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Mo Ervin
Paidea Parent
It is a parent’s
dream to have your child scamper into school,
and totally enjoy her school and especially her
teacher. “Tighter bond” and “Super Glue”
denote the kind of relationship that my child
has developed with each of her 3 teachers at
Paidea. This includes her first teacher from her
toddler year, her second teacher from her
preschool years, and then her third teacher in
kindergarten. The relationships with her
teachers have been a huge addition to my child’s
life.
The philosophy of the center is to focus on
emotional intelligence in the care delivered to
the children. All of the teachers at Paidea
consistently demonstrate a strong commitment to
this philosophy in caring for my own child who
we adopted when she was 18 months of age. Every
day for three years, my daughter’s preschool
teacher, Carol, held my child so that she could
give a final wave before I left the parking lot.
Carol realized that transitions were difficult
for my child, and accommodated her needs
accordingly. The wonderful thing is that now my
child transitions very well to new situations.
In addition, Carol received the Washington
County Child Care Giver of the Year Award in
2003.
Not only are the children at Paidea nurtured and
cared for as they would be at home, but the parents
receive the best parenting advice in town.
Lynn Jessen, Paidea’s Director, is awesome. My
husband and I have met with her on numerous
occasions when we have been “stuck” in
parenting. Whatever Lynn had advised us to do,
we have tried it, and it has ALWAYS worked for
us. She makes practical sense of child
development, and makes it work.
Paidea is a gem of a place for the care of
children, and I cannot recommend it enough!
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Social Relations/Initiative
- Making and expressing choices, plans and
decisions
- Solving problems encountered in play
- Taking care of one's own needs
- Expressing feelings in words
- Participating in group routines
- Being sensitive to the feelings, interests,
and needs of others
- Building relationships with children and
adults
- Creating and experiencing collaborative play
- Dealing with social conflict in constructive
ways
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Language and Literacy
- Talking with others about personally
meaningful experiences
- Describing objects, events, and relations
- Having fun with language: listening to
stories and poems, making up stories and rhymes
- Writing: drawing,
scribbling, letter-like forms, inventing
spelling, conventional forms
- Reading: reading storybooks,
signs, symbols and other print materials
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Classification
- Exploring and describing similarities,
differences and the attributes of things
- Sorting and matching
- Using and describing similarities,
differences and attributes of things
- Sorting and matching
- Using and describing something in several
different ways
- Distinguishing between "some" and "all"
- Holding more then one attribute in mind at a
time
- Describing characteristics something does
not possess or what class it does note belong to
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Seriation
- Comparing attributes: longer/shorter;
rougher/smoother, etc.
- Arranging several things one after another
in a series or pattern and describing the
relationships: big, bigger, biggest
- Fitting one ordered set of objects to
another through trial and error
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Music
- Responding to music
- Making and describing sounds
- Playing musical instruments
- Singing
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Creative Representation
- Recognizing objects by sight, sound, touch,
taste, and smell
- Imitating actions and sounds
- Relating pictures, photographs, and models
to real places and things
- Pretending and role-playing
- Making models out of clay, blocks, etc.
- Drawing and painting
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Movement
- Moving in place
- Moving from place to place
- Moving with objects
- Describing movement
- Interpreting movement directions
- Expressing creativity in movement
- Feeling and expressing beat
- Moving with others to a common beat
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Number
- Comparing number and amount to determine
"more", "less", "fewer" ,"same amount"
- Arranging two sets of objects in one-to-one
correspondence
- Counting objects as well as counting by rote
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Space
- Filling and emptying
- Fitting things together and taking them
apart
- Changing the shape and arrangement of
objects (folding, twisting, stretching,
stacking)
- Observing things and spaces from different
spatial viewpoints
- Experiencing and describing relative
positions, direction, and distances of things in
the immediate environment (play space, building,
neighborhood)
- Interpreting spatial relations in drawings,
pictures, and photographs
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Time
- Starting and stopping an action on signal
- Experiencing and describing different rates
of movement
- Experiencing and comparing time intervals
- Experiencing and anticipating change and
sequences of events
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