"You got it" article

Relationships: The single most powerful thing that educators can do to increase motivation is to build close connections with their students.we are conducting at Search Institute is finding that those close connections become truly developmental for young people when five elements occur regularly and authentically in the relationship: expressing care, challenging growth, providing support, sharing power, and expanding possibilities.  Effort: Adults also need to help students believe that when they challenge themselves mentally, use good learning strategies, and see mistakes and failures as opportunities to improve, they can become smarter and more successful in school.  Aspirations: If we help students develop positive visions of their possible selves and see how their actions in the present will affect their ability to realize those visions, we can improve both academic effort and academic outcomes.  Cognition: When we teach students to think about their own thinking, it strengthens their ability to manage learning and control impulses. Those skills, in turn, strengthen students’ abilities to complete tasks and achieve goals.  Heart: Educators can support students’ intrinsic motivation by helping them discover and reflect on what they love to do,and what they love about themselves (their best values). When students see their own strengths and when educators acknowledge those strengths, students are better able to resist biases such as stereotype threat and achieve their full potential in school.

Social &Emotional development (the importance of secure)

A secure attachment bond ensures that your child will feel secure, understood, and be calm enough to experience optimal development of his or her nervous system. Your child’s developing brain organizes itself to provide your child with the best foundation for life: a feeling of safety that results in eagerness to learn, healthy self-awareness, trust, and empathy.

Scavenger Hunt

Consent means give permission for something to happen.
Developmental delay means the condition of a child being less developed mentally or physically than is normal for its age. Early intervention services mean doing things as early as possible to work on your child developmental health and support needs. Infant and toddler with a disability means early support for infants and toddlers. Multidisciplinary means combining or involving several academic diciplines or professional specialization in an approach to topic or problem. Native language means children growing up in bilingual homes or have more than one Native language. Natural enviorments means all living things and non living things accurring natural on earth. Prior written notice means to let you know of any information or changes to that they or you migth have to do or to sign off on something and you can agree to it or not.

Songs

Here are 10 songs i found that sound really fun for kids while in circle time,cleaning,sleeping, transitioning or just starting a activity. Are you eating, Bye Bye, Days of the week, Are you Sleeping, Bingo, Sunshine, Were putting our toys away, washing hands, wake up in the morning and We are marching.

Disability Simulation

Don't know how to explain this but being blindfolded was really scary because you can't see anything only here people around you not knowing if you can trust them and the not able to hear thing it must be so hard and difficult for a child with not hearing. Now i know that children with that disabilities of not being able to see or hear must be very hard for them. i actually tried the blind folded activity with Preschoolers at my job and let me tell you ladies it did not go well lol very, very loud and kids bumping in to each other screaming not knowing what to do, but they did understand and ask questions about children with disability witch made very happy that they would want to know more about children with disabilities. i hope that now that i know more about children with disabilities i will do my best to make it easier for them.

Free Clinic Directory and Dental Resources

Its important for our families to know where to find free Clinics and Dental help for there children and them self's helping families is a way of saying we are here for them not only as teachers but as someone they can count on to find the support and help that they might need that's why is important to communicate with parents. Here is the link to find these and more free Clinic and Dental services.
http://freeclinicdirectory.org/washington_care/pierce_wa_county.html

Adult dental clinic
Tacoma WA 98405
(253)572-7002

Children Dental Clinic
Tacoma WA 98405
(253)272-7648

Community Health Care
Tacoma WA 98408
(253)597-4550

Mckinley Clinic
Tacoma WA 98404
(253)404-0737
Dental care services, primary Medical care

Sea Mar Tacoma Medical and Dental
Tacoma WA 98405
(253)593-2144

Hand Washing

It is very important to wash our hands to prevent from getting any infections. I have seen people just rinsing there hands at restaurants and school not using soap! i think is chocking to see that specially in a place where you enjoy eating. Hand washing more than six times a day is considered the basic hygiene. People  should was there hands after preparing raw meat, using the toilet, doing diaper change when you touch an animal or touch your nose and sneezing. You should by wetting your hands first with warm or cold water then turning the water off then applying soap and scrubbing your hands for 20secs then rinse your hands and turn off the water with the paper towel and last open the door with the paper towel you dry your hands with it may sound like a lot but its the best for everyone.