The daycare environment challenges the children to respond deeply to the natural world and inner world by encouraging risk taking activities and setting up different materials for the children to explore. The environment does not challenge children to respond to their cultural heritage but the environment does encourage diversity. It is the educator’s job to prepare “a stimulating environment that fosters play and exploration is an essential part of the work of a teacher of preschool children” (Fraser, 2013, p. 67). The environment is a third teacher. The environment challenges the children to respond deeply to their natural surroundings because the educators try to have the children play outside in the sun and in the rain. They will try to have the children going outside more than staying indoors. In the rain, …show more content…
When some children did go outside they liked to pick up sticks and climbed the fences; however, an educator was always present at the scene and ready to help if the children need it. Indoors, children like to run around, climb, and jump. “It is worth the significant investment of thought and time required to introduce these materials and organize them in ways that provide visibility and access, invite investigation and respect, and contribute to the aesthetic beauty of the setting” (Callaghan, 2013, p. 13). “Children can be supported to develop relationships with materials that call upon them to be mindful and respectful, when they are given the opportunity to learn to be responsible for their own safety, and to care for their environment” (Gambetti, 2002 as cited in Callaghan, 2013, p. 13). Children engage with the materials available for them. In the gym, the children immediately engaged with the jumping box in front of them. While some children played at the jumping box area, other children played with wooden
We know that a rich and varied environment supports children’s learning and development. It gives them the confidence to explore and learn in secure and safe, yet challenging, indoor and outdoor spaces.
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Ali and Derek Dodd recently lost their 11-week-old son, Shepard, after he was put to sleep at daycare in a carseat.
According to Ginsburg (2006), he believes that play is a vital part of children’s development and is fundamental for every child. This is because playing in a safe outdoor environment will benefit children in acquiring life skills and improve children in all areas of their development. According to Clements (2004), he states that outdoor play allows children to explore their local neighborhood, learn the rules of everyday life and discover the different textures and elements in the world. When children spend most of their childhood time playing or working in natural settings, they will learn to handle challenges, solve problems and are able to have greater respect for themselves, for others, and for the environment. Looking at children’s perspectives, when the environment is clean and safe, learning can take place comfortably. Children should be given the priority to experience stimulating environment where all their needs are taken
Finally, I work hard to create an indoor and outdoor environment that enriches, challenges, and encourages children to develop interests, connect with each other, have alone time, and learn through play. I accomplish this goal by continually assessing my play materials, adding new things, gauging my children’s interests and needs, and adjusting my environment accordingly.
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At Children’s Discovery Center the daycare is split into two buildings, one building is for the children in pre-school and the second building is for infants to three year olds getting ready to start pre- school. The classroom I observe is for children 18 months to 28 months. They are about fourteen children in the class with two teachers. The way the class is set up the younger students and their two teachers share one classroom, but the teachers and their toddlers are not in the same room until lunch time and nap time. The classroom has a kitchen, reading area, girls and boys bathroom, activity tables and there is a connecting room for the children to have bible time and free play. The discovery center has three separate playgrounds for the
My interviewee is a close friend of mine, she is a Curtin university student, as well as working at a daycare center. Her job involves working with children from 0-3 years of age. She provides care and guidance for children as well as teaching kids primary and essential knowledge from young age. She deals with all types of children and she observes the children’s behaviors on daily basis, as this is a important role for her job. In the past she has spent time observing specifically autistic children, she explained how fascinating she found autistic children, and that she would like to learn more about their condition. She explained how often she has to try harder to explain simple things to autistic children, by repeating herself several times, showing him/her examples of her instructions. She also told me how as soon as autistic children understand her instruction, follow her rules to the best of their ability, often doing an excellent job. She said that its as almost if these children are adults, for example when she tells children “it is home time, time to put away all the toys”. Autistic children put the toys exactly where they got them from often in an organized manner. After that I asked her if she is interested in knowing more about autism. she explained her knowledge of autism is limited and that she would like to know why autistic children, have an excellent performance in areas such as, music, art, math and perform poorly in other areas such as,
As an early childhood professional, I believe that children learn best through play. The environment set up is crucial to the success of the children’s learning. There must be adequate space set up in a visually appealing manner meant to and peak the children’s interest and encourage exploration. There should be a variety of materials provided that are developmentally appropriate and safe as well as creatively stimulating. The classroom should be set up as a “yes” environment where children are encouraged to touch and explore all items at their level. All materials should be safe, clean, and able to be manipulated by the children. The classroom should be divided into different areas based on the interests and skills of the children and materials in these areas should be rotated on a regular basis to keep the
Daycare has turn into a debate for the reason there are two sides to every debate and then there is what some would call the middle. There are advantages and disadvantages when it comes to leaving one’s child in the care of another individual and many aspects play an acting role and the list is unlimited when comes to what all it involves. Although a very large number of parents require the assistances of childcare facilities’, because of the economy, or financial needs that only their jobs can fulfill, single parents and more individuals going back to college, or the career goals that one as sat for themselves not only for the sake of their children, but a better future for the family. For the most part child psychiatrists consider the ideal growing environment for an infant in the home with the family. For The vernacular used and the amount of time-spent teaching, the child day-to-day skills are more essential and the setting comes into play as well.
I am an education major and I want to own my own daycare one day. I am going to use a daycare to demonstrate the different organelles. Golgi apparatus is like the cook in a daycare. The cook and the Golgi apparatus both transfers proteins. Ribosomes are like food because ribosomes proved protein to that cell just like how food give humans protein. The Cytoplasm is like the building of the daycare. The Cytoplasm holds all of the objects in the cell, and the building holds everything in the daycare together. The Nucleus is like an office because, the nucleus hold all of the information just like an office. The Cell Membrane is like an outlet cover it stop the kids from putting their hands inside of the outlets It is away the teachers can know
The importance of the environment lies in the belief that children can best create meaning and make sense of their world through environments which support complex, varied, sustained, and changing relationships between people, the world of experience, ideas and the many ways of expressing ideas. The pre-schools tend to be filled with indoor plants and vines, and awash with natural light. Classrooms open to a central piazza, kitchens are open to view and access to the surrounding community is assured through wall sized windows, courtyards, and doors to the outside in each classroom.
In conclusion, I decided to do this particular topic because of personal experience. I observed a daycare facility; the teacher had a child that was not able to digest food items like a typical child. The child was three years old. She was feeding in a feeding tube. The teacher in the class room was not able to work the machine so the child can eat. All the children in the center finished eating besides the child. The teacher had to go to classroom to classroom to receive
A fulfilling place to raise your knowledge and understanding of pre-school children and infants is a daycare. Observing a daycare gives you an insight at how these toddlers behave and act when going through the many different situations in the daycare. North West Childcare Centre is one of many daycares that believes in giving children a safe and encouraging environment to grow up in with nurturing staff, that get s the boys and girls prepared for pre-school both mentally and academically. North West Childcare Centre openly welcomes all infants and toddlers from the age of 12 months to five years. The children are divided into three different classroom based on age.
In the earlier years of a child’s life it’s crucial that the child gets the care and attention they need. For children to receive the best care and attention it’s best they stay home with their parents because it’s more influential on their development. However, in order to make a living parents need to re-enter the work force which then leaves them with the decision of which care would be best. This being said, most parents are left with the only option of sending their child to daycare. Being that the parents are left with such option the most important factor they need to take into consideration is the quality of the daycare not price or convenience. Even though daycare may be convenient and cheap the quality could negatively affect