Chalk Talk: A Kindergarten Blog A Cupcake for the Teacher Miss Kindergarten Mrs. Teachnology A Place Called Kindergarten First Grade O.W.L.s The Wise Owl Factory Some words sound the same, but are spelled differently and have very different meanings. Using the wrong word is easy to do, but it is just as easy to use them correctly if you study a few at a time. The following words are frequently confused and used incorrectly: Their: belongs to them Example: I found their house by using Google Maps. There: location (Replace it with the similar word “where.”) Example: We will be going there today. Loose: (rhymes with moose) not close together – free Example: Baby’s front tooth is loose. Lose: to suffer loss Example: Our team is going to lose tonight. Hear: to receive sound through the ears Example: I hope to hear him sing tonight. Here: this place Example: Let’s stop here and rest. Passed: verb, past tense of pass Example: Father passed me the potatoes. Past: noun, preposition, or adjective Example: I wonder if he had a troubled past. Example: Her past experience is valuable. Example: The plane flew past the buildings. Peace: the opposite of war
teach, blog, repeat Teaching in High Heels What the Teacher Wants! Earlychildhood NEWS - Article Reading Center We are always looking for the magic bullet, something that will solve all our problems. And, today this magic bullet for education is technology. It will solve all our problems! It will increase academic skills, reduce dropout rates, eliminate the racial divide in academic performance, and increase SAT scores. And it will make the lives of teachers easier. Well, it may not accomplish all of these goals, but educational technology does have a place in early childhood. Are Computers Developmentally Appropriate? To evaluate whether computers are developmentally appropriate for children over age three, we need to determine the developmental needs of these children. Howard Gardner has shown that young children exhibit a diversity of learning styles, and that the optimum way for many children to learn is not the traditional teacher-directed, verbal approach (, 1987). 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. This approach cannot be implemented with only one computer in the classroom. ReferencesElkind, D. (1998).
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