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Early Childhood Education

• Amanda Zeier

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Background Information

• Began in mid-1800s in Kindergarten in private
  home
• Head Start-mid-1960s
• Illinois-1985
• 250 thousand children attend preschool each year
• Pre-K in 45 states by 2006

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Our Mission

• Our primary mission is to meet the
  developmental needs of the whole child in a warm
  and nurturing environment. Children are our
  first priority in anything we do. We make sure
  the children are happy and ready to learn every
  day. It is essential to support children to
  develop skills necessary to construct their own
  knowledge and prepare them for their next school
  environment.

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Infants

• 6 weeks to age 3
• Parents as teachers
• provides parents with child development knowledge
  and parenting support
• Parenting Tips
• Reading together builds early literacy and
  motivation
• Babies listen from birth even only 5 months in
  the womb
• Nursery rhymes attract attention
• With babies Pick one or two rhymes to use before
  bedtime. She will like to hear the same rhyme
  over and over and will begin to associate it with
  being sleepy. This will help her go to sleep.

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Preschool

• Ages 3 to 5
• Preparation Is your child ready?
• Physical, cognitive, social, and emotional
• Hands-on approach
• Websites for preschoolers
• Abc Toon Center http//www.abctooncenter.com/
• Chateau Meddybemps http//www.meddybemps.com/

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Kindergarten

• Stimulate childrens curiosity to learn more
  about the world around them

• Literacy
• Noticing words in stores, class, and all around
  them
• Math
• Counting cubes, number rods, other materials such
  as cookies and candy to count
• Science
• Plants, animals, weather, seasons
• Social Studies
• Rules to get along
• Forming opinions and issues

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First Grade

• Literacy
• Print words legibly
• Locate main idea and details
• Math
• Count to 100 by ones, twos, fives, and tens
• Add and subtract numbers up to and from 10
• Science
• Observations of the natural world
• Weather, plants, animals
• Social Studies
• Use maps and globes

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Second Grade

• Literacy
• reading without stopping to figure out words
• Story writers (personal and 3rd person)
• Math
• Add and subtract double digits
• Understand meaning of multiplication and division
• Science
• Earth and natural resources
• Social Studies
• Learn about people and places of their local
  communities and regions, and compare them to
  other communities and regions.

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Third Grade

• Literacy
• Maps, webs, venn diagrams
• Reports, creative fiction, and personal
  narratives
• Math
• Larger numbers, fractions, decimals, odd even
  numbers
• Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division
• Science
• Sun, moon, planets
• Solids, liquids and gas
• Social Studies
• Natural environment

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School Activity For All Ages

• Recycling
• Recycling can be a fun and easy activity for all
  ages. Children will learn how they can make a
  difference in the environment.
• Here is a video to help children get motivated
  and want to recycle on their own
  http//player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?gui
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