Awareness Of Symbols and Patterns

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Q-list opportunities educators have throughout the day to encourage children to be aware of Patterns?

Finding Patterns.
Pick up on patterns child may have discovered, or point out ones they haven’t yet noticed. Children often identify repeating patterns naturally occurring in their environment such as stripes on a shirt (red, yellow, blue; red, yellow, blue). educators can help by stating out loud a pattern they noticed. Children may also tune into repeating patterns of sounds (loud, loud, soft; loud, loud, soft) – like the sound of windshield wipers or other sequential rhythms. Keep an ear out for patterns in songs, for example, “Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes.

Creating Patterns.
Encourage child to create patterns by arranging colored blocks, crayons, different sized objects, or stringing beads and more. educators can also invite them to create patterns in their physical movements such as “jump, jump, clap; jump, jump, clap.” Ask them about the pattern they are creating. But remember, when children create their own patterns, they may follow the pattern for awhile and then change suddenly.

Asking Questions
Posing open-ended, pattern-related questions also helps expand children’s thinking and makes concept connections. Here are some samples of questions to ask:

Do you see a pattern? Tell me about it.
What comes next? Could you make a pattern with these different materials?
How could we make a picture that would help us remember this pattern?
Can you show me a pattern with your body? What would you do first? Second?
What happens over and over again with these blocks?
How would you read this pattern?
What would happen to the pattern if I changed _

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Q-List opportunities educators have throughout the day to encourage children to be aware of symbols?
Educators can encourage discussions for children to look into the relationships between symbol systems, for example letters,numbers,time,money and musical notation.Activities to increase awareness of symbols can include:
- eye spy games
-letter or word hunt
-comparing texts such as magazines/books etc
Encouraging children to develop their own symbol systems (using symbols instead of words) can provide them with opportunities to explore culturally constructed symbol systems(Aboriginal signs and symbols)
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Q-why do you think symbols and patterns are relevent to children's early childhood education?

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Q-Provide age and stage appropriate resources and materials to promote learning and wellbeing.

Infants (an infant that has begun responding to new sounds)

RESOURCES AND MATERIALS
1-low riding toys without pedals
2-large cars and trucks (plastic or wooden)
3-rocking toys
4-toy telephones
5-small mucical toys
6-rattles, chimes, soft toys with bells inside, music boxes, musical mobiles, musical push/pull
toys
7-bells, toy pianos, xylophones, rhythm sticks, tambourines, drums, maracas, cymbals, tone
blocks, shakers made of plastic bottles, rain sticks

EXPERIENCES
1-grasping toys
2-squeeze toys
3-rattles
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Toddlers (that is showing interest in collecting things from their surroundings)

RESOURCES AND MATERIALS
1-containers (clear plastic, wicker, rattan, baskets
2-large wooden beads, thick strings, laces
3-shoe boxes, plastic food tubs (variety of sizes) with lids
4-gift boxes
5-containers to drop objects into (smooth tin juice lids into tin containers with or without slot)

EXPERIENCES
1-a guessing game about the things present in surrounding
2-walk outside
3-planting trees
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PRE SCHOOLERS (that likes playing games with other children)

RESOURCES AND MATERIALS
1-puzzles
2-puppets
3-music from various cultures and in various languages
4-nesting toys or containers in graduated sizes
5-costumes
6-doll furnishings and assessories

EXPERIENCES
1-hide and seek
2-treasure hunt
3-sing nursery rhymes
4-musical chairs
5-peek a boo game
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SCHOOL AGE (showing interest in nature and their environment)
1-leaves
2-small plants
3-flowers
4-water
5-sand
6-textures and materials

EXPERIENCES
1-create a garden
2-paint rocks
3-explore tides and tidepools
4-plant trees
5-feed birds and animals
6-camping
7-puddle jumping
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this is actually different from holistic development of children 3

[Lorina]

Yes, your responses are good!

Becoming Literate - will help you on the question you are stuck on...

My daughter has been sick so I haven't had much time on here...

Hope this helps,

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Lorina

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Thanks Lorina for the help, may yourlittle one get well really soon