February Additional Blog

February! This month, we celebrated Valentine's Day and all our friends at the Y gave out treats. Each of the kids had made a mailbox (with a shoe box) to hold all their treats. Since the kids get really hyper with sugar, we had to hold their mailboxes on a top self until their parents came to pick them up.

(Gifts from my mentor and other teachers)

I haven't been going to mentorship much this month, but I know that the theme for most of our arts and crafts was music. I cut out musical notes for the kids to glue on their music sheets and they made musical instruments (2D ones).

Blog 16: Answer 2

1.  What is your EQ?

What is the most effective strategy for a preschool teacher to use to develop their students' social and emotional development?

2.  What is your first answer? (In complete thesis statement format)

The most effective strategy to use to develop a preschoolers' social-emotional development is to teach them Emotional self-regulation, which will help children understand, identify, and manage their own and others feelings.

3.  What is your second answer? (In complete thesis statement format)

The most effective strategy to use to develop a preschoolers' social-emotional development is to teach them through play so they have hands on experience with their emotions and others emotions.

4.  List three reasons your answer is true with a real-world application for each.

1.  Children love to play

2. In play, children have to communicate to get a turn with a toy or to join the game.

3. Children could learn how to manage their emotions with roleplay.

5.  What printed source best supports your answer?

"Play: The Pathway From Theory to Practice" by Sandra Heidemann and Debbie Hewitt [book]

"Support Social and Emotional Development - Through Play!" by Zrinka Peters [article]

6.  What other source supports your answer?

My interview 3.

7.  Tie this together with a  concluding thought.

Because children always think about play, why not make learning fun by teaching them about emotions through play.

Blog 15: Independent Component 2 Approval

1.  Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.

I plan on continuing on coming up with activities to do with the children and asking my mentor about training days. I’ll look online for project activities (arts and crafts), song activities (dancing), or role-playing.

2.  Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.

I will suggest activities to my mentor, prepare them, and explain how to make it to the children. I will take pictures of the completed projects of my students’ or make my own.

3.  Explain how this component will help you explore your topic in more depth.

This will help me see if my answer 2 to my essential question, which is to have children engage in play to have hands on experience with emotions, is an effective strategy.

4.  Post a log in your Senior Project Hours link and label it "Independent Component 2" log.

Sabrina's Senior Project Hours

Blog 14: Independent Component 1

• • LITERAL
  (a)  I, Sabrina Dalan, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 35 hours and 10 minutes of work.
  (b) My mentor, Jenny Zymora, suggested sites like Pintrest or other blogs that preschool teachers have to come up with fun activities.
  (c) Sabrina's Senior Project Hours
  (d) Most of the time I would be in the classroom, I would help prepare the activities of suggest more activities we could do. I always assisted the children with doing the activities and helping them get the materials they needed. I supervised them when they had scissors and reminded them to put on their aprons when they were painting. I observe how the children interacted with each other.
  • INTERPRETIVE
  This component has been really significant to me because I learned and understand the importance of preschool. It's not just arts and crafts, nap time or playtime. It does not only prepare you for the academic learning such as writing your name, counting, or learning the alphabet. It prepares you for life. Preschool teachers help you develop many life skills.
  
  
  
  
  
   
   
  
  
  
   
  
   
  
  
  
  
  
  
  • APPLIED
  How did the component help you understand the foundation of your topic better?  Please include specific examples to illustrate this.
  The component helped me understand that the children's fine motor, sensory, social, and emotional development are being developed. I know one of the preschool teachers explained to me how preschool is the foundation of a child's success in school. Without preschool, a child may enter kindergarten without the proper skills needed in life. The activities that we do really practice these certain skills.