Post 1 & 2

I apologize for the late post, Blogger has been telling me that someone kept on trying to hack into my account and I had to work out the issues with Tech help, and Thursday I couldn’t get online to finish it. I also want to apologize for my last post, I thought last week we were on Chapter 13, but this week we are. So I will be posting about Chapter 12 this week, making up for next week. Sorry for the inconvenient for everyone!

Post 1- When I was reading Chapter 12 I found something very interesting that I never knew before. On page 330 under "Vocabulary" the first sentence really caught my eye. "By the age of 5, children already know the names of thousands of objects, and they understand many parts of speech." I never knew that children at the age that young can know so much about our communication. I also like to compare this to the kids I babysit, because I babysit a 5 year old and yes she is a well talker, but I never knew she could understand a lot of the objects we play with. Since she usually learns from me or asks what things are I never knew she had the intelligent capability to understand over a thousand names of objects. From this point on they can understand compound words, phrases and figure of speech. In this paragraph another cool thing I would like to point out 2 year olds know egg, but 10 year old also know egg - salad, egg-drop soup and rotten eggs. This I found really interesting because it identifies the difference between what 2 year olds can understand and identify between 10 year olds. It still is crazy how much younger kids can understand and know with just little experience with certain objects and communication.

Post 2- I found something that completely related to me which was on page 342, was "Reading Wars, Math Wars and Cognitive Theory. In this section you learn the reason why children struggle and reading in math because they were taught core subjects in one way and then confronted with a different method when they changed schools. Clashes over teaching have led to serious debate. This I agree with this because I was in catholic school from pre-k through 8th grade. After that, when I went into high school I went to a public school and there teaching methods were completely different and I especially struggled in math because they taught a lot more thorough than my catholic school did. With two different teaching methods this had confused me and had me struggle a majority of my high school career. Even though this chapter focuses on children, I do believe that if we are not taught certain approaches, than when we get older we are used to the certain ways that we were taught when we were little, which could end in struggling.