Class on 10/21/10

Students reviewed their corrected homeworks. Students took a practice spelling test on the following words:
1. innate
2. environment
3. argument
4. pattern
5. assertive
6. maturation
7. emphasize
8. theory
9. development
10. quantitative

Small group discussion of Erikson's stages
Whole group reporting on the essence of each stage

Children's literature and finding vocabulary.

Homework: re read the description of Erikson's Stage 4 (page 137)
Write a paragraph about a child you know in ths stage or from a personal memory or yourself in this important developmental stage.

Class on 10/21/10

 Excerpt on Erikson's Theory,

           Play is a critical part of children's total development. Most schools for children under six have periods of time allotted for play called "choice time" or "free play." Erikson supports these ideas explicitly by stating that the senses of autonomy and of initative are developed mainly through social and fantasy play. He suggsst that child's play is "the infantile form of the human ability to deal with experiences by creating model situations and to master reality by experiment and planning...To 'play it out' in play is the most natural self-healing measure childhood affords" (Erickson, 1964).

Class on 10/14/10

Class was cancelled (Garth was sick) but the homework for next class is below:

HOMEWORK:

1. Please make sure your homework that was due for 10/14 is typed. Either on paper or in an email to me.

2. Read "Applying Erikson's Theory to Work with Children" (end of page 137 to start of page 138). Re- read the paragraph that begins "Play is a critical part..." Read it in Spanish too. Now write out the entire paragraph (in English) but use as many of your own words as possible. For example, the first sentence could become, "Playing is an important part of a child's full growth." You can use some of the same words but the object is to re-write the paragraph in a way that it "becomes" yours. Use a dictionary or thesaurus when necessary.