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For Ages 4 to 6—Children’s First Steps is a powerful early childhood education program that improves children’s abilities with emotions, language and numbers. First Steps activities help children to develop greater skills for success in school and in their social relationships.

Available on CD-ROM and, coming soon--four books, Children’s First Steps provides 216 activities carefully designed to create brain growth and enhance learning abilities. Teachers can select from 108 “Classroom Activities” to use in their classrooms and 108 “Home Activities” they can refer to parents to use at home. All activities can be used in either the classroom or home setting giving teachers and parents 216 activities to choose from.

Children’s First Steps has four extraordinary advantages:

• Brain-Growth Learning Activities. The activities are specially designed to create brain growth—greater mental abilities naturally lead to enhanced learning.
• Emotional Skills.The activities concentrate on emotions and how improved emotional skills are linked to improved learning and achievement.
• MetacognitionActivities implement Metacognition. Metacognition can be defined as “Thinking about your thinking.” This is the ability to think about our own thoughts. It is natural and ordinarily develops gradually over time. However, when it is enhanced by training, it becomes the source of improvement for mental abilities. It is similar to asking ourselves, “How did we do?” and “What could we do better?” Helping students think about their own mental processes includes helping them evaluate how well they think, adapt their thought processes to specific learning tasks, and eventually improve the way they process information.
• Parent-Teacher Cooperation. Coordinating ‘Home’ activities accompany the ‘Classroom’ activities. The program provides easy-to-use training programs teachers and parents can apply to instruct others how to use the activities to dramatically improve children’s abilities with emotions, language and numbers.

HOW IT HELPS TEACHERS:

Children’s First Steps helps teachers to improve their students’ abilities to control and adapt their emotions and use emotions to improve their learning. Teachers can use the activities to improve their students’ abilities to communicate by teaching kids a variety of forms of communication, for example talking about themselves, accurately interpreting what others say and enhancing creativity. The ‘Numbers’ learning activities help children to feel more confident in the world around them by teaching them how to understand ‘number’ or ‘logical’ concepts that surround them. Concepts like time, amounts, distances, measurements, orders, sequences and patterns. The Emotions, Language and Number activities help students learn how to:

• Control and adapt their emotions
• Pay attention
• Listen to and follow direction
• Display greater empathy
• Communicate when meeting new friends
• Communicate their feelings and express themselves
• Be creative
• Cooperate
• Count using ordinal numbers—first, second, third, and using cardinal numbers—1,2,3
• Identify ‘More, Less and Equal’
• And so much more

What the Children’s First Steps Brain-Growth Learning Activities Teach:

Emotions


Empathy, Eagerness, and Excitement
Compassion, Sympathy, Satisfaction, and Gratitude
Proud, Happy, Helpful, Silly, Frustrated, and Encouraged
Understood, Amused, Content, Optimistic, and Exhilarated
Curious, Interested, Confident, and Puzzled
Joyful, Ambitious, and Cheerful
Love and Adaptability
Glad, Unified, Kind, and Inspired
Relaxation, Concern, and Serenity
Appraising Emotions

Language

Personal and Discovery Language
Interpersonal and Personal Language
Applying Personal and Interpersonal Language
Combining Regulatory and Interpersonal Language
The Language of Discovery and Imagination
The Language of Teaching, Telling, and Doing
Informing and Imagining
Regulating and Informing
The Language of Doing
Language for Pretend and Play
Numbers


More and Less, Bigger and Smaller
Series and Sequencing
Recognizing Patterns
Using Numbers to Order Things
One Number, One Person, One Object, One Thing
Recognizing Numerals and Left to Right Sequence
Recognizing More Numbers and More Meaningful Counting
Recognizing Shapes and Dimensions
Different Shapes Have Different Names

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