Early Learning
The document is a developmental tool used by Early Child Year Educators to measure children's learning and development.
What is Early Learning for Every Child Today?
This is a child centered activity that engages a young child and promotes learning.
What is Play?
This is the ability to manage stress & the energy expended by the stressors with the ability to recover.
What is Self Regulation?
The soft spots on a baby's head.
What is a Fontanel?
Sometimes known as the Sacred Hoop, it has been used by generations of various Native American tribes and represents four directions and four quadrants of life.
What is the Medicine Wheel?
This is the understanding of how learning takes place.
What is Pedgogy?
The genetic material parents pass onto their children.
What are genes?
This term is often confused with Self- Regulation.
What is Self-Control?
The soft hair which falls out in the first few weeks.
What is Lanugo?
The historical action or process of establishing control over the Indigenous people.
What is colonization?
These are the 5 domains used in the ELECT document.
What is Social, Emotional, Language & Literacy, Cognitive and Physical
The on-going process of watching, listening and being attuned to children's behavior, emotions, interests, abilities & patterns of development.
What is observation?
These are nutrients for the brain.
What are relationships?
Touching a newborn on the cheek and baby turns head to find breast.
Native Americans use these 4 traditional medicines in their ceremonies.
What is sage, tobacco, cedar, and sweetgrass?
This Comprehensive Assessment tool measures both environmental provisions and teacher-child interactions.
What is Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale?
Connections formed through experiences is one of the building blocks of the brain.
What is synapses?
This is the study of how the environment & the experiences kids have can actually change the way the brains get wired.
What is epigenetics?
It provides an early assessment of newborn's general health.
What is the Apgar Scale?
This commission was officially established on June 2, 2008 with the purpose of documenting the history and lasting impacts of the CANADIAN INDIAN REDSIDENTIAL SCHOOL systems on Indigeous students and their families.
What is the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)?
These are the four foundations of HDLH.
What is Belonging, Well-Being, Engagement, Expression?
John Bowlby presented the first formal theory that involves a responsiveness to an infant.
What is Attachment theory?
These are the 5 domains in Dr. Shankers' Self-Regulation Framework
What is Biological, Emotional, Cognitive, Social & Prosocial?
When the outer sole of the foot is stroked and the toes are spread.
What is the Babinski Reflex?
These values represent the Native American 7 Grandfather Teachings.
What are Love, Humility, Respect, Truth, Honesty, Wisdom, and Knowledge?