Music and Movement   Discuss your own musical abilities and comfort levels with song, dance, and creative movement. Describe your experiences with young children and music. Why is it important that we include these activities in classrooms? How would you go about engaging young children in music and movement? 

Dramatic Play   Search the web and find a video where children are learning in the dramatic play center (sometimes called the pretend center); do not use the video from this week’s readings and resources. For this week’s post, please complete the following:   1. Share your video by pasting the link to your video […]

Drawing Stages   Collect drawings by two different children who are ages 3-5.  Compare each drawing to the drawing stages provided.  Please identify each child’s stage of drawing.   Explain the next activity you will provide to scaffold each child to the next level.  Attach images of the drawings.

Introductions and Creativity Observation   This is a two-part discussion forum. Please respond to both parts.   1.  Introduce yourself and include information you would like to share such as where you live, your experiences with young children (birth to age 8), and your future goals.   2. Respond to the following:     What is […]

Management Action Plan (MAP): Part 4 To complete Part 4 of your MAP, analyze and prioritize the key action steps from Part 3. Once you have reviewed your list of possible actions, think about and address the issues below.   What steps are absolutely necessary and are most likely to be effective in achieving your […]

Activity Plan: Language and Literacy   As part of this class, you will write activity plans using the templates provided in Course Information.   Compose your Activity Plan by following the Activity Plan Template. Be sure that your plan is developmentally appropriate, intentional in design and that it meets the needs of all learners.   […]

Curriculum Web What is a Curriculum Web?   A curriculum web is one of many ways to create lesson plans for your early childhood classroom. A curriculum web does not look like a traditional lesson plan (visually), but instead takes the interests and ideas of the children into account. Keep in mind, curriculum webs are […]

Activity Plan: Music and Movement   As part of this class, you will write activity plans using the templates provided in Course Information.   Compose your Activity Plan by following the Activity Plan Template. Be sure that your plan is developmentally appropriate, intentional in design and that it meets the needs of all learners.   […]

As part of this class, you will write activity plans using the templates provided in Course Information.   Compose your Activity Plan by following the Activity Plan Template. Be sure that your plan is developmentally appropriate, intentional in design and that it meets the needs of all learners.   The topic of this plan is […]

Creative Play Observation and Reflection   Visit an early childhood program and observe and reflect on the types of creative play activities children enjoy, what they become engaged in and how to plan for emergent learning situations that are based on developmentally appropriate practice.  Relate your responses to Parten’s play stages.  Discuss the stages of […]