Responses of young children to integration of senses from their world around them!

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Responses of young children to integration of
senses from their world around them!

• Nancy Kaczrowski, MS-ECE
• nancy.kaczrowski_at_hotmail.com

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Workshop Objectives

• to know how a young child's brain is filled with
  interwoven feelings, actions
• to connect thoughts and how this impacts
  social/emotional development
• to understand the wiring that is continually
  happening in a child's brain
• to develop practical and enjoyable techniques
• to describe how young children react to
  sensations and how they integrate responses

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What we notice types of minds1) keen
observer2) things that appeal3) remarkable
concentration4) ways out
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Executive Function

• Prefrontal cortex of brain
• Intellectual skills and social/emotional
  capabilities
• Driven by goals
• Used for managing
• Pulls together feelings and thinking
• Allows us to reflect, analyze, plan, evaluate

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Marshmallow Test

• Classic study
• Uncover importance of self control
• Choice one marshmallow now or two later
• Wait and focus and self control
• Initial response to larger goals and greater
  success

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Towel folding
Reflect backwards Scaffold forwards
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.to know how a young child's brain is filled
with interwoven feelings, actions

• Guiding questions
• Culture
• Individual needs
• 5 W H

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.to connect thoughts and how this impacts
social/emotional development

• Authoritarian
• Jaw breaker
• Permissive
• Gumdrops
• Authoritative
• Licorice

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.to understand the wiring that is continually
happening in a child's brain
C call attention to the behavior A ask how the
child feeling and doing R recognize consequences
of actions E express feeling for behavior
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.to develop practical and enjoyable techniques

• Packaging the learning
• Motivate
• Transfer
• Style
• Comfort

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.to describe how young children react to
sensations and how they integrate responses

• Active learning is
• Discovery
• Delight
• Determination
• Discipline

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Choices!
As we gain self awareness we employ behaviors and
attitudes and believe in self that we adopt to
master lessons and skills becoming successful
lifelong learners being capable and loveable and
competent.
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You Rock!!

• Fun Zone
• Stay in moment comfort and focus
• Explore something never done before, use 5
  senses
• Be creative, something new
• Ask questions learn from experts
• Soup hug from inside out!

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Research Findings

• NAEYC July 2011 Vol. 66 No. 4
• PLAY Stuart Brown MD
• Cards on the Table Agatha Christie
• The Out of Sync Child Carol S Kranowitz
• Last Child in the Woods Richard Louv

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Young Children and Literacy
Did you know that children begin their path to
reading as babies when they hear and respond to
the sound of a human voice? Listening,
talking, reading, and writing are all parts of
early literacy learningand theyre all
connected. Young children learn about literacy
through everyday things at home.
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Ways to encourage literacy at home

• 1. Talk and listen
• 2. Read aloud together
• 3. Explore the sounds of language
• 4. Offer alphabet activities
• 5. Support budding readers and writers as they
  test their new skills
• 6. Offer books throughout your home and even
  outdoors
• 7. Support budding writers with lots of materials
• 8. Explain how books and print work
• 9. Build a home book collection

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