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Responses of young children to integration of senses from their world around them!

Nancy Kaczrowski, MS-ECEnancy.kaczrowski@hotmail.com

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to know how a young child's brain is filled with interwoven feelings, actions

to connect thoughts and how this impacts social/emotional development

to understand the wiring that is continually happening in a child's brain

to develop practical and enjoyable techniques

to describe how young children react to sensations and how they integrate responses

Workshop Objectives

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What we notice~~types of minds:

1) keen observer2) things that appeal3) remarkable concentration4) ways out

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Prefrontal cortex of brainIntellectual skills and social/emotional

capabilities

Driven by goalsUsed for managingPulls together feelings and thinkingAllows us to reflect, analyze, plan, evaluate

Executive Function

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Classic studyUncover importance of self controlChoice one marshmallow now or two laterWait and focus and self controlInitial response to larger goals and greater

success

Marshmallow Test

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Towel folding

Reflect backwards Scaffold forwards

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….to know how a young child's brain is filled with interwoven feelings, actions

Guiding questions:• Culture• Individual needs• 5 W & H

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….to connect thoughts and how this impacts social/emotional developmentAuthoritarian

◦ Jaw breakerPermissive

◦GumdropsAuthoritative

◦Licorice

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….to understand the wiring that is continually happening in a child's brainC: call attention to the behaviorA: ask how the child feeling and doingR: recognize consequences of actionsE: express feeling for behavior

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….to develop practical and enjoyable techniques

Packaging the learning

• Motivate• Transfer• Style• Comfort

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….to describe how young children react to sensations and how they integrate responses Active learning is:DiscoveryDelightDeterminationDiscipline

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Choices!

As we gain self awareness we employ behaviors and attitudes and believe in self that we adopt to master lessons and skills becoming successful lifelong learners being capable and loveable and competent.

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You Rock!!

Fun Zone: •Stay in moment: comfort and focus•Explore: something never done before, use 5 senses•Be creative, something new•Ask questions: learn from experts•Soup: hug from inside out!

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NAEYC: July 2011 Vol. 66 No. 4PLAY: Stuart Brown MDCards on the Table: Agatha ChristieThe Out of Sync Child: Carol S KranowitzLast Child in the Woods: Richard Louv

Research Findings

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Did you know that children begin their path to reading as babies when they hear and respond to the sound of a human voice?

Listening, talking, reading, and writing are allparts of early literacy learning—and they’re all connected.

Young children learn about literacy througheveryday things at home.

Young Children and Literacy

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1. Talk and listen 2. Read aloud together 3. Explore the sounds of language 4. Offer alphabet activities 5. Support budding readers and writers as they test their new skills 6. Offer books throughout your home and even outdoors 7. Support budding writers with lots of materials 8. Explain how books and print work 9. Build a home book collection

Ways to encourage literacy at home