Transitional activities are positive, cheerful, and exciting ways of moving children from one activity to another. They make finishing an activity and moving to another one an exciting adventure. They help us use every moment of the day for learning. Transitional songs, games, fingerplays, and conversations make the day flow more smoothly.

Transitions occupy hands and minds while children wait to finish clean-up, to gather for a group activity or for lunch to be served. How much better it is to capture children's attention with a fingerplay or a song than to say, "look at me," or "everybody sit down now.

2) dismissing a few children at a time allows them to learn how to move orderly from one place to another and

3) these are valuable times for learning.