I received an e-newsletter this week from Zero to Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families. Although it didn’t have any information that related to the issues that were being talked about this week in my class, it had some very interesting topics. One of the topics was entitled: Talking to Very Young Children About Divorce. It gave several subtopics that I found helpful just for the simple fact that I have a child in my class that is going through a separations. Even though my children are young, they still want to know why their routine has changed, why dad/mom is not here anymore, and when are they coming back. I plan to take these strategies and suggestions and incorporate them into the child’s individual lesson plan.
The National Head Start Association’s website related to the issue of awareness and affordability. It had several topics about grants that had been issued to a number of Head Start programs. The grants that were issued allowed some of the head start programs/classes to stay in their location. Sometimes preschool programs are in churches where they rent classrooms. They use grant money to pay the rent for the year.
The e-newsletter was the most helpful because now I have a strategy for what dealing with the issue in the classroom. I have used the website zero to three to find activities in the class. It is a good website when working with young children.
Angela
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