Handbook. Early Childhood Development. Education Essay

Early Childhood Development
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Institution
An individual future is greatly influenced with the kind of upbringing one gets. Growing up poor or rich may determine you future life, growing up in abusive or loving family will also influence your future life, these and other factors have influence in later days of an individual. However, the early child development program that was implemented for guiding and aiding in child’s development has a way and provides a more researched practical method to raise and mold an individual from a tender age so that one can grow and develop effectively. What one learns at early stages is vital for the individual and the society large, the more effective the child becomes the more the society benefits and hence it is a key factor to consider while raising an individual. To have an effective early childcare program there must be an effective team that is taking care of the children needs and wants. These care providers need special training, guides and the will to do the same. The guide given helps to create a conducive environment for the children and the teachers so that learning and development can take place, as it ought to in general.
A childcare program is normally custom made for various regions and settings; this is so because some programs in one region may not work in another region. Custom making the childcare program means that children in that area will get the learning they deserve and the environment will allow development to take its course. Programs for urban setting may differ from those of rural areas; age bracket may also force the programs to differ to ensure that all needs are taken care of by the set guides. For example, for children in New York City has a group child care that serves children 6 years and below. Article 47 and other sections of the New York City Health Department regulate the program. As children in urban centers are surrounded by new technology, there is need to incorporate the same today.
Learning experiences
Part II
Nutrition theme
Activity: Fruit and Vegetable cards
Sarah Punkoney
Montessori
Objective: This is a great activity to promote healthy eating of fruits and vegetables.
Supplies: fruits and vegetables handouts cards, downloaded food graph
Procedure: Have the children sorts the cards by color placing them on the floor in every vegetable and fruit color. Then handout cards one by one until all the pictures are sorted. Thus, this activity does not only introduce the children to the different kinds of vegetables and fruits available but also promote healthy eating as the child will be motivated to eat what she picks up at a school lesson. After sorting the cards, the same exact materials are used to graph a picture color, which helps them identify that we eat more foods of the one color than the others do and that is green.
Assessment: the teacher is able to instill the benefits of eating greens through this activity.
Activity: food group sort book
Cc: Sarah Punkoney
This activity for preschoolers to think about what they love eating most and the feeling they get eating. It involves cutting two sheets of construction paper into half lengthwise. The folding the sheets into half and make a booklet by s...