Interacting with professionals Charla Holley

Observing and Interacting With Professionals, Children, and Families in an Early Childhood Setting

Name: Charla Holley

Date: October 22, 2012

Name of Program/Setting: Head Start

Who I spoke with: Ms.Colett

What I learned about … I learned about Head Start Curriculum, Fire Safety Drills and about making Play dough.  The Curriculum that is use at the site is the Creative Curriculum.

Two insights, experiences, or quotes that I will share in my blog this week…

 Ms.Colett said that the curriculum has changed from last year. She does not like the way Creative Curriculum is set-up. She feels that the lessons have too many parts and components to them. I saw her struggling to connect all the different parts together. The lesson was about small, medium and large. She used the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears to teach the concept. It was hard to get the idea across because the children are use to Mama, Papa and Baby Bear. The children never looked at the bears as small, medium, and large. Ms. Colett said “I wish we could go back to the old curriculum.”

Another experience was getting to help with a bus fire drill. Mr. Hobbs from the main Head Start center came to the Langley site to teach the children about get off the bus if a fire happened. I helped the children to get out of the back of the bus during the drill. This was the first time I ever did a bus fire drill. Half of the children were suppose to get off the front of the bus and half were  suppose to get off the back, but during the drill most of the children when out the back. It was confusing but fun at the same time.