Ms. Roye

Health, Safety and Nutrition

This week we will:

• Examine the criteria used for planning meals for children
• Describe how to make meals more interesting to children
• Explain ways in which educators can help to improve children's health
• Evalute who has the most influence on a child
• Demonstrate how to inform parents of good nutritional practices

Students will do the following:

• Research the school system's nutrition program
• Demonstrate how to make meals attractive to children
• Plan 5 nutritional snacks for preschoolers 
• Continue to work on Nutrition Magazine

Human Growth and Development

These are the items to be covered this week:

• Compare and contrast social and emotional development of an infant
• Examine attachment
• Study the signs of social development in infants
• Evaluate how social development is learned
• Describe the relationship between play and exploration

Students will:

•  Watch a video presentation
• Write a movie review
• Use graphic organizer to compare and contrast social and emotional development
• Predict what would happen if an infant was underdeveloped socially and emotionally
• Plan an activity that ould help a group of young children develop their social skills
• Role Play

 

 

Foundations of Family and Consumer Sciences

This week is about :

• Sewing Tools, Equipment and notions
• The pattern Envelope
• pattern symbols

Students will:

• watch a video presentation on the fabric store,
• Write a movie review
• Examine sewing tools, equipment and notions
• Examine a pattern envelope
• Study pattern symbols.
• Do a quiz on sewing tools and equipment

The teacher will:

• Demontrate how to use sewing tools, equipment and notions
• Show students how to use the information on apattern envelope
• Explain the why we need thevarious items in a fabric store.

 

 

 

Health, Safety and Nutrition

Welcome back to school everyone.

This week we will continue to examine topics in nutrition. You will study the following:

• Vitamins
• Minerals
• Food labels
• Calories
• Diets of growing children

You will also continue to work on your Nutrition Magazine which is due January 31,2012

 

Human Growth and Development

Welcome back from your most enjoyable christmas vacation. I am very excited about this semester and what we will accomplish.

My goal is to get you ready for your big project that you have been waiting for, at last January is here.

Ready, Set, Go---------------------No! not quite yet, we still have to study some topics before you can get those babies.

Lets get right to it, so this week we will cover these topics:

• Temperament Traits
• The home environment and how it affects a childs development
• Social development in infants
• Exploring play and social development

You will use your textbooks, videos, discussion, brainstorm, role play and writing a narrative essay about you as a small child, and some jealous reaction to a sibling's special treatment by your parents.

You will also plan a social activity for a one year old child, to be executed in a weeks time.

Foundations of Family and Consumer Sciences

Welcome back to school everyone.  I know that you are looking forward to the new semester, especially so that you can start sewing your pillows, and I am loooking forward to that too, but there are some other things you need to know before you start.

We will start working on those other topics and should be finished in two weeks, so you can move on.

This week we will cover the following topics:

• Clothing care
• Ironing and pressing
• Shopping for clothes
• Understanding the difference between hangtags and and care labels

You will use your textbooks as well as videos for information.

Introduction to Early childhood Education

Students will:

• Review information on Historical Aspects of Early Childhood Education
• Quiz.
• Review Standards and Accreditation Process
• Present homework activity on visit to accreditation facility
• Review record keeping records in early childhood facilities

 

 

Health, Safety and Nutrition

The following topics will be done this week:

• Dietary Guidelines
• Dietary Reference Intake
• Food Guide Pyramid
• How to use the new pyramid
• Nutrients that provide energy
• Vitamins and minerals

Students will do:

• Food category race
• Food guide Pyramid Collage
• Poem/Song on energy nutrients
• Research nutrients on www.mypyramid.gov.
• Food Label activity
• Presentation of social activity

 

Human Growth and Development

The topics for this week are:

• Physical appearance of the newborn baby
• Patterns of physical growth
• Effects of heredity, nutrition, health experiences, and environment on growth and development
• Postnatal care

Assignments are:

• Debate
• Pictorial Chart showing key physical development through infancy
• Review 9 week assessment
• Blue Day 3rd Block students will present their Baby Shower on Friday, November 11th.
• Evaluation of baby shower

 

 

 

Foundations of Family and Consumer Sciences

Students will continue to research births defects under the following subheadings:

• Descriptions
• Causes
• Detection
• Prevention

Be sure to mention which of the following groups of causes of birth defects your specific one is classified under:

• Heredity
• Environment
• Errors inChromosomes
• Interaction of Environment and Heredity

Design a brochure with your information.

Presentation of research will be on Thursday, November 10th and Friday, November 11th.

Rubrics will be provided.

Blue Day class will continue to work on collaborative activity with Mrs. Conley's class.

Presentation of activity is set for Friday, November 11th.