This issue includes articles about making musical instruments, transitioning to kindergarten, and exploring your passions with preschoolers. View the table of contents for this issue and check out selected articles below. Not an NAEYC member? Become one today to receive these and more fabulous ideas to use in your preschool classroom.

 
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	Transitions to Kindergarten Going to kindergarten is an important life event. Preschoolers can feel excited—and a bit worried, too. In this article, we’ll give you some tips to help children prepare.
	Following Your Passion: Introducing Young Children to Basketball When teachers are excited about a topic, their interactions contain a unique spark that engages children in meaningful ways. Read this article to learn about one teacher's experience sharing her love of basketball with preschoolers.
	Share Your Passions with Your Child Families can share anything and everything with their children. This Message in a Backpack provides some ways families can share their passions with children.
	Grow a Salad! Preschoolers Plant and Prepare Their Food Preschoolers might think that their lunch comes from opening the fridge or going to the supermarket. Read this article to follow a preschool class while they learn where fresh food really comes from.
	Growing Glossary of Early Childhood Terms Simple definitions of words and terms specific to the field of early childhood education.
	Sagacious, Sophisticated, and Sedulous: Introducing 50-Cent Words to Preschoolers Each issue of Teaching Young Children includes a short adaption of an article that first appeared in NAEYC's peer reviewed journal, Young Children. This issue's adaptation is from Sagacious, Sophisticated, and Sedulous: Introducing 50-Cent Words to Preschoolers by Molly Collins. Click here to read the article as it first appeared in the November 2012 issue of  Young Children.