Created in 2007 by the Pennsylvania Office of Child Development and Early Learning (OCDEL), The Pennsylvania Key implements the work and supports the policies developed and managed by OCDEL. Learn More. >
Barbara Bredell-Searle If you are familiar with the Environment Rating Scales, you may know that somewhere in each of the tools, it is expected that children have appropriate furnishings for them to engage with others while conducting play as well as eating. We as educators are aware of what size furnishings are appropriate for these...Read More
Natalie Grebe Pasta has been satisfying hungry stomachs all over the world for thousands of years. Athletes use it for carb loading. Restaurants feature it on menus. Parents use it as their go-to when they need a quick and easy meal that the whole family will enjoy. Luckily, pasta is usually a favorite of most...Read More
Aimee Currier When I was a classroom teacher, every year we would read Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Ehlert. It was a great book to use across the curriculum from math to science. We would talk about how seeds grow and how some plants needed to be started indoors before being transplanted (great new vocabulary...Read More