Forest kindergarten

socioeconomic status and pre-K involvement both clearly correlate to kindergarten readiness in urban areas and particularly within Memphis, there are other, larger urban processes at work within the setting of urban Memphis. One of these processes is urban psychology. Urban psychology relates the interactions of the people to their surroundings and how these interactions shape the children. These surroundings for a pre-kindergarten child can include the home environment, which has already been…

Positive and negative childhood memories On November 5, 1996 I was born in Punjab, which is located on the rich side of India. My parents were very excited and happy to have a baby girl as their first child. My dad told our relatives that “ I am very lucky to have a baby girl in my house” and he gifted everyone with a box of Indian sweets. Once I was released from the hospital and we all went to the Sikh temple to get an alphabet letter out of the bible which would be the first letter of…

Successful kindergarten transition means adjusting to a whole new structured environment on top of a more academically rigorous curriculum. A number of teachers reported that at least half of their children had trouble in the first few months of kindergarten in a number of different areas (Robinson & Diamond, 2014). Kindergarten readiness has changed since the national push for public prekindergarten programs throughout the nation (Hatcher, Nuner & Paulsel, 2012). There is a now a greater push…

It is five in the morning, and John parents are once again, moving around the house organizing the items around the house. Once again, it is time to move again. At the age of six, it was john’s third move, the third different state he would reluctantly have to grow up in. Moreover, this was the fifth friend that I would not be able to play flag football with, due to another military move due to my friend’s mom or dad receiving order to transfer to another state. As we pretended to stay asleep we…

I had the privilege of spending an afternoon at Ensworth Academy and observe the lower school art classes this September. Ensworth is a private K-12 school in the Belle Meade area of Nashville, with campus split amongst two properties. Lower and Middle School reside on one plot of land, while the Upper School is closer to a main road. The afternoon I spent with one of the four art teachers, Ms. Pickle, allowed me insight into how to effectively manage a first grade class with minimal madness.…

system with their own “virtual school bag” (Hedges. 2011), a metaphor for a wealth of prior knowledge they have garnered, through their before school educational experiences. When a multi-generational Australian child is preparing to move up from Kindergarten to Primary School, they will have several months of gentle transitioning, preparing them for this new stage in their life’s journey. They will have spent time, learning how to behave in a socially acceptable manner, be well versed in…

The National Education Association site in general does a good job of bringing together a large variety of informational statistics regarding reading and literacy in the United States. The National Education Association focuses on the tangible aspects of reading and illiteracy in the United States. Each claim is easy to understand and easy to devise an in-home solution to help the individual children to become better readers. Not only is the National Education Association a widely…

My virtual Child - Victor, is six years old now. Comparing his shy nature when he was at age of three, his personality become a somewhat outgoing child. His development of various skills meets with the standard of a preschooler. From his 2 years old to now, his development in different aspects have a great changes. Physical: Victor is not energies boy, he like quiet activities and not interest in sports or exercising. Since he 6 years old, his memory is getting better, he can play…

Childhood development is such an intriguing topic, no two children are the same, so no two children will grow or develop the same making every case different. It amazes me at the similarities and differences in each child, similarities in both boys and girls. In my group setting I saw about 65-75 kids mixed of boys and girls. Within the first fifteen minutes of each class I was able to pick out what students were at the top of the classes, what students were at the bottom of classes, and who was…

Margaret Wente’s globe and mail article on the plight of “today’s children being overly protected from failure that they’ll never be able to handle the stresses of the adult world” is a highly opinionated and suspect take on how “reality will soon bite” (par. 22) a seemingly oblivious and obnoxious generation composed of “snowflake children” (par. 23), due to “overprotective” (par. 7) and “rescuing” (par. 8) parents who are “stuck to them like glue” (par. 16). While Wente does make an…