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Kids learn:
Routine
Responsibility
Priorities
Sight Word Recognition
Learning should be fun. With Easy Daysies™ it is!
Kids Develop:
Self-discipline
Respect
Good Works Habits
Confidence & Security
Great for:
Home
Classroom
Preschool
Daycare
Homeschooling
Kids with Special Needs
The Story of Easy Daysies™
 As a classroom teacher, I have taught Kindergarten up to Grade 5 (while coaching Grade 6 and 7 Boys and Girls Basketball and Volleyball for years), and I have always had a visual daily schedule up in front of my classroom showing the children the shape of the day. It might say something like: Morning Challenge, Carpet Time, Spelling Practice, Snack Time/Recess, Quiet Book Time, Math, Clean Up Time, Lunch, etc. No matter what age my students were we would go over the daily schedule together as a class each morning and they loved it! My students really liked knowing what was going to happen that day. It made them feel safe, confident, and in control of their day, which resulted in having happy, comfortable, and organized students and classroom.
Having a visual indicator of what was going to happen next made event transition easier for all my students; it was especially effective for my students with special needs too.
It was so effective that over my years of teaching, I have had many parents ask me if I could make something like that for their child at home. "Of course!" I would say!
I started making visual schedules for parents to help their kids at home with specific focus such as helping them get organized when they got home. For example, one visual calendar had the following "cards": Take Out Homework and Notices, Snack Time, Homework Time, Pack Backpack, Free Time, Dinner, Pack Soccer Bag, Soccer Practice.
I've made visual schedules for steps for Bed Time, Morning Routines, and Washroom Routines.
Then one day I had my own children and I realized the true value of such a visual schedule at home! It worked wonderfully in my classroom and no wonder parents wanted something like this at home! My daughter is very inquisitive and always asks, "What are we going to do today mommy?" I started drawing her a sequence of pictures of what we were going to do that day. She was only 3 and a half. Then I started writing the word beside the pictures I drew. Before I knew it I had made a magnetic prototype daily schedule that we kept on our fridge door. I was very excited about not having to draw pictures of everything we were doing every morning!!
It amazes me that just by looking at the pictures on our fridge, my daughter (now 5) and my 21 month old son are able to tell me what we are doing today. They love it! I love it! No more "Mommy, what are we going to do now?" asked every five minutes. Instead, my daughter often has her shoes on (by herself) raring to go out to the next activity she sees pictured on our fridge! Her little brother copies her of course and that is two less pairs of shoes I have to beg to put on as we try to leave the house. I love it! Happy kids make a happy parent!
The visual schedule stays up on our fridge and I constantly have mothers, teachers, and friends ask me where they can get one and they are always so surprised (and excited) when they find out that I made it myself.
Now that I am pregnant with my third, I knew I just had to try making these schedules to help other parents help their kids have easier days. This is how my visual daily schedules got the name Easy Daysies™.
I have a wonderful, supportive and encouraging husband that I just love so much and I could not have done this without him. Thank you honey. Thank you to all my wonderful family and friends for your excitement and encouragement that drove me to this point.
Thank you to you for taking the time to investigate Easy Daysies™. I know that Easy Daysies™ will help you help your child have easier days.
Blessings and Smiles From my home to yours,
Elaine Tan Comeau
“Use routines to encourage good behaviour. Routines help a preschooler understand her world. When she knows what comes next, she feels more in control and it is easier for her to co-operate. Routines are especially helpful for those transition points: getting ready for daycare, bedtime and so on.” -- “Ten Tools for Positive Disciple,” Today’s Parent Magazine, February 2007, p.68
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