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Everything Begins at Home
[ad_1] Like charity, everything else begins at home. It is where your foundation for every kind of learning sprout wings. Home is where you first learn to talk, to sing, to respect, to behave, to work hard, to lie or to tell the truth, to do good or evil, to be kind or to be cruel; it is the first learning place for everybody irrespective of colour, race, or culture. Home gives you the basic foundation for every kind of virtue that you can later on, choose to develop or discard. It is where you get an idea or the basic understanding of life and things, social, religious, economical or…
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Using Puzzles in Early Childhood to Develop Prereading Skills
[ad_1] I was an inner-city classroom teacher in a new, open-space school, part of a 4th grade team consisting of 4 teachers and 100 students. Sixteen of our students could not read even at the 1st grade level. They were all boys, and of course, these students were the ‘behavior problems’. Within the first two weeks of school, many of them were spending more time in the office for behavioral referrals than in their classrooms. The instruction was not differentiated according to reading levels, so these students were learning very little in materials geared toward a 4th grade reading level. My background was Alternative Education, and my passion was working…
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A Reflection on Developmentally Appropriate Practice
[ad_1] Developmentally Appropriate Practice (DAP) has been seen by many as the cornerstone of Early Childhood education since the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) published the guidelines in 1987. The guidelines have been used widely in educare settings such as preschool and schools, with many educators accepting DAP as best practice for educating young children. Whilst DAP has been an highly successful approach for some educators, other alternative approaches to educating young children have recently been identified. Also, many criticisms of the DAP guidelines as they were originally written have been published. Two alternative discourses to Developmentally Appropriate Practice will be considered in this paper. These…
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Language Immersion Day Care in Belmont
[ad_1] Child development experts discovered that children absorb second languages more naturally than adults, especially if they are exposed to different facets of its culture at an early age. If you’d like your child to become proficient in a second tongue, forget about grammar workbooks and conjugation charts. Instead, consider a language immersion day care. Belmont has several fantastic institutions that teach kids a second language through the arts, games, and literature. If your child attends these schools long enough, it is likely that he or she will be speaking like a native in a few years’ time. Challenge School Expose your child to the best of Eastern and Western…
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Early Childhood Development and Baby Boy Clothes
[ad_1] Just how old should your baby boy be before he has a say in the style of clothes that he wears? While it is fun for a parent to play dress up with a baby boy, is it as fun for the child as it is for the parent? With child psychologists now all in virtual agreement that children begin developing personalities at a much younger age then previously thought, can the clothes that a child as young as two wears, play a determinate factor in the development of their personality? Kids Have Feelings Too One can only imagine the torment that generations of young baby boys have gone…
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Too Many Toys and Other Learning Games for Kids – Is There Such a Thing?
[ad_1] Researching the web for toys and learning games for kids in order to determine the impact they have on the children’s development, two things struck me: firstly the overwhelming number of toys available, and secondly their relatively low purchase price which made them affordable to just about anyone. Even though the toys and other learning games for kids represent the means by which young children and toddlers uncover the world around them and get to know themselves, too many toys may hinder the very process they were initially meant for. The trend is also fairly recent. In the not-so-distant past, toys and other learning games for kids were only…
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Early Childhood Development and the Benefits of Wooden Jigsaw Puzzles
[ad_1] The American Academy of Pediatrics defines early childhood as the ages between one and five years, encompassing the toddler and pre-school periods. Early childhood development occurs rapidly and is widely recognized as extremely important in setting the foundation for future learning, including the social, cognitive, and motor skills needed to handle the demands of pre-school and kindergarten. During these formative years, parents and other caring people in their lives, have the ability to enhance this development by wisely choosing activities that stimulate and challenge their minds. While there are a plethora of references regarding the benefits of reading books, playing games, etc., this article focuses on the value of…
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Ensuring Success on the First Day of Preschool
[ad_1] Transition Your Child Successfully on Their First Day of Preschool – 5 Tips The first day of preschool is a day filled with anticipation, excitement and sometimes anxiety for children and their parents. These 5 tips from an Early Childhood Professional are to ensure your child’s success on their first day of school. There are important things parents can do well before the actual first day of school to set their child up for a successful experience: 1. Two months before the preschool program begins, spend time with your child at the library or local bookstore, reading age appropriate books about children in a school setting. Focus on talking…
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Math Manipulative’s in Early Childhood Education
[ad_1] Do you have students struggling to grasp basic math concepts such as sorting, numeracy, or operations? Using math manipulatives is the key to helping young children learn abstract math concepts in a concrete way. It is imperative that in the early learning years children be given hands-on math manipulatives to begin to explore math concepts that will be the foundation for all future logical mathematical learning. Basic foundations for teaching math are sorting and classifying and numeracy. To teach sorting and classifying teachers should use manipulative’s that have similar and different qualities- for example, plastic animal figurines. These may be similar in that they have the same number or…
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Early Childhood Education – Conducting Childcare Training Experiments In The Class
[ad_1] Early childhood education experts are among the first people who see a child’s learning type. Through observation, they would understand that a child could learn in different ways like through reading and listening. However, some of them would also learn faster with the help of experiencing or doing experiments. They are also known as the kinesthetic learners. Kinesthetic learners just need to experience the things they need to learn and they will immediately absorb its related information. For instance, working with science at a young age is possible for young kids and they can learn them faster than the usual. However, it’s essential for you as an early childhood…