During the month of November, the staff at Neighborhood House, a child development center celebrating 100 years in Auburn, is really focusing on teaching its students all about what it means to be thankful. The children are working on social skills and identifying their own feelings as they begin to learn to respect others’ feelings. Even at a young age, children need to experience putting words to how they might be feeling. The staff is helping the children put emotions such as mad, sad, happy or excited into their vocabularies so they can have great social skills when they enter kindergarten. Thankfulness for friends and family is an important way to show these feelings, and ties right in to family traditions surrounding the holiday season.
We as a staff are also showing our thanks to the United Way by contributing to the 2011 campaign. Every staff member has donated this year, and we continue to support the fundraising campaign in any way that we can. The United Way has partnered with 10 of our wonderful families to offer day care scholarships based on educational need, and each child has shown great developmental progress.
The staff has benefited from several different types of specific child care trainings this past month, including attending the Growing Together Conference, focusing on child care regulations, and a class on safety and procedures with the Auburn Fire Department. We have also partnered with the American Red Cross to offer classes to become certified in infant, child, and adult CPR and first aid. Classes are held here at the Neighborhood House still, with space available for only a $10 registration fee. Please call 252-5741 to register for a class.
Our spotlight staff member this month is Amy Jordan. Jordan is an Auburn native getting ready to begin her 12th year with us here at the Neighborhood House! We are so lucky to have the talented, always patient Ms. Jordan with us. She has her early childhood degree from Cayuga Community College, and her bachelor’s degree in elementary education from Empire State College.
She is currently obtaining her master’s in teaching from Le Moyne College and will be dual certified in elementary education and special education. When asked about her favorite part of working at Neighborhood House, she responds, “It is seeing the children succeed.” Ms. Jordan has spent her years in the 4-year-old preschool class, with some work in the Universal Preschool Room as well.
“I come back each year, excited to meet the kids. When they learn something new, I get pulled in to their excitement like it is my own. I just had a student learn to tie her shoes on her own.
She will purposely untie them, so she can show me how to tie them back up. She would rather practice tying shoes than play on the playground! That kind of enthusiasm and excitement is why I have always wanted to be a teacher.”
It is easy to see why I am thankful each day, when I have such wonderful staff members like Amy to work with and share our children and families with.
Source:
auburnpub.com
We as a staff are also showing our thanks to the United Way by contributing to the 2011 campaign. Every staff member has donated this year, and we continue to support the fundraising campaign in any way that we can. The United Way has partnered with 10 of our wonderful families to offer day care scholarships based on educational need, and each child has shown great developmental progress.
The staff has benefited from several different types of specific child care trainings this past month, including attending the Growing Together Conference, focusing on child care regulations, and a class on safety and procedures with the Auburn Fire Department. We have also partnered with the American Red Cross to offer classes to become certified in infant, child, and adult CPR and first aid. Classes are held here at the Neighborhood House still, with space available for only a $10 registration fee. Please call 252-5741 to register for a class.
Our spotlight staff member this month is Amy Jordan. Jordan is an Auburn native getting ready to begin her 12th year with us here at the Neighborhood House! We are so lucky to have the talented, always patient Ms. Jordan with us. She has her early childhood degree from Cayuga Community College, and her bachelor’s degree in elementary education from Empire State College.
She is currently obtaining her master’s in teaching from Le Moyne College and will be dual certified in elementary education and special education. When asked about her favorite part of working at Neighborhood House, she responds, “It is seeing the children succeed.” Ms. Jordan has spent her years in the 4-year-old preschool class, with some work in the Universal Preschool Room as well.
“I come back each year, excited to meet the kids. When they learn something new, I get pulled in to their excitement like it is my own. I just had a student learn to tie her shoes on her own.
She will purposely untie them, so she can show me how to tie them back up. She would rather practice tying shoes than play on the playground! That kind of enthusiasm and excitement is why I have always wanted to be a teacher.”
It is easy to see why I am thankful each day, when I have such wonderful staff members like Amy to work with and share our children and families with.
Source:
auburnpub.com
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