Summertime Regression

Motor Development:There are two strands here:1. Fine Motor - "the ability to coordinate smaller muscles in the arms, hands, and fingers, and include grasping, cutting with scissors, or fastening buttons."2. Gross Motor - "movements of the entire body or large portions of the body and include the abilities to roll over, walk, run, jump, hop, skip, and climb."Achieved by:Taking child to gymnastics, arts and crafts.

Kindergarten Readiness

Communicaiton and Language Development: There are 5 strands here:1. Listening and Speaking - "awareness of the social conventions of language usage, the ability to listen, to understand, and to follow verbal conversation"2. Phonological Awareness and Alphabetic Knowledge - "hearing the different sounds of language and understanding how sounds of spoken language can be segmented, combined, and manipulated"3. Print Awareness and Concepts - "one’s construction of meaning from print and such skills as print convention, directionality, and the concepts of the word, the sentence, and punctuation"4. Comprehension - "one’s understanding of oral and written language and is heavily dependent upon word knowledge or vocabulary."5. Early Writing - " drawing, scribbling, and invented spelling"These can be achieved by:Reading stories with dialogue, sandpaper letters to teach children how to write the letters. teach the children the soud of the letter.Arts and crafts.

Sumertime regression is a big issue affecting all schoolage children. When children are out of school for the summer, studies have shown that these children lose quite a bit of their knowledge they gain throughout the year. When the children go back to school the teacher has to spend quite a bit of time just to re-teach much of what the children lost over the summer. For children about to enter kindergarten, there are many milestones that need to be met before they start, and there are plenty of ways the parents can help achieve these milestones to assure their child is ready for school.

Social Emotional Development:There are three strands of social emotional development that children need to meet before entering kindergarten. These are:1: Relationships with others: These relationships need to be positive and teach the child about trust.2: Learning about oneself (self-concept):i.e. strengths, weaknesses, beliefs, etc.3. Emotional & Self-Regulation: Ablility to understand, regulate, and express their emotions.

Cognitive Development:There are three stands here:1. Mathematical Concepts - "thinking, knowing, and problem-solving"2. Learning About the World - "scientific inquiry and exploration"3: Learning About Families and Communities - "history, geography, economics, and families and communities"Achieved by:Going to the museum/pretend city for children.

Social Emotional Development:There are three strands These are:1: Relationships with others: These relationships need to be positive and teach the child about trust.2: Learning about oneself (self-concept):i.e. strengths, weaknesses, beliefs, etc.3. Emotional & Self-Regulation: Ablility to understand, regulate, and express their emotions.These can be achieved by:1. Allowing the child to be around planty of new people, and be sure to be there for the child, so they know they can trust you.2. Allow the child to make mistakes, and learn from them, give the child some independence.3. Validate the child's feelings, give them names for what they are feeling, i.e. angry, sad, happy, surpriised, ect.