Kindergarten Chats By Louis H. Sullivan

How Babies Talk is a book written by Roberta Michnick Golinkoff and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek. The book discusses how babies acquire language throughout various stages (The first three years of life) of their infant life. The chapter I chose to elaborate on was chapter 7, which outlines language and grammar between the ages of twenty-four to thirty-six months.

I was born on October 4th, 2000. I am Mexican American because I was born here in Dallas Texas but my parents were born in Mexico. According to my parents I was a small, healthy baby who weighed 6 pounds. When I was little my dad said that he would always video tape me. One time according to my dad, I was crawling around the floor and I put something in my mouth, then he asked me to give it to him and it was a fly! I get so embarrassed when he tells that story.

The summary and critical reflection of the book, Out of Our Minds: Learning to be creative" is presented as follows (Robinson, 2011)

Thought can take time and effort, it can be meticulously simple. Thought can be quick and easy, simply saying the first thing that pops into your mind. Thought can be anything you want, imaginative, serious, etc. In the book Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury shows that everyone is capable of thinking for themselves, some people just don’t want to, or they feel like they don’t have the time.

Your job isn’t to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.”

While writing, most of us don’t think of the ways we develop and create ideas or how we construct them into words. We don’t think about where we get the ideas from and how we choose to write what we write. Some say our ideas come from our own knowledge and experiences and that we simply make connections. While others say that ideas are always taken from different sources. In the text “Tracing Trajectories of Practice” by Kevin Roozen, Roozen discusses his study which traces the ways in which people write what they write. The text mentions a participant named Lindsey as an example, and explains Lindsey’s process and the methods she uses while writing.

An idea is almost like a thought. You can’t see it, you can’t smell it, you can’t taste it, you can’t really hear it, and you can’t touch it. But it is existent. Its contents can be fulfilled and its purpose served. It is an object without a material self.

Explain how the range of early years settings reflects the scope and purpose of the sector

In his 1947 essay, “Thought,” Louis H. Sullivan offers concepts on how to improve one’s creative thinking process. He suggests that the most highly productive, creative thinking is accomplished better without the use of words, thus promoting the use of more imaginative cogitating. Sullivan calls the process of thinking an art, a science, and compares it to being like an army. He also equates thinking to being a philosophy, and it is here that a problem arises. He mentions the use of reading and states, “The best that reading and listening can do is to stimulate you to think your own thoughts, but nine times out of ten, you are thinking the other man’s thought, not your own.” Sullivan is suggesting that generally, the act of reading only permits the reader access to the author’s thought process and does not allow them to develop their own ideas from the source. Therefore, does the act of reading diminish one’s creativity and originality? Certainly not, reading inspires one to meditate on the source’s idea; therefore, stirring up the reader’s thought process to create new thinking schemes.

In my opinion the way to get other to accept your ideas is you have to be a person of integrity, this is the first and foremost key to being able to have others accept your ideas. Once you have respect with others your words will have meaning and people will accept your ideas, doesn’t mean they may agree with them but they can at least respect them.

I heartily agree with his assertion–In fact, I even felt a little agitated when the author began to outline the success of Alex Osborn, as I think brainstorming is overrated. Being a student today where the “Collaboration” is the new, trendy buzzword, I can attest to the fact that brainstorming’s great efficiency is a myth. While Alex Osborn claims that the quantity of ideas is more important than their

It is impossible to produce a piece of writing without creativity and imagination. As the foundation of writing, these aspects of writing creativity enhance the learning experience of oneself and others. Creativity and imagination also serves a therapeutic function by enabling individuals to escape whatever harsh realities they may be forced to endure. In addition, extending far beyond the creation of literature or fiction, these unique aspects of writing also enable one to establish and strengthen their own expressions, empathies, and criticisms of themselves and the world around

According to Baird and colleagues, mind wandering can enhance creativity goals and problems that were encountered. Creativity finds solutions that are novel, and high quality (Matlin, 2009). J.P. Guilford researched how we measure creativity. Creativity should be measured by divergent production. This research demonstrates the number of different responses that are made for each test item (Matlin, 2009).

Edwards, C. P. (2002). Three Approaches from Europe: Waldorf, Montessori, and Reggio Emilia. Early Childhood Research and Practice, 4(1), 2-14. Retrieved from http://ecrp.uiuc.edu/v4n1/edwards.html

Alice Sterling Honig, author of an article “Play: Ten Power Boosts for Children’s Early Learning”, states that “children gain powerful knowledge and useful social skills through play” (p.126). Honig, who believes that play is essential for young children’s development, points out ten ways in which children can learn through play activity.