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Trying to get a grip on daily transitions The information on this site will be of interest and especially useful for those who work in the Early Childhood field and also parents of young children. Learn more about the three Transition Magician publications, workshop offerings, new Bright Transition Ideas and the Transition Magician authors! Transition Magician
This is the original publication that first addressed paying attention to your daily transitions, including them into your daily planning and having fun with your children. Using this resource book will help you carry out transitions as expertly as a magician! More than 100 original ideas will weave smoothness into activity changes. It includes tools to help you evaluate environments and schedules and prevent transition problems from developing. Activities include directions with easy to find materials for making transition props. Appropriate for preschool children. Purchase books online at Amazon.com or Redleaf Press.
Building on the original Transition Magician, this book is filled with great all-new activities and props to use for the times between planned activities in your day. It is appropriate for children 2-6 years, with guidelines, activities and transition props for toddlers and for children with special needs and challenging behaviors. Also new in this book is a teaching strategy we used in developing transition activities. We adapted the concept of emergent curriculum (curriculum that emerges from children's life experiences and interests), and developed the concept of emergent transitions. The idea of planning transitions that coincide with open-ended topics provide a seamless learning experience for children. Any teacher can be a transition magician with this approach. Purchase books online at Amazon.com or Redleaf Press.
Our newest title in the series gives early childhood teachers the tools to help parents make the best of tricky transition times within the child's daily home routine. It features over 100 activities that you can share with parents. It covers transitions such as preparing to leave the house in the morning; traveling from home to preschool or child care; waiting in the doctor's office and special times with their child. It includes instructions for making activity props, reproducible handouts and outlines for two parent workshops. Parents may want to purchase TM for Families for their own use. Purchase books online at Amazon.com or Redleaf Press. |
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Quotes from our Workshops
"Pactical ideas we can use right away."
"I like all the ideas for the props to use during transitions. It was nice to see them and to get ideas on how to utilize them."
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