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Real Stories from Real Classrooms The March issue shares real stories from real classrooms. Read about how children respond to their teacher’s battle with breast cancer, the use of digital photography to engage infant and toddler caregivers in reflective practice, and how a physical science inquiry approach supports children's problem-solving skills. NAEYC members can read this entire issue of Young Children online in the Members Only area. |
Getting the Picture: Using the Digital Camera as a Tool to Supports Reflective Practice and Responsive Care/ Julia Luckenbill
Supporting Preschoolers' Vocabulary Learning: Using a Decision-Making Model to Select Appropriate Words and Methods/ Tanya Christ and X. Christine Wang
Additional Features
The Reading Chair/Isabel Baker and Miriam Baker Schiffer
On Our Minds. NAEYC Kicks Off New Interest Forums at the 2011 Annual Conference/Young Children's Spirituality Interest Forum and Early Childhood Science Interest Forum
Focus on Ethics. Messy Play: The Response/Stephanie Feeney and Nancy Freeman
Our Proud Heritage. The Emergence of Emergent Curriculum/Elizabeth Jones
Table of Contents
| 10 | Introduction |
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A Mommy Breast and a Daddy Breast: Encountering Illness as Emergent Curriculum / Carol Anne Wien, Bobbi-Lynn Keating, Justin West, and Barb Bigelow |
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Young Thinkers in Motion: Problem Solving and Physics in Preschool / Julia Stoll, Ashley Hamilton, Emilie Oxley, Angela Mitroff Eastman, and Rachael Brent |
| 28 | Getting the Picture: Using the Digital Camera as a Tool to Support Reflective Practice and Responsive Care / Julia Luckenbill |
| 38 | Creatures in the Classroom: Including Insects and Small Animals in Your Preschool Gardening Curriculum / Alyse C. Hachey and Deanna Butler |
| 44 | Shades of Pink: Preschoolers Make Meaning in a Reggio-Inspired Classroom / Bo Sun Kim and Linda Farr Darling |
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On Our Minds. NAEYC Kicks Off New Interest Forums at the 2011 Annual Conference / Young Children’s Spirituality Interest Forum and Early Childhood Science Interest Forum |
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Focus on Ethics. Messy Play: The Response / Stephanie Feeney and Nancy Freeman |
| 66 | Our Proud Heritage. The Emergence of Emergent Curriculum / Elizabeth Jones |
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Supporting Preschoolers’ Vocabulary Learning: Using a Decision-Making Model to Select Appropriate Words and Methods / Tanya Christ and X. Christine Wang |
| 81 | Play School: Where Children and Families Learn and Grow Together / Lori Berger McDermott |
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Helping Families Connect Early Literacy with Social-Emotional Development / Rosa Milagros Santos, Angel Fettig, and LaShorage Shaffer |
