during stressful times. Animal events encourage students to step away from studying and interact with one another in a relaxed setting, fostering a sense of community and support. Taking meaningful breaks from studying is essential—it improves students’ focus and productivity when they return to their work. By applying wisely, building confidence, and getting it right, I help students on their journey to college admission success. Contact me here: https://lnkd.in/eSNJXgN #kscollegesuccess #collegeprep #collegeadmissions #collegeapplications #college #collegecounseling #seniors2024 #classof2024 #classof2025 #seniors2025 #njmom #njmoms

How do we support our autistic friends and loved ones to feel that sense of relational safety and connection? Some of my ideas below, what are yours? - Reduce demands and just be with the person without expectation, enjoying the flow. - Enter your person's world, taking jn what do they notice in their surroundings? what inspires them? can you appreciate that too and find ways to ensure its in their life every day. - When people - you or they - are stressed, take responsibility for your state; check your own breathing, try to bring your own body into as calm a state as possible. This is catching! - Try and make your interactions predictable- use schedules, timers, objects of reference, discussion as needed- don't assume even the most capable autistic person can predict things. Then the person can relax a bit more and have a bit more energy for change or novelty or surprises. - Find out about the person's sensory experience. If the world is too loud, buzzy with electrics, bright, socially unpredictable, smelly etc. it can make it impossible to fully relax or be fully present. Normalise checking in on sensory needs and using adaptations as needed. These are just a few of my ideas. Knowing that others understand how the autistic person may tick, and will respond to that, makes connecting with them so much easier, even when mistakes happen along the way. What are your thoughts on this?

Exploring Wisconsin's Flourishing Nature-Based Early Childhood Education Movement Nature-based early childhood education goes beyond merely spending time outdoors. While ample outdoor play is a cornerstone, it's also about fostering resourcefulness, nurturing imagination, and instilling a sense of stewardship towards the environment. Read More: https://lnkd.in/dTdcbeY5 #naturebasededucation #WisconsinEducation #outdoorlearning #earlychildhoodeducation #naturepreschools

A growing body of research reveals that time spent in nature has tangible benefits on mental and physical wellbeing. Bowler et al. (2010) found that spending time in parks or among trees boosted attention span, energy levels, and calmness, resulting in less anxiety, anger or sadness. In 2015, Parks Victoria determined that being out in parks facilitated a better connection with cultural heritage and improved overall health and happiness. And Liddicoat et al. (2018) and Mavoa et al. (2019) found that being exposed to a greater variety of plant and animal life may be linked to better respiratory health and overall well-being. Research into outdoor therapies and their benefits are continuing but showing great promise. That’s why NPAQ is intent on expanding our Kids in Parks program, encouraging more Aussie kids to get out into nature. Not only do kids reap the mental and physical health rewards, they also forge a stronger connections with their environment and get a better understanding of protected areas. Our winter Kids in Parks school holiday program is underway, so don’t forget to book your kids in at https://lnkd.in/gutswQqE Also, watch our short video to see what we hope to achieve when it comes to expanding our Kids in Parks program. https://lnkd.in/gvFX73Av

Let's cultivate a future where children can thrive. Baby boomers and the silent generation have left enough of an impression on this planet, and now it is time for a fresh perspective. Let's empower younger generations to create a future for them and by them. Investing in children's food education is a powerful tool. Equipping them with the knowledge to grow food and cook fosters a healthy relationship with food and creates a ripple effect for future generations. At Allpa Mama Family, our passion goes beyond the school gardens we help you create. We believe in nurturing lasting impacts on children, families, and communities. If we can empower our youth to take control of their physical and mental health, then we will stop the cycle of nutritional discrimination. Together, we can change the world! There are many organizations like Allpa Mama and the #greenbronxmachine/ @stephenritz working towards a healthier future (no one has made more of a dent than Mr. Ritz). We cannot do it alone and need the collective efforts of the world’s community. Join us on our journey to empower the future, one seed, one plate, and one bite at a time. Visit https://lnkd.in/gzE7Q7tf to learn more. #foodeducation #healthyfuture #empoweringkids #fridayisforfuture #nochildhungry

🌿Not All Classrooms Have Four Walls🌿 In his insightful article, author and Children & Nature Network co-founder Richard Louv shares how educators can become key players in the children and nature movement. Discover how you can integrate nature into your teaching and inspire students both inside and outside the classroom. #NatureEducation #RichardLouv #ChildrenAndNature #Teaching #EnvironmentalEducation #EcoLiteracy

Two ways to look at weeds as a classroom teacher...🎋 1. Ugly intrusions 👉🏼Gardeners resent weeds. They make our lives harder. I just saw these weeds the other day at the side of my house. How did they grow so fast? And tall? I love flowers, but weeds unnerve me. I don't think they are pretty, and they are hard to eradicate. 👉🏼But we can't think of students this way. And sometimes, teachers become so overwhelmed with challenging personalities, disrespect, lack of parental support, and students who reject our every effort..that our STUDENTS become weeds in our thinking... 🛑We can't do that. In my classroom garden, there are no weeds. Every student is an opportunity...even in the toughest of school years. But what about this~ 2. Hearty, determined warriors 👉🏼If we compare OURSELVES to weeds...Some of us have been through a few things we might be reluctant to share publicly, things that have nearly broken us and that original desire to be in the public school system as practitioners... ☀️We have learned to grow in the most barren of places. ☀️We have accelerated student learning when everything around us said it isn't possible. ☀️We have developed thick skins with thorns on our leaves. ☀️We have become noticeable for any number of reasons by being different. ☀️We have blossomed and still rely on the sun for light, love, and longevity. I've been pondering weeds for quite some time, these substantial, die-hard components of nature and how they can teach me something about perseverance, especially when they strangle my red roses out front, or my arms hurt from pulling them up out of flower beds. And because weeds are part of my world, I'm choosing to emulate the strength of weeds as a positive connotation, and to reject thinking of others as weeds, when weeds carry a negative connotation. 👉🏼How can we become stronger practitioners but also stronger advocates for students we may be inclined to see as problems? 👉🏼How can we bloom where we're planted, even if we aren't conventional in our ways or don't look like everyone else? 👉🏼How can we withstand the struggle and avoid obliteration when there is barely enough water or sunshine for us to thrive? I hope you'll join this conversation. I'd love to hear your thoughts. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 🍎I'm Shea-Alison Thompson (30 years in the trenches!) 🥳Leading teachers to greater fulfillment 🌱Personal mindset coach and community builder 💬Let's connect teacher to teacher! #teacher #teaching #classroom #education #preschool #kindergarten #elementary #secondary #specialeducation #onlineteaching #TeachersofLinkedIn #selfimage #newteacher

A lovely way for young children to learn some basics about bees #LuluMeetstheBees #AnnaMMcQuinn #RosBeardshaw #AlannaMaxBooks is #RedReadingHub’s choice for #picturebook of the day reviewed now on the blog