Types of Programs
Principles & Theories
Environment
Meals and Snacks
Children's Health
100
This program is part of most public and many private school systems with children ranging 5-6 years old.
What is Kindergarten?
100
Improvements of skills using the large muscles in the legs and arms?
What is Gross-Motor Development?
100
The arrangement of a classroom centers around this.
What is the traffic pattern?
100
A condition which the body cannot properly control the level of sugar in the blood.
What is diabetes?
100
Most state licensing rules and regulations require these types of drills.
What are fire and disaster drills?
200
A program where child care is provided in a private home with a small number of children.
What are Family Child Care Homes?
200
Billions of specialized nerve cells in the brain.
What are Neurons?
200
This room should contain a locked storage space for personal belongings.
What is a staff room?
200
This vitamin keeps gums and tissues healthy, helps heals wounds and broken bones, and helps body fight infection.
What is Vitamin C?
200
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?
300
This program offers full-day care, often open early mornings and evenings?
What are Child Care Centers?
300
Refers to processes people use to gain knowledge. Language and thought are a result of this development.
What is Cognitive Development?
300
Gross motor, music, woodworking, block building, and dramatic play would fall under this area of the room.
What is the active, dry area?
300
The body's negative reaction to a particular substance?
What is an allergy?
300
This law states that child's records cannot be given to anyone other than parents without the parents' permission.
What is a privacy law?
400
A program that overcomes the negative effects of poverty on young children? (This program mainly provides child care and education for 3 to 5 year olds from low income families)
What is Head Start?
400
Refers to change or growth that occurs in children.
What is Development?
400
Blocks, puzzles, plastic building pieces, parquetry blocks, stringing beads, lotto boards, sewing cards, and color cubes would fall into this area of the room.
What is the small manipulative area?
400
A lack of proper nutrients in the diet.
What is malnutrition?
400
Studies show that children under 5 years of age account for almost 2/3 of this each year?
What is poisonings?
500
A program that lets children handle and move materials and allowed children to "learn how to learn?"
What are Montessori Schools?
500
Children from ages one up to the 3rd birthday.
What is a toddler?
500
Art and eating would fall under this area of the room.
What is the wet, quiet area?
500
A child age 3-5 should have this many cups of Milk/Dairy every day.
What is 3 cups?
500
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.
What are fire extinguishers?