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