Calming Down Strategies

Here are a few of the calming down strategies we use in the classroom.  You may see your child doing these and wonder, "What are they doing?"  Below is a short description of each.  We do them to calm our bodies when we are angry, sad or super excited!

Parent Aware

Parent Aware is a Minnesota’s Quality Rating and Improvement System that offers tools and resources to help:

• Families find quality child care and early education

• Programs improve their practices

• Children benefit from care and education that will prepare them for school and life.

Our ECE programs are rated "Four-Stars" through Parent Aware, the highest rating they give.  They also provide Early Learning Scholarships (up to $15,000/child) to families that are enrolled in our programs.  For more information on Parent Aware or the scholarship, please click on the links below.  

Here is a guide to use that lists many different skills needed for Kindergarten.  Feel free to work on some of these skills throughout the year to better prepare your child for the start of Kindergarten!