Sharing Web Resources Week 6

At the beginning of the course I had chose Pre[K] Now: A campaign of Pew Center on the States ( http://www.pewstates.org/projects/pre-know28067) as my early childhood related website to study.  I had visited it a few times but there were no new information.  I look to me to be a link from Pew Charitable Trusts.

As I navigated through the link, it has a link for Overview, Research and Analysis, and Multimedia.  I view the site visited the multimedia and found video on Pre-k.  There was one video that caught my eye was Pre-k Now: Marking a Decade of Pre-K Milestones.

It does not have a e-newletter.

Establishing Professional Contacts and Expanding Resources

I was unsuccessful with establishing Professional Contact.  I have sent out email to PS Aura Rodriquez de Montes of Honduras.  And I sent an email to Dominique Hudicourt of Haiti of Step by Step Program.

Hopefully I will hear something by Wednesday.  I am looking forward to the information that they will share with me.


Part II:  Expanding Resources

I work with PreK class, so I was interesting in the Pre[K]Now: A Campaign of the Pew Center on the States.  I check out the site.  There was one statement that I agree with, which is,"to ensure that all children fulfill their potential as individuals and citizens, we must re-imagine public education as a system that begins not with Kindergarten, but with quality pre-k and builds on that foundation to raise performance in later grades."

My Support

One factor that is very supportive to me is my family.  From my husband to my , they help and encourage me in daily journey.  

My husband makes sure my girls get to school for their exta curriculum activities and  he takes my son and I to work.  Without him  I will be stressing and worrying how I would balance my mommy's duties and my work resposibilities.   I would have to find a job that would allow me to work from 9am to 4pm.  My son would have to find a job closer to home and would have to help me more with his sister.  Not having my husband would have a big impact on my life and my children's lives.  I would not have a sense of security if my husband was not here.

My children are very supportive around the house.  They help me by doing their chores.  Having my children away for the summer showed me how much I depend on them.  I realized how spoiled I have become.  My children cleans my house..  The only time I do any cleaning is when family is coming in town and even then the kids are doing the work.  ( I do my room and my bathroom).  Not only would I missed them doing the house chores,but I would missed their laughter and the arguing.  I would missed them begging to do things or to go somewhere.  My children are my strength.  I press for my goals to show them you can do anything with God on your side.

Lately I have be dreaming been paralyzed from the waist down.  I see it being a struggle for me to handle.  I can saw me depending on my family more.  I saw me being confused, questioning God, why he allow this to happened to me.  I can also see me fighting both good and bad.   The good is pushing myself to the limit so I will be able to walk.     The bad is allowing the mad and anger feelings building up so that I am yelling and disagreeing with every one.  My supporter were my family, my theropist, my church family and friends.  Being in that situation would be very difficult.  I am very activity and always on the go.  Most of the time I am doing for my self.  Having to depend on someone is not me.  If I asked you to do something and if I feel like it has been enough time to get it done, than i would do it.  there would be so many emotionally development that I would have to overcome and new culture that I would have to adapted.    Without have people around me to encourage me, I do believe I would have mental break down or fall in to depression.
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My Connection to Play

 

My parents and aunts/uncles supported me in play.  They encourage us to go outside and play.  My uncle,(my mother younger brother stayed with us),  taught me how to ride the bike.  We played relayed races.  My mom would watch us( my sister and I) play on the swing set while she hang out the clothes.  Those were the days.  Free to run and enjoy the fresh air.

Here are a few pictures of essential play items from younger years:

I feel play is both similar and different.  The kids still play some of the same games I played when I was there age.  Ring around the Rossy, Duck Duck Goose, Kickball, Basketball, Jump rope and etc. are just a few games I played.  The rules are still the same.  However technology has evolved over the years.  The graphic are better on the video games.  So  children enjoy staying inside and playing video games.

Relationship Reflection

The relationship I would like to reflect on is the one with my lord and savior Jesus Christ.  I believe that without him I could not be the person that I am today.  I hope I do not offend anyone.  I look to him for everything.  It is so important to me to a connection with God first.  I consider him to be my father, friend, counselor, healer, provider, and whatever I need him to be.  I know that he has my best interest and he will never lead me in the wrong directions.  He speaks to me through his words (bible), prayer, church, and circumstances.  I strive every day to fellowship with him.  I do face some challenges in our relationship.  I may not do what he tell me to do or sometimes I loose faith because things just did not go my way.  But God is a loving God and he will forgive me.  It is just a wonderful feeling to know that God love me and he listens to me.  God teaches me to love others as he love me.  He shows me that I should forgive just like he forgive me.  I just thought I would share that because if I did not have the relationship with God then it would be impossible for me to have relationship with others.

My relationship with my family is very important to me.  It is easy to for me to nourish my immediate family (husband and children) because I see them everyday.  I love my family but sometimes they can be a handful.  The challenges that we face in our relationship is time.  Everyone is doing something so we have to make adjustment to spend time together.  I can say that we support each other. 

The other relationship I am very proud of having is the relationship with my parents from the center I used to work.  One of my goals when I was director is to get to know the children and parents.  I would greet them as they drop off and pick up.  I would try to get know them as individuals.  For example if I saw a parent come in I would try to have a short conversation about their day.  I knew all my parents by name.  I would try to get the parents involved not only the center program but also the church activities as well.  When the church closed the center, the majority of the parents still contact me.  The parents knew that I was going to take of the children and they cared for me as much as I cared for them.  It was not an easy process.  It took time and trust.  Some I had some  culture and language challenge.  I had to step out the box and go into the community.  I had to learn their culture and try to speak slower so they could understand me. I even hired some one who speak a 2nd language.

I feel that everyone want to have a relationship with someone or things.  We want to know that someone care about us.  It makes us feel good to know that someone or things is besides through the everything.

Quotes about Children

“While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.”
― Angela Schwindt

Children are so innocent and they are so curious about everything.  They can do something to remind you how simple life is.

Assessment of child

I think children should be assessed.  Assessment is important because all the decision we will make about children when teaching and caring for them. When we assessed children, it helped measure our teaching methods.  Yes assessment help teacher identify what the child know but it purpose is much more than that. It identify children's special needs