Personalizing Your Blog

Blog Assignment: Personalizing Your Blog

Quote- “The Children in our classroom are more significant than the subject matter we teach.”      *Meledee McCarty

This quote is meaningful to me because reaching children is vital. Organizational skills also come to mind because children cannot be reached unless they’re in an organized environment. I also feel this skill effects our marketing effort because parental opinions are formed by their first impressions of our programs/classrooms and second chances are rarely given.

One of my favorite children’s books is “In The Tall Tall Grass” by Denise Fleming. I chose this book because it has attainable goals and skills a teacher can teach across the board. The skills are as follow:

1.       Word families

2.       Math/sets/graphs/matching

3.       Science/ habitats/social studies/day light and night time

4.       Repetition (the caterpillar is shown on all pages and children will notice that)

5.       Literacy/rhyming words

6.       An edible experience would be “dirt cups”-crushed Oreos, vanilla pudding and gummy worms

7.       The children can act out each action word

 

 

One thing that fuels me the most about children in Early Childhood is all children can be reached, as a teacher meeting them where they are is the most important factor. Families must come to a realization in helping the teachers meet the goals necessary for their child. One thing that reminds me that a simple goal can be met extends back when I had an autistic child and the mom assured me he did not and will not talk. Well one day we were saying the pledge and he said, “and justice for all…you may be seated.” This was something that was recited on a daily basis and remained with him after months had passed. My paraprofessional and I were so excited; we called our supervisor, his ancillary teachers, the mother and our child diagnostician.