7/30/01 Question 121/ Same & Different
Dear Preschool Teacher,
     I'm working with a 4 year old.  I am having trouble trying to find a way to teach her to tell the difference between something that is the same, and different.  Can you give me any good ideas?  I feel I have tried just about everything I can think of.  She also don't know her colors.
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7/30/01 Question 122/ Mad Driver
Dear Preschool Teacher,
     I always keep conversation on while driving my two children.  At times, I cannot concentrate on what they are asking because of the heavy traffic situation.  But my elder son, 5 yrs old keeps wanting an answer from me. Sometime, it really make me mad and scolded him out front.  I felt bad after each incident.  I've explained the situation that I was in to him a couple of times but still face the same problem.  He doesn't seem to understand. Do you have better suggestion?
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9/1/01 Question 123/ Scissor Song
Dear Preschool Teacher,
    Do you have a rhyme that is used to help teach young children how to cut with scissors?
Thanks,
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9/1/01 Question 124/ ECE Definition
Dear Preschool Teacher,
      I am a student and I was asked to define early childhood education, please help answer this question.
Thanks
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9/1/01 Question 125/ New to Preschool Planning
Dear Preschool Teacher,
    My friends and I would like to set up a preschool in my home for 4 children as we live in a very rural area that is without a program. The ages are 2 1/2 to 4 years old.  I've been printed out some of the wonderful lessons that you have to offer on this site.  My question is how do I know how much time to allocated for each activity?   Also, we plan to run the preschool 3 days a week for 2 and half hours a week, so how many activities
should we try to do?  I don't want to over load them, but make it a fun, learning experience.
Thanks,
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9/1/01 Question 126/ Not Seeing Clear
Dear Preschool Teacher,
     I am student teaching.  One of my up and coming themes is Mirrors.  I am having a very difficult time coming up with activities relating to and using mirrors.  Any ideas?
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9/13/01 Question 127/ Off The Hook
Dear Preschool Teacher,
    I'm having trouble coming up with some ideas about telephone activity with (3) year olds. Can you please help me?
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9/13/01 Question 128/ Lowercase Letters
Dear Preschool Teacher,
     My 2 year old knows all the uppercase letters and I wanted to introduce the lower case letters. Should I put them all up with the uppercase or just do the lowercase letters. They are the magnetic letters on the fridge. My question is how should I introduce the lowercase letters.
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9/13/01 Question 129/ Waterbed Safety
Dear Preschool Teacher,
    Do you know if it's safe for a 3-year old to sleep on a waterbed?  (or articles/websites that might have this info) I know that it is not safe for infants.
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9/13/01 Question 130/ 21 to 1
Dear Preschool Teacher,
    I am feeling so discouraged!  I have taught for eighteen years, the last three of which have been pre-kindergarten in a public school. Our district received a federal grant so we have initiated all day pre-kindergarten this year with little or no training or preparation.  I have 21 children in my class and only have a teaching assistant every third day.  I question such an environment.  I cannot possibly manage to teach the large number of children as I would like because so much of my day is organizational and crowd control at this point.  Please help me to find some solutions to this difficult situation.  I cannot understand why private schools who take pre-kindergarten students have to have  one teacher per nine children but the public schools do not have to meet the same guidelines.  Do you have any ideas, suggestions, web sites...anything...I am
having such stressful days!
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