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i will not say this again:

please for the love of god google child developmental stages before writing a kidfic.

if i see one more 4 year old talking like a baby, i will riot.

(even 2-3 year olds can speak in mostly understandable sentences.)

(also, research how the speech develops, its not just speech impediments and skipping words)

(also, also, actually just do whatever you want, but if you want to write accurate child characters research is important.)

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The Importance Of Unstructured Play In Early Childhood

Children are naturally active and drawn to unstructured play activities such as crawling to grab a toy, throwing a ball, sorting blocks, and so on. What is unstructured play? Unstructured play simply refers to motor skill-based activities initiated by children as they begin to explore their immediate environment without adult intervention. The importance of unstructured play:

1. Strengthens Motor Skills: Unstructured outdoor play, such as walking in the park, sorting leaves and pebbles, and building a sand castle, among other examples of free play activities, helps tiny-tots flex their muscles, which helps boost their physical development.

2. Fosters Creativity and Imagination: Although children are not expected to adhere to predetermined rules, unstructured free play empowers them to discover, experiment, and express their imagination in creative ways.

3. Stimulates problem-solving skills: Unstructured play ideas engage children in games that allow them to establish rules, encourage them to initiate play, instill a sense of cooperation, and exercise problem-solving skills to improve coordination.

4. Improved Social Interactions: Unstructured play in early childhood aims to expose children to a world beyond their comfort zone. Playing outdoor games, watching puppet shows together, and participating in group discussions are a few examples of free play activities that promote the development of social skills in children.

Allow your child to enjoy the benefits of an enriching play-based learning approach at My Gym that builds a solid foundation for your child’s academic growth by nurturing their physical, cognitive, social, and emotional capabilities.

so I got a job as a preschool teacher that I’ll be starting in about 3 months!! excited!! but also? my degree is in English. I’ve got some idea of how to do a good job, but I’m doing heavy research rn into early childhood education on how to be a good teacher, and what to expect for teaching preschoolers. If anyone has any tips, stories, books or other resources, please let me know!

#preschool #preschool teacher #teacher #advice?#advice #early childhood education

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After wanting to be a teacher for so many years and then recently having my grad school dreams crushed by a terrible professor, I have finally gotten a job in teaching, and I finished my very first bulletin board today. I’m so proud of it, and I’m proud of myself.

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I’m going to school to be an ece teacher, and here’s how I’ll nurture my students

- Goodbye rituals based on children’s needs and boundaries:

-Good morning rituals that only slightly vary to produce a healthy routine (helps with home sickness and starting the day properly)

- Guidance over discipline, positive experiences over negative ones. Communication will be key

- Classroom pet that can be observed and taken care of (within the child’s abilities) such as an axolotl or hermit crab. Animal will be properly taken care of and reside in my home during breaks and weekends

- Sensory cooldown spaces for sensory overloads:

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JLPT N5 - くなる and くする

This grammar point is very simple. You use くなる when the condition of something becomes a certain way by itself. On the other hand, くする is used when the condition of something is changed by an outside agent (either a person or a thing). In this post, let’s look at these two very basic constructions and how the Japanese works.

Here is your vocabulary:

【The Grammar】

The grammar is very simple. First, you take an adjective or a noun and change them to their adverbial forms. For example, the adjective 長い has an adverbial form of 長く. The noun ひま has an adverbial form of ひまに.

After you make the adverbial forms of the adjective or the noun, you just put it before either なる or する. That’s it!

We talked about the く connector in this post and about the adverbial に in this post.

I should point out that while this grammar point appears in most JLPT books and websites as くなる and くする, as you can see in the picture above, nouns don’t use く! For that reason, I choose to call this point adverb ✙ なる and adverb ✙ する.

【adverb + なる】

Here are some examples with なる:

① 熱が下がって、気分がだいぶ｛よくなりました｝。

＝fever will go down and then feeling became considerably better

= My fever went down and then I felt much better.

② この仕事が終わったら、少し｛ひまになる｝と思います。

= when work finishes, a little bit, will become free, I think

= I think that when work finishes, I’ll have more time.

③ このごろ仕事が減って、前ほど｛忙しくなくなった｝。

= these days, work decreased and so as much as before, became not busy

= These days, I have less work and so I’m not as busy as before.

④ きみは｛大人になったら｝、｛何になりたい｝の。

= when you become an adult, what want to become

= When you grow up, what do you want to be (and explain)?

Some things to notice:

In example 1, the sense is that when the fever went down, the person’s mood got better by itself.

In example 2, the condition of having more free time arises naturally when work decreases. (ひま can have the connotation of having absolutely nothing to do and can be considered rude by some people. I use the word for myself sometimes, but I never seriously refer to other people as ひま.)

Concerning example 3, the negative form of 忙しい is with 忙しくない. If you want to make THAT into an adverb, it will become 忙しくなく. This was very difficult for me when I was just beginning Japanese.

Finally, Example 4 shows that the question word of 何 can be treated as a noun. This makes sense if you think of it as a placeholder for whatever answer the listener will give. Also, because the speaker uses the word きみ we know that the speaker and listener are close. It would make sense if it were a parent-child relationship. きみ is NOT used with people that you have just met or that you don’t know well!

【adverb + する】

Here are some examples with する:

⑤（父が子どもに）もっと部屋を｛きれいにしなさい｝。

= father to his child: a little bit more the room, make it clean

= Clean up your room a bit more.

⑥ このケーキ、ちょっと大きいから、｛半分にして｝ください。

= this cake, a bit big and so make it half please

= This cake is a bit (too) big so please cut it in half.

⑦ スカートを5センチぐらい｛短かくして｝ください。

= this skirt, about 5 centimeters make it short please

= Please shorten this skirt about 5 centimeters.

Notice that examples 5, 6 and 7 all include someone (other than the speaker) making a thing (a room, a cake, and a skirt) a different condition than the current one. This is when you will want to use adverb + する.

【Conclusion】

The grammar points of adverb ✙ なる and adverb ✙ する are pretty simple to understand. That is why they are considered Level N5. Adverb ✙ なる shows a person or a thing becoming a different condition by itself. Adverb ✙ する shows a person or a thing changing to a different condition by a different person or thing.

Thanks for reading, and see you next time!

Rice & Peace,

– AL (アル)

👋🏾

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this exchange will never not be funny to me

i’ve returned now that my semester is over. let me tell you. grad school and two jobs? something else. my brain is rotted. anyhow time to play more chess and study LANGAUGES WOOOOOO

#god i missed this #free time? hell yeah #now i just need less depression and i'll be UNSTOPPABLE

very tough to realize how much your parent's been hurting you and stabbing open insecurities, and not know what to do like. I dont feel like i could cut her off. I couldnt do that to her. But every time i get so hurt. She opened insecurities that have lasted the past month. I went from confident to progressively more depressed.

Why? Why?

#i dont know what to do #i dont know if its me or what #why does it hurt so much?? i dont know

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i really like this particular godot sprite... the composition is neat ok

musical-attorney

~Ace Attorney Stage Plays~

✨Turnabout Spotlight✨

💃Farewell, My Turnabout💃

◀Investigations: Turnabout Teleportation▶

📀Turnabout Gold Medal📀

🎶The Truth Reborn🎶

⬆Musical⬆

🎹The Truth Reborn Once Again🎹

⬆Musical⬆

♦Prosecutor Miles Edgeworth♦

I think it's a musical??????

left-reminders

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every morning i wake up & get my coffee & i recite in my head this excerpt from ‘invitation,’ by mary oliver: “it is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in the broken world.” & i just say it over & over again until it sticks to my mind for the rest of the day. it is a serious thing. i am alive. i am so lucky. this fresh morning i get the chance to live again & again & again