Growth and Development

1. Growth and Development Week 2

2. What does a kindergarten classroom look like? • You will see children who are confident in their movements and who can easily manipulate a variety of materials. • Demonstrate what they have mastered the basic skills associated with preschoolers, and the school age children become adept at complex movements. • School age children actively participate in sports activities that require the ability to combine a variety of physical movements.

3. Full day kindergarten in ontario http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/curriculum/elementary/kindergarten.html

4. Fundamental principals of play based learning • 1. Play is recognized as a child’s right, and it is essential to the child’s optimal development. • The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child recognizes “the right of the child ... to engage in play ... appropriate to the age of the child” and “to participate freely in cultural life and the arts”.

5. Fundamental principals of play based learning • 2. All children are viewed as competent, curious, capable of complex thinking, and rich in potential and experience. • In play based learning, educators honor every child’s views, ideas, and theories; imagination and creativity; and interests and experiences, including the experience of assuming new identities in the course of learning (e.g., “I am a writer!”; “I am a dancer!”).

6. Fundamental principals of play based learning • 3. A natural curiosity and a desire to explore, play, and inquire are the primary drivers of learning among young children. • Play and inquiry engage, challenge, and energize children, promoting an active, alert, and focused state of mind that is conducive to learning. • Children’schoicesinplayarethebeststartingpointsfortheco-construction of learning with the child.

7. Fundamental principals of play based learning • 4. The learning environment plays a key role in what and how a child learns. • A learning environment that is safe and welcoming supports children’s well-being and ability to learn by promoting the development of individual identity and by ensuring equity6 and a sense of belonging for all. • A learning environment that inspires joy, awe, and wonder promotes learning.

8. Fundamental principals of play based learning • 5. In play-based learning programs, assessment supports the child’s learning and autonomy as a learner. • In play-based learning, educators, children, and family members collaborate in ongoing assessment for and as learning to support children’s learning and their cognitive, physical, social, and emotional development. • Assessment in play-based learning involves "making thinking and learning visible” by documenting and reciting on what the child says, does, and represents in play and inquiry.

9. Importance of play • Play is a vehicle for learning and rests at the core of innovation and creativity. It provides opportunities for learning in a context in which children are at their most receptive. • Play and academic work are not distinct categories for young children, and learning and doing are also inextricably linked for them.

10. Importance of play https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnH4Ijen7OI

11. Importance of play • It has long been acknowledged that there is a strong link between play and learning for young children, especially in the areas of problem solving, language acquisition, literacy, and mathematics, as well as the developmentof social, physical, and emotional skills

12. Kindergarten Room Tour • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cbNDsExw3w Observe some of the many types of items she has in her classroom. Record them and we will discuss after. Please keep this on hand as this will be mid term material.

13. COD :Continuum of development

14. Social • Friendship • Conflict Resolution and Social Problem Solving Skills • Co-operation • Helping Skills • Empathy • Taking Another's Point of View https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFTspq_nzG4

15. Emotional • Self Concept • Identity Formation • Self-Esteem • Recognizing and Expressing Emotions • Regulating Emotions and Behavior • Positive Attitudes toward Learning, such as Persistence, Engagement, Curiosity and a Sense of Memory. • Race test https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkpUyB2xgTM

16. Communication, language and literacy • Verbal and Non Verbal Communication • Vocabulary • Conversing with Peers and Adults • Phonological Awareness and Phonics • Knowledge of Print • Reading • Writing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqZuogH6IZs

17. Vocabulary D O G C A T M O U S E

18. Phonological awareness A –“ahhhh” sound B - “buhh” sound C - “Cuhh” sound D –“duuhh” sound

19. Knowledge of Print (Big) A a (little) B b C c D d E e

20. Reading https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PLB58ePPbs

21. Writing

22. Cognitive • Self Regulation • Problem Solving • Representation • Memory • Inquiry • Classifying • Measuring Length, Weight, Capacity, Temperature, Time and Money • Completing Number Operations • Spatial Relations, Directions, Map • Temporal Relations • Games with Rules https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcpl97TQp0Y

23. Self Regulation • Look for clues about children who are facing internal self regulation. • Ability to control themselves, emotions and attention.

26. Self Regulation • I told my kids that I ate all their Halloween Candy • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1pTZTHZF4E

27. Problem Solving • Looks differently in different curriculum areas. • Solving puzzles, figuring out stacking cups, stacking blocks are all forms of problem solving.

29. Problem Solving • Human Baby Experiment • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-rWB1jOt9s

30. Representation • Representation: using other forms of materials to represent their thoughts and ideas. • Example: Building a car out of math blocks • Example: Creating drawings into 3D representations.

31. Memory • Memory is large skill children are developing. Everything in their routine is repetitive so getting children to recite things from memory builds on their cognition. • Example: Singing the days of the week song off by heart, Remembering to count from 1-10 without using fingers and being able to recite rules without thinking about them.

33. Inquiry • This is a very important part of a child’s development. We are constantly encouraging a child to ask question and inquire more. • Science and Math generally pose most of the Inquiry question but this can also be done in art and or reading/writing.

34. Inquiry

36. Classifying • Being able to sort things by category. At this age they are generally able to sort by color so you take the next step getting them to classify animals or even objects.

38. Measuring Length, Weight, Capacity, Temperature, Time and Money • Using units of measurement to figure out certain problems. • Eg: 1 cup for baking • Eg: 10 cm for measurement • Eg: 10:30 am for time

39. Completing Number Operations 7 + 5 = 2 – 2 = 5 – 1 =

40. Patterning

41. Spatial Relations, Directions and Map • Understanding direction and spatial reasoning. Why the couch is here, why the desks are there. • Right Hand and Left Hand • Learning to understand how to read basic mapping.

42. Temporal Relations • Understanding longer periods of time, and using units of time. • “We have been in school for 1,2,3,4 months that is 120 days.” • “When the little hand is on the 2 and the big hand is on the twelve, that is 2 o'clock.”

43. Games with Rules • Social skill. Being able to play a game with children that has rules. • Eg: Monopoly, Chess, Snakes and Ladders, Matching Games, Sports Activities (ex: “tag, your it”)

44. Physical • Gross Motor Skills • Running • Jumping • Throwing • Catching • Kicking • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84CDbnybOw8

45. What are some games we can do to promote these physical skills?