6/10/01 Question 111/ Welcoming New Culture
Dear Preschool Teacher,
     I have had a Chinese family join my preschool group recently, and would like to make them feel welcome and accepted by introducing their culture and traditions to the other children in the class, do you have any ideas on how I could achieve this?
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6/10/01 Question 112/ Everybody Wins
Dear Preschool Teacher,
     I am looking for a noncompetitive game for a school project. Do you know of any?
Thanks,
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6/10/01 Question 113/ Need your 2 cents
Dear Preschool Teacher,
     I am a education major at UC, next wed. I need to turn in a lesson plan (or 2) about preschoolers and money. Perhaps you have something that you have done in your class that introduces money to these youngsters
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6/10/01 Question 114/ Redirecting Twos
Dear Preschool Teacher,
     I teach two year olds at a wonderful preschool. My problem is that I have a hard time keeping all the kids' attention when a few kids are misbehaving. How do I  redirect the "good" kids away from the troublesome ones my assistants are taking care of?  Thanks for your help.
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7/6/01 Question 115/ Helping Advanced Children
Dear Preschool Teacher,
     I have been told my son is advanced, he is three. He knows his whole alphabet recognizes every letter big and small and write his name, count to 12, knows his birthday and home phone number. His preschool does not seem to do much to help him only games and play which I love, but I want to help
him keep his smarts. How can I work with him. How may I ask his preschool teacher if she can work on something like words or counting at least once a week?
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7/6/01 Question 116/ Many Roles
Dear Preschool Teacher,
     I have to do an informative speech on being a preschool teacher.  Could you tell me the different roles the teacher plays ex: mother, nurse, cheerleader.  Also any suggestions on an attention getter to start my speech?  Thank you for your help.
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7/6/01 Question 117/ Word For Word
Dear Preschool Teacher,
     I am also a preschool teacher, I have a quick question for you. We were making feelings booklets, and I always write what the child says above picture even if it is bad, but the thing that happen was a child stated, "It makes me angry when Jeff hits me" (meaning the mothers boyfriend). I went ahead and wrote the statement down. Would you have?
     Well that was 2 years ago and guess what? It is now being used in court in protecting this child. There has been other pictures as well that he has drawn with statements in which I have always wrote what the child has said word by word. Is that the right thing to do?
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7/6/01 Question 118/ Hanging Shoe Laces
Dear Preschool Teacher,
    Do you know any poems or songs for tying shoes??
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7/30/01 Question 119/ Multicultural Art
Dear Preschool Teacher,
     I am a student trying to think of ideas for a multicultural art
activity to do with my 3 year old classroom. I want to hang it up in the classroom too. I can't think of anything that I haven't already done before with them. Can you help?
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