Language and Communication
A 5-year-old child can recognize humor in simple jokes and makes jokes and riddles. True or False?
True
Trampoline jumping poses a high risk of injury for children. Name two serious injuries that could occur:
Head injury & spinal cord injury.
What are some social emotional activities for preschoolers:
Read, sing, play a monster emotions matching game, make emotion masks, start each day with a check-in, use strategy cards, put together a calm-down kit.
A practice that stimulates physical, social, emotional, and cognitive development in children:
Play.
What is a positive and negative effect of insufficient sleep on young children?
Positive: improves memory & increase of grey matter.
Negative: children more likely to experience behavior and cognitive problems.
Growing up in a literacy rich environment increases word exposure and vocabulary size. True or false?
True.
How do you prevent suffocation?
Select toy boxes with removable lids or use open containers to prevent children from being trapped by a fallen top.
Remove lids from large plastic storage bins.
How do you teach children social and emotional skills?
Care about friends and show interesting in others & listen and follow directions.
A teaching strategy that requires little higher order thinking and isn't developmentally appropriate in preschool is...
Worksheets!
At what age can the child's adult height be predicted?
Age 3.
A 5-year-old can have a vocabulary of how many words?
1500 words.
Name 3 ways you can educate pre-schoolers about personal safety:
Teach their full name, tell them what to do if approached by a stranger, teach how to dial 911 and it's purpose.
What are the 5 components of social-emotional learning?
1. self-awareness
2. self-management
3. responsible decision making
4. social awareness
5. relationship skills
A child development theorist who believed that language needed to be learned through social interaction was:
Vygotsky.
Define tripod grasp. What age does this typically begin to be seen in children?
A hand position whereby an object, such as a pencil, is held between the thumb and first and second fingers. Usually begins at 3-years-old.