Class on 5/17/12

HOMEWORK: Study for Final on 5/24/12, finish Lab hours and Final Resume

Whole class practiced writing a paragraph answering the following question:

What important points did you learn this semester?

Students took a practice quiz on 15 common irregular past tense verbs

Students answered and then discussed the following questions:

16. Which of the following Education Pioneers was a woman?

A. Locke

B. Piaget

C. Montessori

17. If you work in a day care center, what can you control?

A. Children’s feelings

B. Classroom environment

C. The weather

18. Do all children normally progress through distinct stages?

A. True

B. False

19. Head Start is a

A. State Program

B. Local Program

C. Federal program

20. What is NAEYC responsible for?

A. Administering Head Start programs

B. Regulating the free food program

C. Setting high standards for child care.

21. What is Patty Smith Hill famous for?

A. Studying diseases in small children

B. She wrote the “Happy Birthday” song

C. She wrote about infants and their caregivers

22. What is not true about the origin of Kindergarten

A. The first Kindergartens in the United States were taught in Italian

B. Kindergartens started in Germany

C. In the United States Children do not have to attend Kindergarten

Class on 5/10/12

Small group discussed "What elements make a class presentation successful?" Then the whole class discussed and the instructor wrote some of the points on the board. There was also a mini-lesson regarding the building strength of the phrases. "you should... you have to... and you must..."

Students then worked individually to write a paragraph answering the same question.

Instructor then shared examples of last week's paragraphs and students own comments and grades of those paragraphs.

Whole class read through of "Word Pictures" and the fact that while children are individuals and have unique personalities they all progress through the same developmental stages and the time period for those stages while variable do follow scientifically proven time periods.

HOMEWORK:
Students were assigned one section of the Word Pictures (pages 99 through 108). Study your section including looking up words that you don't know in the dictionary. (Instructor warned all that he will ask question about some of the word's meanings.) Then chose 3 or 4 words (some times they are short phrases) that best describe their assigned developmental age. Be prepared to discuss/present in class. 


Study for Quiz on 5/17/12: all irregular past tense verbs studied previously


Assignments for absent students:
Rosa= Physical Motor for 5 year olds (page 108)
Lidia M. = Language for 5 year olds (page 108)
Palmira = Social Emotional for 5 year olds (page 108)