If you’re happy and you know it

Transition time:

If you’re happy and you know it, 

Clap your hands

If you’re happy and you know it, 

Clap your hands

If you're happy and you know it

Then your face will surely show it

If you're happy and you know it

Clap your hands

If you’re happy and you know it, 

stomp your feet (2x)

If you're happy and you know it

Then your face will surely show it

If you're happy and you know it

Stomp your feet

Repeat: the song but change to "shout hurray!"

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Transition Time in Child Care

When we are talking about transition, it is the changes of events. In daycare or child care, it is the time when we have to follow the daily routine or schedule, changes from one place to the other and or moving things or toys from the container to the floor and back and forth, to stop the activity and moving on to the other activity.

What is transition time in daycare? 

Transition is the most difficult time for the children particularly if they are engaged to the activity. It is also a challenging part of the educator perhaps the stressful parts of the day in the daycare or childcare. There is too much movement that it possibly gives confusion, other children may feel excitement and others may feel disoriented and lost.

Transition activity should be planned in advance and educator must be focused on. This is the time to impose discipline in order to minimize behavioral problems and chaos and to let the children know that they are still safe and secure whatever the changes of activity they may have.

Some suggested transition activity that can help in the daycare settings:

1. Songs/Rhyme 
2. Finger plays
3. Head Counting
4. Hand Clapping
5. Simon says and many more...

Example: Acka Backa

Best Marks Ever, just Want to Share

I am so proud to show one of my best comments received from my midterm Oral Presentation.

I never think that I would received such an astounding comments ever with a perfect points from my teacher in Observation & Experimentation course during my mid-term oral presentation. The last semester in my Early Childhood Education program is seems a lot of ups and downs. There's so much to consider like projects, on the job training plus family obligations. All of these things drives me crazy, so much pressure in my head that I thought I couldn't do it. 

One of my biggest stress is the Observation & Experimentation course. I feel that the teacher  is very strict and she's pushing the students to be more expressive and creative which is for me it gives a great benefits for everyone of us but the stress is also big however, I also found it very helpful just in my own opinion. When, I start researching and doing my crafts I find it more easy and it became comfortable of doing it. The theories which I studied first became clear. I understand more particularly in implementing the educational concepts to the children.

Since I had already a background of implementing educational concepts and in delivering it, as a previous high school teacher in my country, it became easy to apply moreover, I cannot say that the concepts is the same because now I am dealing with small children. Perhaps, due to the fact that our teacher is great, so I made to the top, I mean I got the best comments I ever had. When, I did my oral presentation, I was really nervous, based on what I heard that our teacher is so critic of giving her opinion and mostly they said, she always give a negative feedback and low marks.

Notwithstanding, after she gave the evaluation paper, my eyes went straight to the marks and was ecstatic when I saw 20/20. I closed my eyes then open it and looked again because maybe it was just an illusion but the marks is the same. Then, I read the comments and I am like "WOW". I feel like a kid having a candy bar in my hand where I couldn't hid my smiles. I am so proud for the comments and happy for the suggestions I received. 

Weather Wheel Chart

During my observation and experimentation midterm class oral presentation, it was optional if we make our own weather wheel chart or ready made weather wheel chart. Most of the students chose to make our own and showed our creativity in making this chart besides it costs us less.

Part of our program as an early childhood educator is to be creative, so why not practicing and enhancing our little talents in arts and making crafts as early as possible.

Weather chart is very useful in everyday lives particularly in teaching our young children about the weather. It gives the children a concrete ideas of what the weather looks like and feels like. It will also give them the basic information on what to wear in every season appropriately.  

Giving lessons or mentioning to the children everyday about the weather during circle time will enhance their cognitive skills on the weather whereabouts.