...Kindergarten Readiness Is your child getting ready to start kindergarten? A child can show many signs of being ready for school. It is up to the parents to recognize these signs such as oral language skills, social skills, motor skills, and identifying letters and numbers. Having some preparation before starting kindergarten can help your child build readiness for starting school. Pre-kindergarten claims that preparation is very important for kindergarten readiness. What is kindergarten readiness? It is determining whether or not a child is ready for kindergarten. With so many child development surveys on children aging from three to five years of age, over six million children entering kindergarten are not adequately prepared for school. (Staff and wire reports, 1987). Children are required to have a certain amount of independence before they start to attend school. (Harker, 2012). To be successful in kindergarten a child must have more skills other than knowing the alphabet or how to write their name. The child’s age, social, motor, and academic skills are a big part of the preparation process. (‘Kindergarten Readiness: More Than Academics”, 2009). Pre-kindergarten preparation has its benefits with teaching children social skills and basic letter recognition needed for kindergarten. On the other hand, children without any kind of kindergarten preparation do not seem to be far behind on social skills but are indeed unprepared in other developing skills such as oral language...
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...This article is very interesting to me because it’s something I deal with on a daily basis. Trying to get my kindergarteners to be reading at the new benchmark levels set by our district through Common Core has become increasingly difficult. In this article, the teacher researchers found that many kindergarten and first-grade students did not have the reading readiness skills to be reading at their benchmark target. The purpose of the project was to improve the students overall reading ability. The project was for about four months. There were 74 students and 74 parents that participated in this research study. The teacher researchers noticed that the students lacked reading readiness skills that were necessary to meet grade level benchmarks. The teacher researchers used a parent survey, baseline assessments, and observational checklist to document evidence. The teacher researchers found from the parent survey that students who lacked interest in books and reading them demonstrated low reading readiness skills. The baseline assessment the students took showed an overall weakness in letter identification, initial sounds, medial sounds, and ending sounds. The observational checklist indicated difficulty with segmenting sounds, letter sound knowledge, inability to rhyme, decoding difficulties and reading miscues, poor comprehension, lack of interest in books, lack of print awareness skills, poor attentions spans, lack of response during whole group instruction, and off-task behaviors...
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...All I ever needed to know, I learned in Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum Most of what I really need to know about how to live, and what to do, and how to be, I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sand box at nursery school. These are the things I learned. Share everything. Play fair. Don't hit people. Put things back where you found them. Clean up your own mess. Don't take things that aren't yours. Say you are sorry when you hurt somebody. Wash your hands before you eat. Flush. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you. Live a balanced life. Learn some and think some and draw some and paint and sing and dance and play and work everyday. Take a nap every afternoon. When you go out in the world, watch for traffic, hold hands, and stick together. Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the plastic cup? The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why. We are like that. And then remember that book about Dick and Jane and the first word you learned, the biggest word of all: LOOK! Everything you need to know is there somewhere: The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation, ecology, and politics and the sane living. Think of what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about 3 o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankets for a nap. Or we had a basic policy in our nation and other nations to always put things...
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...another person's work represented as that of the Learner’s without properly citing the source of the work will be considered plagiarism and will result in an unsatisfactory grade for the work submitted or for the entire course, and may result in academic dismissal. | | MKT6005 | Cayce Lawrence, Ph.D. | Marketing Research I | Assignment #8 | Marketing Research Plan: Childcare Choices for Kindergarten Readiness Bonnie Rice Northcentral University Abstract In order to analyze what factors affect the ability for parents to access quality childcare choices that prepare preschoolers for kindergarten, the author’s research plan will discuss applicable marketing theories relating to the issue and results of the hypothesis testing from responses to her questionnaire. The author will also discuss future research and marketing research applications. Keywords: high-quality childcare, Early Childhood Environmental Rating Scale (ECERS), Survey of Income and Program Participation – Event History Calendar (SIPP-EHC), TK/JK (transitional or junior kindergarten, reference parent, kindergarten...
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...Tales of Two Cities: Kindergarten Crunch hits Migrant Parents Over the years, Liu Bo and his wife firmly believe that a happy life must a family of three people. Now he can still cherish his memory of the day when his baby girl was born. It was not long before this Hunan migrant family was full of confidence to start a new life in the metropolis of Guangzhou. All of sudden, the problem came here. Kindergarten crunch, a phenomenon happens in big Chinese cities where the scarcities of preschool places trigger record fees and has parents scrambling. The crunch first happened in a few state-owned kindergartens, and then on to many more private kindergartens, now some cottage nurseries are overcrowded. And it costs more to send a child to kindergarten today than it does to put him or her through state college. No More Children are allowed For Liu Bo, a migrant worker who runs a sidewalk snack booth in Chisha Village, Haizhu district, Guangzhou. And Yangyang, his three-years-old girl at the preschool age, there isn’t a suitable kindergarten for them in the village. “Not until my wife went to pick up our child from kindergarten and found worms and pebbles in their food twice,” Liu, cradling his girl, said. “I sent my child to the Chi Sha Kindergarten nearby, which was started by private organizers. The next day I took her home.” As a village inside a city, Chisha, not so long ago became an inhabitation where...
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...subjected to different types of stimulation that can greatly impact both their cognitive development as well as social skills later in life. Daycare can also enhance those children’s ability to learn at a faster pace when entering kindergarten. For this reason, daycare should be available to infants and young children prior to entering grades K-12. Social skills are very important not only for adults, but for children as well. The development of a person’s social skills begins at birth and grows rapidly from there. A great place for a child to start building these skills would be in the form of daycare. When a child is in daycare, they are automatically subjected to a world full of different types of people. As stated in the article, Pre School years equally as important as K-12, “Licensed caregivers in either a pre-school or daycare setting have the skills and knowledge to guide young children through this social maze” (Courtenay, B.C. para 5) Daycare provides an environment for infants and young children to interact with different types of people which then helps them learn to develop relationships at an early age. (DiLalla, 1998) All of these things help set a path for continued success in the future as well as prepares a child for transition into kindergarten. There is a strong connection between the development a child undergoes early in life and the level of success that the child will experience later in life. When infants and young...
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...elementary level; if it is not fostered at that level then graduating from high school is almost an impossible goal to attain. Lake Rim Elementary school is in Fayetteville, NC and was established in March 2000, the school has a student count of 661 students (North Carolina K-12 website 2009). Lake Rim elementary has met the annual adequate yearly progress from 2001-2005, from 2005-2007 they did not meet annual yearly progress but met attendance target (Lake Rim Elementary School website 2009). In 2007-2008 the school met high growth and attendance target. Teacher to student ratio is 1:14 (Lake Rim Elementary School website 2009) and the state of North Carolina is 1:15 (North Carolina K-12 website 2009) and there are 98 students in kindergarten at Lake Rim Elementary School (Lake Rim Elementary School website 2009). The school, faculty, staff, and parents are responsible for assisting students with their academics to help the school raise it academics scores. The school has adapted a program called Lightspan Achieve Now program. This program was design to assist students with math, and reading and it conducts three times a week in a lab setting for 35 minutes to help student with math and reading. The program...
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...assignment relate to your observation assignment? The benchmark assignment was really beneficial as I went into the classroom because I was able to see those things in action and notice what the teacher was doing that was good at this specific age group. It helped me to pay attention to things that were beneficial and things that might need to be altered a little bit to be more conducive to the kindergarteners. How did the BYU Preschool or Kindergarten observation help you write the PowerPoint? I loved doing the observation because it gave me ideas of things we could do to implement the benchmarks and Utah state learning objectives in the classroom. It helped me to notice what would be good to use and things that would be better for a different age group. My observation experience gave me insight into the responses that children would give to different activities and to the teacher. How can you implement the information gained from all assignments in your future classroom--even if you don’t choose to work with preschool or kindergarten-age children? Something that I think is a really good activity is having children have buddies from a different grades. So no matter which grade teach, I can make note of the benchmarks and have buddies in different grades and implement those to make sure they get the best experience possible. In general, it is important to take the benchmarks and apply them to the presentations of the curriculum, so they can learn in the most conducive manner...
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...Kindergarten Health Injury Prevention and Safety Facts about the learners I have a class of ten students; there are six girls and four boys. * Two of my students have a reading disability; witch requires close attention, to make sure they fully understand the material. I group my student in groups of two placing the two students with reading disability, with strong readers. Every month I assign new groups so the get an equal learning opportunity. My students do work well independently and with others. The learn best by hands on actives, and love learning. Content/Context Description * The child will be able to identify safety rules for the home, school and the community. They will be able to tell when a situation is an emergency and what to do in case of an emergency at home, school, and in the community. The Students will be able to explain ways to stay safety when riding a bus or any other vehicle. They will learn the different between appropriate and inappropriate touching on his or hers own body. They will be able to recognize when they or others are being bullied. The students will also be able to recognize a stranger and not to trust them. The Student will also learn the danger of weapons and know how tell an adult if they see someone with a gun or a knife. Materials * A Move on “Stranger Danger” * A picture power point on safety ( covering Safety for the home, school, community and safe riding in a vehicle) * A picture power point on weapon...
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...percent off if you are using the device for school or college. Procon.org also states, “Physical textbooks cost more then eBooks so using tablets is a great idea and is less on the districts budget”. With this deal, schools will be able to provide tablets without going above their school budget. According to a student, he only spent eighty dollars on his digital copy. The used hard copy would have cost him two hundred dollars. With this information, eBooks is the better deal for both students and the school system. If students begin using technology at an early age such as kindergarten, they will be better equipped to handle technology if or when they use it in future classes or there work place. Now teachers are worried that some kids will either lose or accidentally break electronics. However, if students learn how to handle technology at an early age such as kindergarten. These children will be able to handle it better when they move on to high school and college. Some top educators have done research and found that it would be wise to start using technology at a young age. Why because they found that even at the age of...
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...differently in elementary school than girls? “Statistically speaking, there are more boy geniuses than there are girl geniuses; if this is true, then why is there a major disparity in achievement between boys versus girls in school?” (Fioriello 1). In my opinion the disparity lies with some teachers not having enough patience to deal with little boys in the classroom. Nor do they possess proper training to differentiate the fact that; boys are very much different than girls in chemical brain development. Even before my son was born I have always wondered and suspected if boys are treated differently in school than their girl counterparts? This question has been on my mind of years as an afterthought, but once my son entered kindergarten my suspicions were once again aroused. I have always kept abreast of the growing issues of class room disparity among boys and girls; it was always something that interested. Now that I have my son Michael, who by the way entered first grade this year, I am in full battle gear. I am a one woman advocate at this point for boys and learning. Let me point out now, this is not a paper on race disparity in the public school system, it is a paper on gender disparity. Yes, there is a racial discontent among African American and Alston 2 Hispanic boys in the classroom concerning learning and being taught. I refuse to jump on the racial...
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...Historical development of early childhood care and educational services The following essay will discuss the philosophical, historical, political, social and economic factors that have contributed to the development of Early Childhood Care and Education services in Australia within a global perspective. Early childhood education (ECE) today consists of a number of crèches, preschools, kindergartens, primary classes and early intervention programs (Woodill, 1992). Educational theory and practice stretches from Ancient Greek philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle (Biggs & Potter, 1999), into the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, on to more recent centuries (McCarthy & Houston, 1980). Among these, three of the most influential in the field of early childhood education are Johann Pestalozzi, Freidrich Wilhelm Froebel, and Maria Montessori. Early ideas have shaped the provision of care and educational services into those currently operating in Australia today. During medieval times very little importance was placed on childhood. As a result, this period was marked with a view of ‘preformationism’. This was a view that saw children “as miniature, already formed adults” (Berk, 1996, p.6). During this time, the idea that children were unique surreptitiously began to emerge when the church defended the innocence of children. The sixteenth century saw a different image of children emerge born out of protestant belief. This belief raised the idea that children were born evil and needed to...
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...Kawonda Starling Programs and Curriculum Planning ECE 312 Administrations of Early Childhood Ed. Programs Instructor Tracy Reed June 2, 2013 Early childhood education programs are formed by administrators coming together to form curriculums for teachers in the program to have as a guide to teach young children. For an example, each county has a board of education for the school system with administrators who form a curriculum for teachers to teach by; and administrators leads the teachers to make sure the teachers are teaching children based on the curriculum formed by the board of education. Child care centers usually form curriculums based around what program the center is accredited by through the state. For an example, here in Georgia we have a program name “Bright from the Start” which has standards each center must meet to be on the program and have curriculum for each child care center to follow. Whether it is a school system or childcare center administrators and teachers must work together to teach from the curriculums formed so children can learn. How the role of the administrator in program and curriculum planning is different from that of the teacher. Education administrators organize and manage the administration, support systems and activities that facilitate the effective running of an educational institution (AGCAS 2012). For an example, in a childcare center the administrators are the owners, directors, and whatever program that accredited the daycare...
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...With kindergarten now mandatory under the K to 12 program, the Department of Education (DepEd) has required preschools and day care centers to comply with the standard requisite age for preschoolers. The preschool age should normally be up to 5 years old only, since by 6 years old a child is expected to be in Grade 1, according to the DepEd. Under Republic Act No. 10157 or the universal public kindergarten program passed last year, the DepEd made one year of kindergarten compulsory and a prerequisite to entering Grade 1. Kindergarten is free to 5-year-olds in the public elementary schools under the K to 12 basic education reform program, which consists of kindergarten, six years of elementary, two years of junior high and two years of senior high school. “Private (pre)schools should follow (the standard),” Education Undersecretary for Programs and Projects Yolanda Quijano said. “Whether they have nursery, kinder 1 or kinder 2 levels, they should now follow [the standard] that kinder is for 5-year-olds and Grade 1 is for 6-year-olds,” she said. Quijano clarified that while the DepEd required only one year of kindergarten, parents who can afford private day care centers or preschools can have their children start school as young as 3 or 4 years old to prepare them for regular schooling. Before the mandatory kindergarten, some private preschools had pupils as old as 6 and 7 years old. Quijano said that having “over-age” or older than 5 years old pupils in kindergarten would...
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...Liberty University’s Standard Lesson Plan Form |Lesson Plan: Hands on Mathematic | |Name: Charity Burns |Course: EDUC 360 | |LESSON PREPARATION [Before the lesson] | |Topic: Shapes and colors poster/ addition and subtraction |Specific Strategy: Introduction to the definition of taste, | | |the sensory descriptors, and the body part that helps us | | |taste things. | |Subject: math |Grade: 1st grade | |State Standard: | |1.A.1.1 Model addition and subtraction situations using the concepts of "part-whole," "adding to," "taking away from," "comparing," and | |"missing addend." | |Addition with...
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