Personal Narrative: Nurturing The Growing Senses Of Young Children

The Nursery set out many different activities for the Children. This is designed for them for the different areas that they develop within the Nursery. They are set to reach all the areas of learning, Personal social and emotional development, communication language and literacy development, problem solving reasoning and numeracy, knowledge and understanding of the world, physical development and creative development. With all these different resources the Children begin to recognize their skills and how to use them. For an example, in the toddler room the creative area always has something out, the toddlers can then sit at the table, start to do mark making on the paper and realize they are drawing on paper. They created a picture!

The Middle Tyger Community Center’s volunteer coordinator, Donna Dawkins, was very excited about my interest to volunteer with their This is My Child early education program. She was able to work me into the agency’s busy schedule and was also super understanding of my packed agenda and limited time. My first volunteer experience I spent in the one year old classroom. The teachers have a routine based schedule that is performed every day. Each student is to be dropped off, find their assign seat, eat breakfast, throw away their OWN trash, and then wait their turn for their health check. When their name is called, each of the children know what they are expected to do. He or she comes to the sink, brushes their teeth, and climbs up to the changing

At different ages children learn a lot differently, as babies they learn with their senses, through feeling different textures, looking at bright colours, and hearing different sounds. Therefore they learn through sensory play such as feely toys such as toys that have different textures and feels, as they grow to around 12 months they will be able to explore the world around them and play with sensory toys such as cornflour play and playdough. Also setting activities around the nursery is good for the children as they are able to chose their own play and initiate their own play, also this gives the practitioners a chance to recognise what each individual child enjoys playing with and what their own interests are to help them to focus activities

I conducted my observation at Oakwood Methodist Preschool on May 9, 2016 at 9:30 in the morning and 3:00 in the afternoon. The child I observed was a 16-month old female that I did have previously relations too. I use to work at Oakwood Methodist as an Extended Care Teacher. I use to care for Baby M in the infant room. During the observation there were two teachers, and 7 infants. The room that the observation took place in had many toys such as: balls, bouncers, walkers, rattles, and soft plush books. There was also a play mat where all the toys were, and two rocking chairs in the room. During this observation I focused on 6 different developmental domains. In my paper I am going to discuss perception, motor skills, cognitive ability, communication/language, social skills, and emotions.

The caregiver should create a safe and area large enough for movement. Once the infants have a secure attachment with the caregiver, they willing leave for independent exploring. They need time and space to move and explore, repeatedly. Also, they need for solitary exploring. Infants should be able move independently in the classroom. Including developmentally appropriate materials in the classroom is important when nurturing cognitive development. In the first few months, infants need materials for visual reaching. Their toys should be able to move, talk, make music, cuddle, and is highly educational. Stuffed animals are great for infants who use a palmar grasp. Sturdy board books, stack rings, and push buttons are great for infants who use a pincer grasp. Mobile infants can play with small dolls, cars, trucks, and push and pull

Ask their opinion of what they could make to help you make the baby's room special. Get creative and make this a fun project, because they will remember being part of the process, and be sure to proudly point out the work of art to Daddy and everyone who enters the nursery.

Since August of my junior year, I have worked with third graders in language development students came to me when they needed help or someone to talk to. R.O.P Occupations with Young Children taught me leadership skills and how to build strong relationships with students who went to me for guidance. I assisted students in System 44, a program designed to help students who were below grade level in their reading and writing skills. Each student was required to read a book followed by filling out a reading log. This is where I came in to help. Most students were unable to read correctly; ordinarily they had no understanding of the reading. While the students were working on their reading log, I was often beside them, giving them ideas and advice about answers to questions about the book. There were moments in which students did not know the definition of a word or the pronunciation; they called me to help them. A student named Luis would always raise his hand and had me go through the book with him.

A long time ago back in Alton where I used to live there was going to be a big change for me. I was little didn't remember much, but i do remember the move van. I remember the men carrying my things rom the car to the house. Me and my father were standing out side, he got me villanelle ice cream and I was trying to make it last on that hot summer day. “Dad why did we leave our home?” I asked with ice cream running down my hand. H said “ We didn’t leave our home, home is where your family is.” I realized that day that we didn't leave our home, home is where you make it.

Growing up, I never really liked children. From the crying over no reason to the whiny voices of deceitful little monsters, the feeling of overwhelmness and depression seemed to rush into me instantaneously whenever I was near one. I dreaded helping out in the nursery during Relief Society Enrichments and yearned to be free when I was stuck babysitting hyper little ones who did not seem to know what an indoor voice was and was all too familiar with screaming. The thought of having kids, let alone being near them was a nightmare. As I saw my peers coo and fuss over a first grader (who seemed to me, knew just the kind of power he had) for hours, I wandered how anyone could be so fascinated by a simple child. It was not until my Junior year that I received more than just that answer.

First year going to a private school or any school. Was really nervous, but so was everyone else.. There was only two other African American kids in the grade.

One thing that was important to me as kid was Halloween. As a kid dressing up as scary characters and getting candy from like 5pm to around 9/10pm. Running around with my parents and saying trick or treat was a blast.Also seeing the older kids egging other people's houses.Sometimes the other kids would scar me with what they had on. While I was getting older I started getting less interesting in the dressing up part. I really just wanted the candy, but in order to get the candy I had to dress up. 2013 was my last time dressing up for Halloween. Now i just buy my candy at the store and get some of it from my sisters. This year I plan on going with my friends that go to Mundy's Mill high.

You have an unlimited budget for redesigning a local child care center that serves children 6 weeks to 6 years old. Given what you know about sensory and perceptual capabilities of infants and young children, what equipment and toys will you purchase, and how will you remodel and redecorate the rooms?

Upon reading the assignment, I was immediately drawn to the baby play mat. It’s basically your one stop shop for baby entertainment: it lights up, it makes noise, and it’s comfortable enough for naps. The baby mat I chose has a suggested age of 3 months which I believe is appropriate due to the infants visual limitations as well as it contributes to the infants cognitive, motor, and perceptual development.

The kingdom of childhood is a palace of creativity and being care free, once you transition into the realm of adulthood you have to face the raw emotion and decisions that can determine your future. This transition was especially rough for the twelve year old me, in the spring of 2010 my grandmother was diagnosed with cancer. My parents were trying to keep the cancer fact a secret from my sister and I, to this day I still don’t know if that was under my grandmother’s wishes or my parent’s choice. At the time she was diagnosed she was living in a little house only a few blocks away from us. My sister and I would always race our bikes over to her house; the prize was the first one getting to see grandma. One day our parents weren’t home so my sister and I decided to bike on over, when I raced along the curve road that lead to her street I noticed that my family’s car was

Like many people everyone wants to find their calling and figure out where they belong. My parents moved to the United States risking their lives on a boat from Haiti but soon separated while in america . My mom did a great job raising four kids on her own and I being the second child took part in raising my two younger siblings. In elementary school I struggled in many subjects but excelled in art, when I finally learned to read and went to middle school my grades were high enough to have honors reading and social study classes and even apa classes in highschool. I continued to excel in a lot of my classes, turns out I was smarter than I thought and all I need to do was learn to read and have people who took the time to teach me.