Preschoolers
True or False:
Children can often recite the alphabet long before they can identify a single letter.
What is True?
Improvements of skills using the large muscles in the legs and arms?
What is Gross-Motor Development?
This room should contain a locked storage space for personal belongings.
What is a staff/locker room?
Most state licensing rules and regulations require these types of drills.
What are fire drills?
The keeping private of sensitive personal information involving other people.
What is Confidentiality.
True or False: Preschoolers can count the same set of objects and come up with different final counts (For Example: 4, 5, 6, or even 10) and not think anything of it.
What is True?
Development of self help, fine and gross motor skills.
What is Physical Development?
Life Science, Physical Science, and Earth and the Environment take place at this interest area?
What is the science area?
This must be conducted on every new employee, teacher, and volunteer to determine if they have had any felony or child abuse convictions.
What is a background check?
Physical and verbal actions, such as facial and body gestures, that influence behavior
What is Indirect Guidance?
Preschoolers tend to recognize which letters first:
A-The beginning of the alphabet (A, B, C).
B-The letters in their own name.
C-The letters that are the easy shapes to remember (O,S,L)
What is B-The letters in their own name.
Refers to processes people use to gain knowledge. Language and thought are a results of this development.
What is Cognitive Development?
Art, Writing, Science, Table Toys, Library, Drama, Blocks
What are Interest Areas?
Each child care center needs several of these. They are to be placed near the kitchen, in or near the classroom, and in the laundry area incase of a fire.
What is a fire extinguisher?
Changing from one activity to another and/or moving from one place to another.
What are transitions?
A 3yo girl who wants to buy a present for her mother is likely to suggest:
A-A barbie doll
B-A new kitchen appliance
C-A new tennis racket
What is A-a new barbie doll?
Refers to change or growth that occurs in children.
What is Development?
Blocks, puzzles, plastic building pieces, stringing beads, and color cubes would fall into this area of the room.
What is the table toy area?
True or False:
A healthy diet includes a protein, vegetable, fruit, carb, and dairy.
Everyday experiences such as dressing, undresing, eating, napping, toileting, and changing activities.
What are Routines?
The hear, identify, and manipulative individual sounds (phonemes) in speech.
What is phonemic awareness?
Children from ages one up to the 3rd birthday.
What is a toddler?
These are the stages of _(pick an interest area)____.
1. Scribbling and Making Marks.
2. Making shapes, outlines, designs, and symbols that have personal meanings.
3. Pictorial art that is becoming recognizable to others.
4. Realistic ART
What are the stages of art?
An illness is caused by consuming contaminated foods or beverages caused by a variety of bacteria, viruses, and parasites.
What is a Food Borne Illness?
Abuse of a child's self-concept by parents or guardians through such acts as providing insufficient love, guidance, and/or support.
What is Emotional Abuse?