Educating Early provides you with the opportunity to consider the value of educating early and if schools are preparing students for the real world. At the end these activities, you will be able to discuss why and how education is important for preschool and primary school education.
You will hear a radio broadcast on the importance of recess for young children. Match the statements with the three speakers.
Adapted from Turns out the monkey bar might be good for the brain by Christopher Connelly.
Read the text about the first day at school for young children.
Here are the words and phrases covered in this lesson about educating early:
- academic work
- character development
- educating early
- education rankings
- empathy
- kinesiologist
- junior infants
- paediatrician
- positive behaviour
- principal
- recess (US)
- role-play
- social and emotional development
- transformation
- Discuss the following points about why and how education is important for preschool and primary school education and preparing for the real world.
- Imagine you are a reporter for your school's newspaper, and you have been asked to write an article on the first day of school. Interview two or three people about their experiences on the first day of a new school.
- Give the article a heading.
- Start with a description of a scene, then explain the topic of the article.
- Use a mixture of quotations and explanations to develop the article's ideas.
- End the article with something that refers back to the beginning.
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