Kindergarten

The authors claim that the United States has the highest achievement gaps between high and low socioeconomic students in the world, and say that the majority of the gap is created during the years leading up to kindergarten. (Bradbury, p.111) The United States has a gap of 1 standard deviation in language, reading and math skills at age five between the highest and lowest socioeconomic students, the highest of any other comparable country. (Bradbury, p. 71) This gap…

7 year old girl who attends a Kindergarten 2, which is under supervision of a Christian church. This preschool has three classes, one for preschool, the others for kindergarten 1 and kindergarten 2, the children there from age 3 to 5 years old. There are three main teachers and the principal of the school and there are about 26 students in the three classes. I observed K about one hour, 20 minutes in the reading class with the other two children, a boy in kindergarten 1 and a girl from…

“My love and passion for educating the youth all started with a single high school course,” says a current Kinder Care teacher, Candace C. Pinckney. At Thornwood, the high school Candace attended back in 2007, they provided a Child Development course. In the class, first semester, the students learn the required book material including; essentials and methods to properly care for children at various ages, children’s tendencies/ common personalities at certain ages, the milestones and development…

are the foundation that frames children’s growth, development and learning. All children have the right to an education and to an environment in which they are able to reach their full potential in life. Children at the age of five or six attend kindergarten, the first class that starts off the educational path in life. However, nowadays the earlier their education starts the better chance children have to succeed and meet the high standards set in place by our society. Therefore, the proportion…

o As an ECE birth-5 major, I want to work as a preschool or kindergarten teacher. The ages of these children can range of 3-5 years of age. During this time, children are on Jean Piaget’s pre-operation stage. At this stage, the children a beginning to play symbolically as well as parallel to other children. At this age, the children are also very egocentric. This means that they only believe in their taught and can’t take on more than one concept at a time.  What developmental themes do…

Regardless of whether to send your kid to kid day consideration is a hard decision for some guardians to make. Obviously you need to invest however much energy with your youngster as could be expected before they enter kindergarten, yet it can bring about enthusiastic anxiety to go from being one-on-one with a guardian's full focus to suddenly being torn far from the home five days a week. An awesome approach to diminish school incited detachment tension for both of you is to begin sending your…

Education is something that is key to individual’s success. Like most things in life, the earlier you start, the chance of success is greater. When children start their education early, the result is a better academic success. To ensure that success, each child should be able to be enrolled in an early education program, so give them a boost. This is a major issue being debated; whether the government should fund Pre-K for the young students of the United States. Currently, all families have…

The innocence of a Children’s Actions Physical Description of Child To begin, I observe a five-year-old preschooler. She is in Kindergarten, but this is not her first year of school she has been going to school since the age of three. She began at a daycare than to preschool and now she is in Kindergarten. Her name is Jennifer Dolores Munoz, her Birthday is on August 17 and she was born in the year of 2011. She is five years of age and sixty-three months years old. She weighs 46 pounds and is 56…

prepared to enter kindergarten. My parents working in the fields, worked long and hard to be able to live a healthy lifestyle. My parents although no matter how tired they were, always explained how receiving an education is important; in order to not work in the fields as they did. Entering kindergarten I was behind, neither was I able to speak English correctly but lacked in reading and writing. As a child, I felt humiliated not being able to understand. Then my kindergarten teacher,…

enrolled in high-quality ECE programs showed a dramatic in intellectual and language learning skills. It has been shown that these are two specific areas that predict readiness for kindergarten. The benefits of preschool are particulary important for chidren who come from low-income families. These children tend to start kindergarten up to a year behind their peers and struggle with reading and language skills. This struggle will manifest itself throught the child’s entire school…