Physical Development
What are the two types of motor developments?
Gross Motor Development and Fine Motor Development
What is an example of pro-social behavior?
Cooperating, Resolving conflicts, following rules, helping others
True or False: Self- Regulation skills should only be taught to students that have behavioral issues.
False
This term refers to students demonstrating different language usage in the classroom and on the playground.
What is style-shifting?
______ with the first grade teachers is key!
Communication
What is an example of a fine motor skills that kindergarten students demonstrate?
Zipping, Buttoning, Pouring, Dressing, Cutting, Tracing, Drawing
True or False: Kindergartners who are rejected by peers are more likely to have long-term problems, including difficulty forming friendships and academics.
True
When adults are warm, encourage children's emotional expressiveness and show sensitive concern for their feelings, children are more likely to react how?
Sympathetic/ Concerned. In a concerned way to the distress of others; easier to relate to other's emotions.
On average, how many words is a 6-year-old's vocabulary?
10,000 words
This approach for transitions and learning focuses on the student's abilities and skills to determine readiness to move up.
What is the Skills only approach?
What is an example of a gross motor skill that kindergarten students demonstrate?
Tossing, Throwing, Kicking, Jumping, Changing Directions, Running, Rolling
This ability is central to a child's learning development.
What is the ability to form and sustain relationships with others?
This term refers to parents holding their children out of kindergarten until they are older so they can cope with emotional, academic, and physical demands of school.
What is Red-Shirting?
What is one way to promote language and literacy development for all students?
Exposing children to hearing books, having a variety of books available, songs and rhymes, having others in the community communicate and read.
This transitional and learning approach considers all interconnected factors that influence development and learning.
What is the Ecological (Developmental) Approach?
How do children show control over the physical task of writing?
Gripping a pencil, Holding a crayon, isolating their hands to write, etc.
Kindergarten students develop their emerging self-concept in part by ___________.
Comparing themselves to peers
True or False: Relationships are the context that supports children’s internalization of the rules and values in their world.
True
This term refers to the awareness that Kindergarten students understand the parts of a book, the print on the pages, how print represents words that are read, the purposes of print such as letters, signs and stories.
What is book and print awareness?
This term relates to students having two different "cultures," school life and home life.
What is the Home-School Connection?
How do Kindergarten students demonstrate stability while performing gross motor tasks?
Run smoothly, change directions easily
Children who exhibit positive behaviors (cooperation, conflict resolution) tend to have _______ (better/worse) overall social skills and __________ (more/less) friends.
better, more
True or False: Kindergarten students do not yet notice when an adult likes or dislikes particular children.
False- teachers must be careful to show a positive attitude to all children.
This term refers to the awareness that Kindergarten students deepen their understanding of the sounds words and individual letters make. This is a key principle to understanding the alphabet.
What is phonological awareness?
This refers to a situation where expectations for first grade are drastically different and more advanced than kindergarten, making a harder moving-up transition fro students.
What is "Hitting the Wall?"