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Welcoming Children
For Child Care providers
Type: For Child Care providers   Skills: Social & Emotional Skills
There are ways that you can ease the tension of transitions, by making a child feel welcome and important. Organizing the entrance of your child care, for example, will let children know that they are in a safe environment, and help them transition, from the care of their parents, to the care of a provider. Welcoming Children
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What We Learn
You are special and important
Be ready to learn
Coping skills
Supply List
Set of tree blocks
Zoo or jungle animals
Duplos
Dinosaurs
Plastic mini trees
How-To
The video models appropriate and inappropriate ways to set up the entrance of your child care and how to learn from the needs and wants of the children.

Discuss with them what they would most want to see when they enter your child care and what they would most prefer not to see. This will help the children under your care to feel safe and in control once they arrive at your space.
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