My supports

Having supporters around us are very vital and important part in our lives.  I really consider myself very lucky to have many people around me who always offer their help and share me in my life. My husband is the most helpful person in my life, without him my life would be meaningless and bored. He would constantly encourage me to pursue my dreams and never give up. He is a great supporter that he would assist me in getting my entire house chore done; he is cooking, cleaning the house, taking care of my two wonderful kids, and providing me with any type of support that I may need. IF I feel down and on the edge of giving up to all the difficulties that I might faced, he would be there to provide me with the advice  that I need, and the love that would keep me going on. I never imagine my life without him; I feel that I would never realizing my dreams, and achieving my goals if he was not in my life. He is always my role model, before we get married; he went through very hard times that not anyone instead of him would ever reach to what he accomplished right now. Just by remembering how he was strong to stand against all the difficulties that he faced, make me feel that I have to persist in my life and never surrender to anything that would take me down.

The second supporter in my life is my children. My son and my daughter make me smile even when I am very tired and hopeless. They always remind me that I have to do the best for them and be the real model that they would like to be when they grow up. I always keep in my mind that I have to work hard and get my master to provide them with the best environment and education that are necessary for them to flourish and develop.

My father and my siblings are always providing me with care, love, help, and anything that would make me successful, and happy in my life. Even though they are not close to me since they are back home, but I feel they are always there to offer me their help. My father frequently calls me to make sure that I am on the right path; he always encourages, and motivates me to be the person that he would be proud. He constantly supports me spiritually, and emotionally to assist me feeling that he is with in spite of distances. My 11 sibling always make me laugh, and help me to forget for a while the burden of life. They would always telling me that there is nothing in the life deserve to be sad and hopeless along way, being optimistic in every step  that I undertook  whether it was hard or easy , life would keep on . They always ready to listen to my problems by providing me with the advice that would support me to find way to overcome life’s challenges.

Having support people make our lives easy and meaningful. My husband plays a huge role in motivating and encouraging me to fulfill my dreams; he always makes me feel loved, confident, and important. My children always make me feel happy and life worth to live to the fullest. My father always supports me spiritually and emotionally, trying to do his best to   alleviating my stress that I may have for being away from him. My siblings are always there to help me get out from that mood of loneliness and bored that I feel sometimes for not being with them.

The major challenge that I encounter is most of time I feel lonely, bored, and isolated cause my father and my sibling are live far away from me and that really makes my life difficult ,and  sometimes hold me back to  keep going on. Every one of them plays a crucial role in upholding my spirit when I feel that I would give up all my goals. Thus, I believe that when we surrounding by people whom we can trust, our life would be very easy, and we would be able to have the power that would support us to alleviating our stress, increasing self –confidence, and decreasing – feeling of loneliness and isolation.

My connections to Play

Quotes

Play gives children a chance to practice what they are learning.

Fred Rogers

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

Plato

Play is very important part in my life since I growing up in a large family that value the role of play, and everyone was encouraged to play inside and outside the house. I was spending hours playing with dolls with my five sisters, imitating and taking different roles that helped us to keep our minds operating and looking for what is exciting and beneficial to our development. Both my mother and my father were always supporting us to enjoy our times and at the same time, they  would constantly advising and encouraging us that education is the power that would open all the opportunities in our life. When I was a child, I was also playing outdoorwith my siblings ,and my friends , having fun, learn from each others, discovers various  types of playing, and build a strong relationships with  all people in the neighborhood. Play is the source that was always keeping us active, exciting, and gives us the sense that life has a taste.

Play now has drastically changing and dowindled. Children now prefer to stay indoors, playing games on the computer, watching TV, and engrossing in electronic toys. Children are no more encourage to going outside playing with others kids because parents cannot feel safe to let their children play outdoors, and even in case that they allow their children outdoor, they keep watching them. Actually, that restricts, and exhausts many families to stay outdoor with their children cause some parents spending hours in work, and returning home very tiring. Parents now cannot really appreciate and value the benefit of play, they believe that play is a waste of time, and children should focus on developing their academic skills. Thus, I think that parents need to be more aware that playing promote social ,cognitive, and physical development, it keep their children active and also decrease the chances of obesity that many children are suffering from. Play is very beneficial to all aspect of child’s development, and parents must promote children and provide them with all the opportunities that assist them to be creative and nature their development.

Relationship Reflection

Relationships are very important to me because our success and happiness is highly depending on the relationships we build with people. I have had many important people in my life and every one of them played a vital role in shaping my personality, and   provided me with all the support and love that I need to be a successful person.

The first relationship I am going to talk about is my husband. He is very supportive and    always there to help during tough times. He is the one that constantly encouraging and pushing me to further my education. Without him, I do not think that I could continue to pursuing my degree. He never stops supporting me emotionally, spiritually, financially, and physically. When I start doing my homework, he runs right away to the kitchen, cooking and cleaning the house, helping my child in his how work and do many stuff at home, trying to do all he could to provide us with a safe and stable environment. He always makes me believe of myself by telling me that I can achieve anything if I have a strong will. In fact, my positive relationship with my husband has helped me to grow, flourish, follow my dreams, persist forward, and most importantly keep me strong to face all the challenges that might face us. My relationship with my husband has assisted me to make positive connections with other people and to learn many important and valuable lessons in my life.

My family that consists of my father, my mother, my six brothers, and five sisters has supported me in each step in my life. Every one of them has provided me with love, care and always being supportive to me. Even though, I live far away from them, they still back home, but we keep contact each other’s by cell phone or through the Skype.  They frequently call me to ask about my children, and how I am doing at school, making sure that everything goes well with me. Trying hard to let me feel as if I still live with them and no one would turn his or her back on me when I need anything from them. . My positive relationship with my family laid the foundation that helped me to have a successful relationship with my husband and with all people who surrounding me.

My two children are the most beautiful gift in my life. They are my world and pose everything to me. They always encourage me to do all the best for them and make me stand strongly against any situation that might threaten our stable life. My relationship with my children always reminds me to keep pursuing my dreams and never let anything take me down or discourage me.

This relationship helped me to be who am I today, enriched my life with different types of experiences, and shaped my character. They all supported me to keep accomplish my goals and to cultivate a positive connection with other people. I learned from them to be optimistic and look to the life with a positive view despite that sometimes I face challenges to maintain a positive connection with others due to miscommunication, which can damage the relationship and change how a person views another.

Positive relationships make life meaningful, comfortable and enjoyable. It helps us to build emotional and social bond with people and create that sense of purpose. Without positive relationships, life would be bored and meaningless.

 

“If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.”

Brain Tracy

 

If we want our children to be successful in their lives, we have to instill in their souls that they have the ability to attain and achieve any goal they might looking at. Love, care, attention, and support are great factors that assist children to never give up and accomplish whatever great in their lives.   

I would like to thank my instructor and all my colleagues for their supporting and sharing their wonderful experiences with us. It has been truly a great pleasure to work with every one, learn and benefit from each others. I wish you all the best in your lives and continue success in your journey.

I love to share this poem with all of you

Give Love To The Children

Give Love to the children need love everyday
Give love to the children Guide them on their way
Love's like a burning flame consumes all that stands in the way

Love is the only power on earth to take all the hatred away
GIVE LOVE TO THE CHILDREN set the children free
To make their own decisions then they will clearly see
Love is the sun the moon and the stars love is a golden ring

Love is the one thing the whole world desires be it beggar or king
GIVE LOVE TO THE CHILDREN youth has not long to stay
Love is a long term investment the best you will find any day

Love like the rising sun takes all the darkness away
Our children will tell their children and their children’s children will say
Give love to the children they are our crock of gold
and if perchance they ever stray they will come back to the fold

Give love to the children the children of today
Give love to the children and love will come to stay.

Elizabeth Quinn

Testing for intelligence

Testing children's intelligence is the only tools that it used almost in many countries to measure children’s intelligence. In this test, children are not measure accurately due to the fact that this assessment does not include all the domains of development, it is only include specific areas and exclude many aspect that might show more about child’s intelligence. Besides, it is not fair to determine child’ intelligence based only on this test because many children are doing great in the class and having highest scores but just hearing test or assessment that would be enough to panic them and put them under pressure. And what also important, is that Testing usually has a limit time, and most children cannot finish the assessment in time, that of course does not indicate that this child is not intelligence or his ability to learn is limited. Hence, I hope that in testing or assessment should take into consideration that every child is unique and his ability to internalize, and recall material is different from another.

In my country, which is Iraq, we assess children based on two types of test. The first one is done in the middle of the school year, and the second one at the end of the school. In both test, children are measure in different areas such as math, science, language and other aspects. During the test, children are given  two weeks or more depending on their grade, and every child is  responsible for memorizing everything he learned from the cover to cover. This form a challenge for every child since it is very hard to recall the whole material. I remember when I was in middle school; my mom was used to come with me because she knows that I will throw and get sick. Just remember these days make my feel sick. Truly, I believe this test does not give accurate information about children intelligence. This topic make me remember my friend when we were in the last year of high school, she used to be the top in the class from the elementary till almost the last year. During the test, she was very scared and under pressure, the result, she did not take a good score that might qualify her to be a doctor, which was her dream at that time.  Everyone in Iraq, consider the last year of the high school is the most important period in student’s life since it will determine his/her future later. Therefore, we believe that the person who is lucky in his life will pass the test and get the highest mark, and the one who is not lucky even if he was very intelligent, will not perform good at this test. Actually, we consider assessment is just like luck.

In conclusion, I wish that when we measure children’s intelligence, we do not need to focus on this test only; we need to take into consideration other aspect of child’s development such as emotional or social skills. I hope that every teacher should educate children that when are not doing well in the test, that does not mean they are not intelligence. Many children get frustrated when they know that their scores are very low and that may affect their performance later. I would love to make every child feel with comfort when hearing assessment or testing.

http://faculty.ccp.edu/dept/viewpoints/f03v4n1/suskie.html

Consequences of Stress on Children's Development

Poverty

In all countries, poverty presents a chronic stress for children and families that may interfere with successful adjustment to developmental tasks, including school achievement. Poverty is highly influence child’s development and educational outcomes beginning in the earliest years of life. Hence, children who raised in low-income families are at high risk of leaving school, social and behavioral problems, under nutrition, and well-being. Early Child Care Research Network has shown that children in chronically impoverished families have lower cognitive and academic performance and more behavior problems than children who are not exposed to poverty, partially explained by a lack of stimulating behaviors and home experiences among low-income families. It is very apparent that poverty impedes child’s learning, health, cognitive, social, and emotional development.

In my country which is Iraq, a third of Iraqis live in poverty due to wars, corruption, failing infrastructure, and high unemployment. All these factors are considering the main reasons that poverty spread in Iraq. However, these elements affects negatively on children’s development in all aspect. First, poverty increased the rate of literacy among children since many families cannot afford to send their children to school. Beside, many children lost their fathers during wars or sectarian tension, which causes children to work in streets or under any worker to getting money to support their families. In turns, children lost their chances to attain the good education that would open the gate of opportunities for them. Increasingly, children in Iraq continue to quitting school and deprive from the chance of learning and gaining different skills in school. Secondly, poverty also influences children’s overall health and decreases their chances to get the best treatment, and put them at risk of undernutrision. Generally, poverty in Iraq affects considerably and hindered child’s development from all aspect as cognitively, emotionally, and intellectually. . I remember my neighbor whose her husband has been killed during sectarian tension, she obliged to make her son who was 7 years old to quit school so as to work with his uncle, and support his family financially. Because she has only one boy and the rest are girls, so it is very hard for her to let any girls working outside especially they all young. However, I believe the consequences of poverty on child’s development are almost the same in any country, which definitely would undermine child’s learning, and all domains of his developments.

http://iq.one.un.org/Facts-and-Figures

http://www.investorsiraq.com/showthread.php?146376-Poverty-Rate-Unchanged-In-Iraq

Child development and public health

Breast-feeding is the topic that I decide to choose this week because breast-feeding is the best natural nutrition for the baby health and his   brain development. Since this week we talked about the effects of attachments on child’s growth, I considered that breast-feeding is also the main sources of strengthen the attachment bond and promote the emotional relationship with their mothers, in fact, it  highly enhancing behaviors of the infant and the intuitive  .Generally, Breast-feeding has a huge benefit on child’s life overall. What important first is that breast- feeding protect infants from getting sick, protect them from obesity, decreasing the chances of having allergies, and protect them from severe illness. In other words, it reduced risk of SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome) statistics reveal that every 87 death from SIDS, only 3 are breastfed. Furthermore, one large study by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences showed that children who are breastfed have a 20 percent lower risk of dying between the ages of 28 days and 1 year than children who were not breastfed, with longer breastfeeding associated with lower risk. In addition, children who are breast- feeding  are more likely to perform better at school than children who are on the  bottle feeding, basically, breast- feeding develop children’s cognitive outcomes and make them even smarter. The relationships of closeness that occur during breast-feeding tend to be very interesting experiences in child’s life that would boost his development from all aspects and affect his life in the future. However, Reports from UNICEF stated that the rates of breastfeeding in East  Asia has been dramatically declined due to the facts that women who works cannot have more time to nurse their babies, they return to work as soon as they gave birth.  According to the UNICEF report, as little as five percent of all mothers breastfeed in Thailand, while around 10 percent do so in Vietnam. In China, only 28 percent of babies are breastfed. Actually, there is a high percentage of women do not understand the long affect that would result from breast-feeding .Therefore, I believe that as educator it is also our role to educate women  about the importance of breastfeeding especially during the first sixth month of child’s life because this period of breast-feeding determine child’s health and his growth in future.

Refrences

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http://www.antaranews.com/en/news/81785/unicef-reports-declining-breastfeeding-rates-in-east-asia

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/mar/13/breastfeeding-child-brain-development

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110317141143.htm

C:\Users\AN\Desktop\How breastfeeding benefits you and your baby  BabyCenter_bc.mht

My two children birthing experience

I have two children one of them was born in my country, which is Iraq, and the second child was born In United States. When I was pregnant of my  first child, I went through a very hard time because  The situation in my country was not stable at that time,  and the violence reach its utmost, I was very stress during my pregnancy, to sleep at night is the difficult part. I was very scaring of how am going to deliver, and if the labor is going to be natural or not. My health care provider told me that my pregnancy was going well and there are no complications at all. When I completed my entire months, my doctor gave another two weeks because I did not have any contractions. Even when I passed the two weeks of my due date I did not have any sign of labour.Therfore, my doctor told me that she would induce my labor. Thus, the next day I went to the hospital, they put me under medication, and I started having contraction. Almost hour later, I was surprised by being told that I will have a surgery due to the baby position, which was not in the right way. After half an hour, I have been admitted to the surgery room and I put under complete sleeping. In fact, I cannot forget these moments and how I was very scared at that time especially the rules over there do not allowed any family member to be within the surgery room. However, when I completed the surgery, I took to another room, and I stayed in the hospital just one day in spite I had a cesarean surgery. During the whole night only one nurse came and gave me the medicine, no one check my baby health or my surgery despite the hospital was private and extremely expensive, but the care and services were very horrible.. Unfortunately, the power and the water were off at that night. I think it is a beautiful feeling to spend the night on the light of candles. In the morning, I left the hospital and for my bad luck, the elevator was out of service, and my room was in the third floor so I obliged to go down walking with the help of my sisters. I t was a horrible day for me , actually I did not enjoy these moments of having baby for the first time, I was only thinking  about who the situation went very bad . In fact, I just remember one beautiful thing during my labor that eased me, I was surrounded by all my family member whom they comfort me in this difficult journey. My two sisters stayed almost a month in my home just to take care of my baby and me because the surgery took me almost a month to recover and start walking. Thus, it is very hard to give a birth in a country where there are no services at all and no one pay attention to the importance of the human health.

My second labor was in United States and it was naturally. In spite my health provider told me from the beginning of my pregnancy that she was not sure if am going to deliver naturally because of the previous surgery, but she did all her best to help me having a natural labor. When I passed the two weeks of my due date, I also told that they would induce my labor since I did not have any contractions. When my contractions started getting very intense, I asked them to give me epidural to ease me pain, and after a couple of hours, I had my second child. I cannot imagine how it was easy and that of course due to the efforts of f my health care provider and all staff who were doing a great job and never let me alone until l gave birth. Generally, the services and care were amazing. My husband was with my in the labor room from the beginning till I deliver and that is the amazing thing that really we miss it in my country. I stayed two days in the hospital even though my labor was naturally, the nurses keep coming back and forth to make sure that both my child and me are doing well. I really enjoyed these moments of bonding with my child. If I want to mention one thing that I missed in my second delivery was the gathering of my whole family since they all back home, only my husband was with me and he is a great supporter for me during and after labor. Therefore, I think that now I do not need to make any comparison between the two labors because everything now looks very clear from my two experiences. In addition , most of  women in my country are having their labor at home because at hospitals are very expensive, and also because women are not educated enough to understanding the dangerous of having labor at home, and the consequences that might caused by having labor at home. Therefore, the mortality rate in my country is very high due to the reasons that I mentioned. Finally, I want to say that my two children are the world for me, and their smiles eased all my pain.

I would like to say thank you to all my colleagues for their support and for sharing their wonderful experiences with us, this journey has been very beneficial to everyone. Wish you all the best in your life and good luck.

Three ideals contained in the NAEYC and DEC codes of ethics that are meaningful.

To share information about each child’s education and development with families and to help them understand and appreciate the current knowledge base of the early childhood profession.

I think that parental involvement and sharing information with educator is a great way to set up a partnership. Interaction between educator and parents can help with child’s development and well-being. Besides that, involvement gives parents the opportunity to discuss their children’s interest with staff and reach to the best ways that could help their children to perform better at school. Most importantly, children have better academic and social outcomes when their parents and educators work well together.So, it is very clear that families who stay informed about their children's progress at school have higher-achieving children.

To be familiar with the knowledge base of early childhood care and education and to stay informed through continuing education and training.

This is very important to me because as professional in childhood field, we must be equipped with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions needed to work effectively with children. Therefore, we need to stay abreast of new information, latest research, ideas, issues, and new resources that would help us to support children’s learning and their development.

We shall advocate for equal access to high quality services and supports for all children and families to enhance their quality of lives.

It is our responsibility as a professional to keep advocate for children and families to get the best services and programs that would enhance children’s skills, and ensuring successful future for all children. Actually, Children thrive when their most basic needs are met and when they get support and attention from their educators and their families. As professional, we have to strive to provide children with appropriate support, provocative environment, and high quality services that will highly enable children to reach their full potential.

   

 

 COURSE RESOURCES SECTION

• National Association for the Education of Young Childrenhttp://www.naeyc.org/
  
  
• The Division for Early Childhoodhttp://www.dec-sped.org/
  
  
• Zero to Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Familieshttp://www.zerotothree.org/
  
  
• WESTEDhttp://www.wested.org/cs/we/print/docs/we/home.htm
  
  
• Harvard Education Letterhttp://www.hepg.org/hel/topic/85
  
  
• FPG Child Development Institutehttp://www.fpg.unc.edu/main/about.cfm
  
  
• Administration for Children and Families Headstart’s National Research Conferencehttp://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/opre/hsrc/
  
  
• HighScope http://www.highscope.org/
  
  
• Children’s Defense Fund http://www.childrensdefense.org/
  
  
• Center for Child Care Workforce http://www.ccw.org/
  
  
• Council for Exceptional Children http://www.cec.sped.org//AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home
  
  
• Institute for Women’s Policy Research http://www.iwpr.org/index.cfm
  
  
• National Center for Research on Early Childhood Education http://www.ncrece.org/wordpress/
  
  
• National Child Care Association http://www.nccanet.org/
  
  
• National Institute for Early Education Research http://nieer.org/
  
  
• Pre[K]Now http://www.preknow.org/
  
  
• Voices for America’s Children http://www.voices.org/
  
  
• The Erikson Institute http://www.erikson.edu/

Websites:

• World Forum Foundation http://worldforumfoundation.org/wf/wp/about-us
  This link connects you to the mission statement of this organization. Make sure to watch the video on this webpage
  
  
• World Organization for Early Childhood Education http://www.omep-usnc.org/
  Read about OMEP’s mission.
  
  
• Association for Childhood Education Internationalhttp://acei.org/about/
  Click on “Mission/Vision” and “Guiding Principles and Beliefs” and read these statements.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=4964&page=22

Learning to Think Artistically
http://www.goshen.edu/art/ed/art-ed-links.html

Starfall's Learn to Read with phonics

http://freestoriesforkids.com/

QUOTES / EXCERPT  FROM CONTRIBUTORS IN EARLY CHILDHOOD FIELD

Doug Lemov

“great art relies on the mastery and application of functional skills, learned individually through diligent study.”


You must distinguish between incompetence and defiance, responding to incompetence with teaching and defiance with consequence.

Deborah Leong

"Children need play in order to learn. Good, old-fashioned play - with an empty box or simple rag doll - provides something very important to later growth and development."

Louise Derman- Spark

“Children are still try to figure out all their different identities and try to figure out who others people are”.

Renatta M. Cooper

“Childhood leaves you ready for optimal life experiences”.

My personal Childhood  Web

My mother

She is the most influential person that I will be grateful for everything she has done for me forever..She has dedicated her life just to care about me and my siblings. Despite she was sick for a long time suffering from asthma, but I have never seen her complain or tired from helping and supporting us. She has been striving to make all our needs are met .I remember one day she got fainted and she spent the whole day in the hospital  but when she got out of hospital  ad  returned home she went right a way to kitchen to make  food for us. She always said my happiness is when I see every one of you happy. She was the person who taught me how to be a good wife and good women. She has been beside me whenever I need her. She is the most supportive person in my whole life.

My father

He is the person that I learned from him the true meaning of family and how is the family  is very important for a person to form his or her personality .He has been a very hard worker all his long life. He deprived himself from many thing, did all his best to make us be successful in our education and our life. Even though,  he is a way from me now in  another country but he never ceased from calling me and checking with me if I need  any help. Every time he was calling me, he was saying hat Iam in his prayer and his heart   all the time. I am so blessed that I have such a wonderful father.

My oldest sister

She is my companion, my friend and my dearest sister. She is the person who always pushing me to never surrender and keep going. She is very compassion and never hurt me or my siblings in a word .She has been constantly asking me how I doing in school and how was my day. She has been the one who always advice me in comfortable manner that lead me to take whatever she said into consideration. Basically I learned from her how to set a goal and who to keep fighting till you accomplish your goal. If I wanted to visit a friend or doing some stuff, she was the person that I feel happy to go with. Without her I don’t think I will be able to pursuit my degree in early childhood now. I love her so much

My oldest brother

He is the person who always makes me laughing and aiding my to  forgets the burden of life. He is very easy going person and very humorous. He is the one that always I would rely on in doing my homework especially at math .If I feel bored he would asked me to go out and having dinner outside or sometimes eating ice cream..Even when he got married and had his own family he keeps coming to see us almost every day. If anyone in my family has a problem he knows wisely who to handle it. I hope for my son to be successful in his like him.

My 6^th grade teacher  MS. Meha

She is the best teacher that I have ever met. Everyone in the class was admiring her way to explain materials and her way to make everyone enthusiastic about her lesson. She got used to give 5 minutes whenever she entered the class to warm us up and at the end of class she was telling us jokes or proverbs. When we got a bad grade, she was telling us not to give up because this is not the end of the world. Her lesson to us was to get benefit from our mistake and being able to cope with. She was very strong but at the same time very simple, she was very serious but also very humorous. I hope to be like her by making my students love the way I present materials and giving them valuable lesson in life.

Teaching Children: Five Creative Ways to Teach Colors

Posted in: Moms, Teaching

Our eyes are attracted to colorful things. Color gives life to paintings, drawings, photographs and television. If everything were in black and white there wouldn’t be much to characterize what we see. Here are five great suggestions for teaching your children about colors:

1. Teach colors through flash cards. Flash cards contain pictures of items in various colors. For example, if it was a picture of a bear it would be brown. The colors are shown as they would be in the real world. You wouldn’t want a card that shows a yellow sky or a red tree. The colors on a flash card are very bright so this is a good place to start. Say each color and let the child repeat after you.
2. Kids also learn colors through food. Foods come in a variety of vibrant colors. When your child asks for something to eat, tell them the color of what they are eating. Some varieties of foods, like apples and peppers, come in many colors, which also teaches the kids that objects can have more than one color. Use the basic names for colors like red, green, blue, and so on. Saying blue-green or orange-red may be too confusing for the kids.
3. Use paints to teach colors. Take a giant piece of poster board and lay it on a drop cloth. Let the children dip their hands in the paint and create handprints on the paper. Call out each color after they make a hand print. Wash their little hands and start over. Kids like to be messy so this teaching tool is both fun and educational.
4. Take your child outside. As you pass trees, stones, grasses and cars, identify the colors. After you have seen a wide variety of colors, point to something and ask your child what color it is. This exercise may be slow going at first because colors in nature don’t appear in the same hues as they do on flash cards or in a paint set.
5. Play games with your kids that involve colors. Use a pole with a magnet attached to a paper clip on the end of a string. Have fish or some other shapes of objects on the floor with magnets attached to them. When you call out a color, see if your child can pick up the pieces with that color. If saying the name of the color doesn’t work at first, hold up a piece of paper displaying the color you want them to fish for. Not only will they learn about colors, but also hand-to-eye coordination.

My son drew his hands when he was 3 years ,  I was very happy because I felt that he start use his imagination.

My current picture

You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.


My  favorite quote

My first week in Walden University has been a quite difficult and stressful. I felt more frustrated when I setting up my blog because it took me time to set it up. I am starting my first class feeling that I will get benefit from the expertise of my colleagues in their fields. Right now, I  am very enthusiastic to start sharing information ,ideas and concepts  with all of my class I .I hope this stage of my life being a definitive shift towards learning new instructional methods that will  boost children learning .

There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again.”

. Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.