Preschool Site Visit Analysis

My observations both did and did not reflect what I learned in this course. This could be due to the fact that this daycare center may not be the best learning environment. A perfect daycare center would be everything that is described in the Petersen & Wittmer text, but how often do you get somewhere that is perfect? I feel my quality could have been better for this observation because I filled out of checklist with a majority of it is “NA.” I wish I would have had this checklist when I started my observations. I could have tested some of them with the children to make it more accurate. Since I do work at this daycare, I used my background knowledge as well as my observation sheets to fill out this checklist. My observations could have been

The Kids Learning Centre is a privately-owned day care facility and non-formal educational institution for children up to 12 years old. It is located at the heart of the City of Downtown, just behind The Business Building, a convenient place where parents and guardians can drop off their children safely. It operates from 6:30 AM to 6:00 PM daily, and closes only during major holidays.

Through interviewing Joyce I gained insight into a strong philosophy, leadership style, and how her background experiences have created the director she is today. When deciding to become a director of a daycare, there are two options: opening and owning your own center or directing an established or corporate owned daycare. While I have done much research on owning my own daycare, I have little experience about what it would be like to be the director of an established center. Financial responsibilities and budgeting are also two aspects that are important, but the level of responsibility is drastically different in each scenario. Lastly, legal and ethical responsibilities exist in either scenario as well.

For the classroom observation assignment I was able to observe at Stepping Stones Family Childcare and Preschool Program. I conducted observations for five hours each on the dates of September 24th and September 25th of the year 2015. This licensed home-based daycare and preschool program is located in a quiet suburban neighborhood on 4103 Bryant Street, Blasdell, New York. The facility allows for a twelve-child capacity (ages 6 weeks to 12 years with four additional school age) and is owned and founded by Kim Bannister. When I observed, there were two additional staff present. Therefore, there were a total of 3 adults and 12 children at the center when I observed. New York State Senator Marc C. Panepinto was also present on September 25th as he read to the children and toured the home. I chose this specific setting as I personally thought it would be an interesting dynamic to study how a home-based preschool program is run.

The place I observed was the Infant Development Program in their preschool program called Stepping Stones Preschool in Lock Haven, PA. I observed in one of their three to five year old preschool programs that is held on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday afternoons from 11:30am to 2:30pm. This particular classroom had two head teachers; Mrs. Kate and Mrs. Lisa. The teacher call their students Owls this is because their class name is Owls. When they want to get the kids to listen to them or they want to get their attention a teacher will say “Owls Owls Whoo Whoo” and the kids will say “Owls Owls Whoo Whoo”. Another thing the teachers will also refer to the students as friends. In this classroom there was four boys and four girls. I observed two

For this segment, you will compare and contrast two different pieces of writing in preparation for eventually writing a compare-contrast essay. You will

Name some examples of the effective use of compare and contrast essays. Explain the key differences, identified on pp. 255–256, between the two basic organizational methods for comparison and contrast.

The stories that will be compared for this essay will be Everyday Use by Alice Walker and I Stand Here Ironing by Tillie Olsen. These two stories both share similar themes about motherhood and its difficulties especially in fairness between siblings. The two main daughters in both of these stories come off as feeling inadequate in comparison to their other siblings. The mothers in both the stories are trying so hard to make them feel deserving of happiness in life. The story Everyday Use is narrated in first and second person by the mother. The theme of this story to me seems like sibling rivalry and how their mother is doing her best to make sure that both of her daughters receive the same amount of respect. In this story a woman named Dee returns home to try and acquire some objects to show off to others. She is denied when she attempts to take some quilts that were promised to her sister which causes her to throw a fit about. The story I Stand Here Ironing is narrated in first person by the mother. The theme of this story is the regret. The main character, the mother, is struggling with her decisions on how she raised her eldest daughter since she had to send her away so much when she was young whereas with her other kids she kept them all through their childhood and raised them.

in a well written essay, compare/contrast the way the author of our class novel and the author of the article, poem, OR short story use imagery and tone to reveal their attitudes toward their life experience. You may only choose ONE piece of literature to compare/contrast your novel.

After reading the compare and contrast essay examples, there were three that stood out to me. The essays written by Musser, Vigallon, and Packer are the ones that I will review. I learned a lot from reading these essays, and I will use what I learned when writing my own compare and contrast essay.

The second essay I had to write was a comparative analysis. Unlike the advertisement analysis, in this essay, I had to compare two seemingly different topics. The topics were chosen for me: high school and feudalism. When assigned this essay, I was not sure what feudalism was. I did research to get an

In the book, “Expressways writing scenarios” chapter 14 Comparison and Contrast by Kathleen McWhorter gives an overview of comparing and contrasting an essay structure. To compare and contrast one can brainstorm and make two columns one compare that is similarities and the second contrast that is the differences. By listing them into two categories, it will make it easier for one to link these two. Also to help one is to make point of comparison and contrast which puts the details of the subjects into groups. Pointing out the characteristics and the features of the subjects. The two ways to organize paragraphs one can use the subject-by-subject or point by point methods. The subject-by-subject method one write both subject convert them, then

In this Compare And Contrast essay i will be comparing of what my parents think i will do this year and how i will do this year. We will be looking at the similarities of what i said and what my parent said. Then we will look at the differences of what i said and what my parent said then i will compare to see what is similar and what the differences are between my writing and my parents.

Persuasive Essay Intro: For a second, try and picture yourself in 6th grade and realizing that you won't get recess anymore. Now, a deeper question. Do you remember how much fun you had in those 30 minute breaks? All the joy that you always felt while playing with your friends.

I choose Teeny Tots Day Nursery which is in the Saffron Centre rated as a GOOD setting on 5th December 2013. I have chosen this nursery because my cousin attended this nursey and her mom thought of it as a very good nursery and I also chose because of other reasons is well. One of the reasons was that they treat children equally and they don’t discriminate children.