Bitty City Players

  • After School Programs
    • Comprehensive Afterschool Programs
  • Camp
    • Mini-Camps
  • Online Classes
  • Parties
    • Virtual Parties
  • Bitty City Clubhouse
  • Pre-K Workshops
  • Our Story
  • Blog Archive
  • Contact Us
    • Jobs
  • After School Programs
    • Comprehensive Afterschool Programs
  • Camp
    • Mini-Camps
  • Online Classes
  • Parties
    • Virtual Parties
  • Bitty City Clubhouse
  • Pre-K Workshops
  • Our Story
  • Blog Archive
  • Contact Us
    • Jobs
Picture

Ack! Did Google Make Me a Lazy Teacher?

9/28/2017

1 Comment

 
This week Google celebrates its 19th birthday, and the every-day-is-National-Something-Day calendar notes that it’s National Ancestor Day.  So the eternal (and eternally divisive) question of using technology as a teacher, in a way that our early education predecessors could not, floats to the top of my mind.

This week: tech anxiety in planning. Next week: tech in the classroom.

“I don’t know how anyone taught preschool before Pinterest and Amazon and Google!” Every time I say this (and it’s…not entirely infrequent), I feel torn: lucky to have so many resources available, but also…kinda embarrassed. 
​
Ack! What if questioning #teacherlife before Pinterest implies that I’m just lazy, or worse, unimaginative? Ack! Do fewer trips to the library mean I’m not living up to our foreteachers? (is foreteachers even a word?! It is now.) Ack! Am I letting someone else come up with ideas for me! Is my teacher brain shriveling?!

Read More
1 Comment

It's a Scary World out there...

9/20/2017

0 Comments

 
Picture
Hurricanes and earthquakes and destroying countries and terrorism and more hurricanes... Yipes! Today we're offering a few ideas for helping kids handle some of those fears.
Talk of destruction and suffering are all around us, and inescapably all around our children. It's scary! Add to that all the things that might be lurking in the dark or under our beds - any time we cannot see something, or do not understand how it works or why it happens, or find ourselves in a new situation we cannot predict, we may feel fear or anxiety - at any age. 


Use Dramatic Play
We like to use dramatic play to help children cope with fears that are unlikely to occur (what if aliens attack?), and talking and games to handle fears that are more in the sphere of possibility (what if a hurricane comes to get us?)


We act out what might happen, with a silly or happy twist.
One of our favorite books to introduce this particular dramatic play activity is Ed Emberly's Go Away Big Green Monster. Monsters aren't so scary when you think of them as a collection of silly pieces instead of one big creature.


We like to have kids draw something they are fearful of, and then we work together as a group to figure out a way we could make that fear feel less scary.


Read More
0 Comments

Positive Thinking and Growth Mindset (with Printable!)

9/13/2017

1 Comment

 
Happy Wednesday! Today is International Positive Thinking Day! So today’s resource focuses on Positive Thinking and the Growth Mindset.


Say hi to 

Keep Tryin’ Lion and 
​
Keep At It Rabbit!
​See below for a printable tool to use them in your classroom or at home
Picture
Keep Tryin' Lion
Picture
Keep At It Rabbit

If you’re not yet familiar with the Growth Mindset, it’s a way of thinking - backed up by scientific research - to develop perseverance and resilience in the face of difficulty, and it opens up doors to new successful and quantifiable strategies for teachers and parents, in fact for anyone who is with a child when that child encounters something difficult.

Read More
1 Comment

Clang Clang, it's Fire Drill Time! (eek!)

9/6/2017

2 Comments

 
Picture
It's back to school time, and that means any day now it will be... Fire Drill Time 😱

​I don’t know about you, but every year I dread subjecting my preschoolers to the blaring alarms and bright flashing lights. I know that it’s important for their safety, but it can be scary and overwhelming for a little person.

One year my co-teacher and I felt that it would be helpful to create a fun, upbeat fire drill song, and we noticed that the students LOVED its sing-songy playful tune and were actually excited for fire drills!

The children enjoyed both singing the words and then silently mouthing the words to practice being quiet for the drill.

Click Below to learn the best Fire Drill Song for preschoolers!

CLICK HERE to request the FREE printable PDF of the fire safety poster pictured! (8.5'x11', no watermark) (we're still working on our email automation, but we'll get you the printable PDF file very promptly!)


Read More
2 Comments


    ​Who We Are

    Bitty City Players offers theater and science via after-school programs, in-school workshops, and events for ages 1-10 in NYC. Learn more about our co-founders Caroline and Danielle here!

    Monkey Business Welcome Post
    Click for more blog info!

    Archives

    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017

    Categories

    All
    Back To School
    Behavioral
    Books
    Caroline
    Classes
    Classroom
    Danielle
    Materials
    Math
    Music
    Parents
    Printables
    Science
    Sensory
    STEM
    Teachers
    Theater
    Welcome

    RSS Feed

After School Programs
Pre-K Workshops
Online Classes
​Camp
​Parties & Events
Dramatic Artists
Science Explorers
Sensory Players
Our Story
Contact Us
Email Us
Blog Archive
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
© 2020 BITTY CITY PLAYERS, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
212-757-2780 | INFO@BITTYCITYPLAYERS.COM | NEW YORK CITY