1. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Observing group (make up)
Groups will leave after the song or book to complete their observation. Return to class when it is finished.
Found in the back of the purple section Unit 5.
Stay out of the way and SILENT.
This is your only day to observe. Come back when you are finished.
The rest of you are in class.
Explain practice groups and teaching groups.

2. Preschool Cognitive Development
Pop a batch of popcorn during the bell quiz to get ahead on the popcorn. Pass out napkins during the video.

3. List major cognitive milestones for a preschooler
3 Year Old
Short sentences
896 Words
Great growth in communication
Tells simple stories
Uses words as tool of thought
Answers questions
Imaginative
May recite few nursery rhymes
4 Year Old
Uses complete sentences
1540 words
Asks endless questions
Learning to generalize
Highly imaginative
Dramatic
Can draw recognizable objects

4. Preschoolers all over the  United States   were shown this picture and asked the same question.
Which way is the bus below traveling? To the left or to the right?
Can't make up your mind? Look carefully at the picture again. 

5. “Because you can't see the door to get on the bus.”
90% of the pre-schoolers said:   'The bus is traveling to the left.'  When asked, “Why do you think the bus is traveling to the left?” They answered: 
“Because you can't see the door to get on the bus.”
How does it make you feel? 

6. Preschool Cognitive Terms
These skills have all been learned through play.
Hands on = minds on
Without an understanding of and an ability to perform these skills; school, work, and basic day-to -day life tasks would be difficult to succeed in.

7. One of these things

8. CLASSIFYING Grouping objects into categories of nature. Examples:
Rocks, boys and girls, animals,
colors, etc.

9. SORTING
Classified items being put into categories according to their similarities.
Examples
Blocks, buttons, silverware, leaves, laundry, dogs

10. SERIATION
Organizing objects according to increasing or decreasing qualities.
 Example
Age, height, weight, length, lining up, building a snowmen, your lockers or class, addresses

11. CONSERVATION
Understanding that an objects physical dimensions and amounts remain the same even though its appearance changes
 Example
Pouring liquid from one cup into another shaped cup. Smashing a cookie dough ball or play dough, 2 different shaped cookies or containers of food.

13. REVERSAL Building or doing and then undoing it Example Zip and unzip,
build a sand castle and wreck it,
block tower and wreck it,
tie and untie
mistakes

14. TRANSFORMATION Changing an object’s state. Example Popcorn
Water into ice or ice into water,
powder jello mix into jiggly jello and then adding hot water to the jello to turn it back into a liquid,
growing older with age,
a seed into a plant,
dough into bread

15. SEQUENCING Step by step pattern of event put into correct order.
 Example
Directions in cooking, a story,
a snowman being built and then melting into water,
following correct order to performing a task
Your class schedule or job responsibilities

16. Now try these 2 Preschool tasks
Finish this Drawing
Assignment #6
Sequencing Story
Do sequencing activity for movement and to introduce the concept.

17. 10 minute COGNITIVE BREAK
1. Unfinished Picture
2. Matching terms
- How many do you know?
Pop popcorn
Preoperational Thinking

18. Inquisitive Symbols Everyday Experiences Reading stories
Make-Believe Play
Opinions
YES and NO
Egocentric
Experiment
Parental Attitude
Limited Focus
Test
Talk
Conservation
Language Ability
Chores
Preoperational Stage
Problem Solving
Picture questions
Tea party
Hyperlinks to slides
Picture Check list
Flour/flower

19. E V R D A Y L N I G *Words learned *Child asking *Concepts learning
*Caregiver asking E V R D A Y L N I G
Discuss what could be learning in each picture

20. 3 little pig story

22. Flour Flower Story

23. Answers Cognitive Terms
1. Language ability (Q)
This ability reveals a child’s intellectual development: how they think, their interests, and their personalities.
2. Preoperational Stage (A)
Jean Piaget said that toddlers and preschoolers are in this second stage of cognitive development.
3. Experiment (L)
Allow children to learn about their world that they live in by exploring and through _________.

24. 4. Parental Attitude (O)
This person’s attitude largely influences a preschoolers
enjoyment in school curriculum areas like reading,
math, science, art, music, and overall learning.
5. Everyday Experiences (F)
Preschoolers learn best by participating and being
involved in these type of experiences.
Such as going to the going grocery store.
6. Chores (K)
To increase Erik Erikson’s development of initiative
and autonomy, preschoolers need to be included in
these types of jobs and other daily clean up tasks
around the house.

25. Cognitive Terms 7. Symbols (B)
In the preoperational stage, a child learns that these visual items represent objects and words.
8. Limited Focus (E)
 A preoperational form where kids find it hard to concentrate on more than one feature of an object at a time or complete more than one task at a time.
9. Problem Solving (P)
Preschoolers begin to develop this solving skill as their cognitive abilities improve.

26. 10. Reading Stories (N)
Spending time doing this activity with kids is an effective way to introduce them to reading. It makes learning easier and more fun.
11. Talk (G)
To increase a child’s learning, caregivers should look for opportunities to do this with them about what they are seeing, doing, and experiencing.
12. Egocentric (D)
This preoperational stage is viewing the world in terms of one’s own ideas and wants and thinking that everyone else feels the same way.

27. Cognitive Terms 13. Opinions (I)
To increase a child’s learning and problem solving abilities, ask a child’s views or ________ on subjects.
14. Conservation (R)
A cognitive skill where a child understands that even though the shape property of an object changes, the other amount still remains the same.
15. Inquisitive (H)
Children are naturally this way. They ask a lot of questions because they are curious and want to understand the world around them. Answer them.

28. 16. Test (M)
Success of a child depends upon qualities like motivation, determination, creativity, and self-confidence, and is not based on _________ scores.
17. YES and NO (J)
To increase a child’s learning, ask questions to a preschooler that requires more than these type of simple one word answers.
18. Make-Believe play (C)
This preoperational characteristic is when a child imitates real-life situations in fantasy play such as house, grocery store, or restaurant.