History
The year Kid's Creek Early Care & Education first open
What is 1977
Always put your baby on their back. Make sure the sleep surface is firm and flat, with no gaps where the baby can get trapped. Keep soft loose bedding or other objects well away from the baby. Dress the baby so they do not overheat.
What are Infancy Safe Sleep Guidelines?
Production of _____ lags behind comprehension (toddlers can understand more words than are in their speaking vocabulary.)
What is speech?
True or False: Children can often recite the alphabet long before they can identify a single letter.
What is true?
Children in the early childhood years (birth through 3rd grade) learn best through
a. worksheets
b. repeating after the teacher
c. hands-on learning
What is c. hands on learning?
True or False: Most states require that preschool teachers, whether employed by private or public schools, be certified.
What is false?
Of all the senses, _______ is the last developed at birth.
What is vision?
Skilled use of one's hand
What is dexterity?
Preschoolers recognize which letters first?
a. A, B, C
b. The letters in their own name
c. Letters that are easy shapes to remember (O, S, L)
What is b. the letters in their own name?
Research shows that play
a. has no educational value
b. has value for a child’s social development but not for academic development
c. has value for a child’s overall development
What is c. has value for a child's overall development?
A person who promotes child development, builds family and community relationships, observes and documents students needs, and used content knowledge to build meaningful curriculum.
What is an Early Childhood Professional?
Babies babble in
a. their home language
b. any language they hear
c. both a and b
c. both a and b
The process of collecting information about children's development, learning, health, behavior, academic progress, need for special services, and attainment in order to make decisions.
What is Assessment?
Can use feeding utensils, stack building blocks, and place pegs in pegboards
What are fine motor skills?
The acronym DAP stands for..?
What is Developmentally Appropriate Practices.
The Swiss psychologist who believed that children continue to develop as they grow, also known as The Cognitive Development Theory.
Who is Jean Piaget?
The first primary color babies can see.
What is red?
A type of play in which children play in the same room, but not with one another.
What is solitary play?
A term that refers to children's preparedness for Kindergarten, making sure they have the knowledge and abilities necessary for success.
What is School Readiness?
Developmentally Appropriate Practice takes into consideration
a) age appropriateness
b) individual appropriateness
c) cultural appropriateness
d) all of the above
What is d) all of the above
This person was the first female physician in Italy and is well known for her child care program. Today her approach to early childhood education continues to be popular throughout the world.
Who is Maria Montessori?
What are the 4 domains of development in Early Childhood Education?
What is physical, social/emotional/, cognitive, and language development?
love, support, encouragement and validation
What is building a child's self esteem?
According to Piaget, preschoolers are in what stage of cognitive development?
What is preoperational?
Early childhood education covers birth through
a. kindergarten
b. 3rd grade
c. preschool
What is b. 3rd grade?