Fostering Core Skills

Explore what children’s Core Skills look like and how you can support their development with your everyday interactions

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Relate

Explore how you can help young children connect with adults, engage with peers, and develop their growing sense of self.

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Regulate

Explore ways you can help young children understand emotions, regulate their behavior, and grow their executive function skills.

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Move

Explore how you can help young children develop their gross motor and fine motor skills, and foster self-care and healthy habits.

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Think

Explore how you can foster young children’s thinking skills through play, exploration, and discovery.

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Think - Math

Explore how you can help young children develop foundational math skills in the areas of numeracy, operations, geometry, spatial sense, patterning, and measurement.

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Communicate

Explore how you can help young children communicate with others by supporting their vocabulary development and the skills needed to both understand and express language.

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