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Building Background Knowledge
I remember going into a parent teacher meeting and the teacher said “Ms Pizarro, myself and the other teachers have talked about him. If we put all the kids in all 3 kindergarten classes together and added up their background knowledge - your son would probably know more than them. I don’t know how you did that and he didn’t even go to preschool.” I was blown away because I didn’t “DO” a lot of things or “enrichment” classes. But when the environment and relationship is already rich - you don’t need to!
My son (now teenager) recently reminded me of how important these books (pictured) were for him in his early childhood. We got into them around age 3.5 to 4 but you could use them for children much older. Most public libraries carry them. (We love free).
I don’t like “testing” kids on background knowledge. Instead, I expose and then make connections as we interact in the world.
I have modules in the course for background knowledge and vocabulary in the course and can do non-course free content once the group gets going. It’s so fun.
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Building Background Knowledge
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