IEL Electronic Newsletter
2008, Issue 5
New IEL Tip Sheet in English
- The Project Approach: Helping Children Ask Questions
http://illinoisearlylearning.org/tipsheets/projects-questions.htm
New IEL Tip Sheets in Spanish
- Cómo planificar un jardín con niños pequeños
http://illinoisearlylearning.org/tipsheets-sp/garden-planning-sp.htm - Cuando la maestra de su hijo llama…
http://illinoisearlylearning.org/tipsheets-sp/teachercalls-sp.htm - Cómo animar el pensamiento científico… acerca del clima
http://illinoisearlylearning.org/tipsheets-sp/weather-sp.htm
New IEL Tip Sheets in Polish
- Dealing with Parental Guilt
http://illinoisearlylearning.org/tipsheets-pol/parent-guilt-pol.pdf - Helping Children Handle Disappointment
http://illinoisearlylearning.org/tipsheets-pol/disappointment-pol.pdf - Encouraging Words
http://illinoisearlylearning.org/tipsheets-pol/encouragingwords-pol.pdf - Helping Siblings Get Along
http://illinoisearlylearning.org/tipsheets-pol/sibs-pol.pdf
“Ask an Expert”
Imagination and Fantasy in Early Childhood
- Responses to April’s “Ask an Expert” discussion continue to be added to the Web site. Karen Stephens, director of the Illinois State University (ISU) Child Care Center as well as an instructor in child development for the ISU Family and Consumer Sciences Department, has provided thoughtful responses to why children are naturally drawn to fantasy and pretend play. To view the questions and her responses, please go to http://illinoisearlylearning.org/askanexpert/stephens2008/trans.htm.
- To view related resources on the topic, please go to http://illinoisearlylearning.org/askanexpert/stephens2008/sup.htm.
Search Early Learning Web Links
- Have you used the Early Learning Web Links recently to find resources to help achieve the Early Learning Benchmarks? You can search by selecting keywords or phrases, age level, audience, reading level, setting, and learning area. To find resources, go to
http://illinoisearlylearning.org/cgi-bin/iel/searchiel.asp
Illinois Projects in Practice Web Site
- What is a project? A project is an in-depth investigation of a topic undertaken by a class, a group of children, or an individual child in an early childhood classroom or at home.
- If you are looking for information related to the Project Approach, please go to http://illinoispip.org. IllinoisPIP, maintained by the Illinois Early Learning Project, facilitates communication among educators who have completed either Projects in Practice or Great Expectations training. For more information on these training events, please call The Center at 224-366-8525, or go to the training calendar at http://ecap-webserver.crc.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/calendar/calendar.asp?c=PIP.
Visit Us at a Conference Near You!
- The Women’s Business Development Center will sponsor the Child Care Business Conference on June 21, 2008, at Navy Pier in Chicago, Illinois. For more information, please email wbdc@wbdc.org. (IEL exhibit)
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