Websites for professionals and parents

1) Association for Prenatal & Perinatal Psychology & Healthhttp://www.birthpsychology.com/This site contains interesting articles on prenatal music. Although not all articles are peer reviewed, this is a good resource for pregnant moms who would like to know more about prenatal (music) education.2) Zero to Threehttp://www.zerotothree.org/A great resource for parents and educators. It contains a

Welcome to the ECE Assembly of NCTE

Considering submitting a proposal to present at NCTE's
100th Anniversary Conference in Orlando, Florida.

Unfortunately the ECE check box which alerts reviewers that you are submitting to the early childhood strand was left off the e-form. NCTE has been working on the problem. In the meantime, if you are submitting a proposal I would urge you to include 'ECE STRAND' at the start of your annotation or description.

Thank you to those of you who have already submitted proposals!
I'll see you in Orlando!
Vivian

Click here for ECEA events that took place at the 2009 Convention.

Year 1 music: Bumblebee

I'm bringing home a baby bumblebee
Won't my mommy be so proud of me
I'm bring home a baby bumblebee
OUCH! It stung me!!

I'm squishing up the baby bumblebee
Won't my mommy be so proud of me
I'm squishing up the baby bumblebee
EEEWWWWW~It's YUCKY!!

I'm wiping off the baby bumblebee
Won't my mommy be so proud of me
I'm wiping off the baby bumblebee
Now my mommy won't be mad at me!
Before we learn

Year 2 World Music - Greece

In the Greek Music unit, we listened to a song called Tik Tik Tak. This song is sung by a Greek pop singer, Glykeria. Children loves the rhythm and would join in everytime when the music sings "tik tik tiki tiki tak," which depicts the beating of of the heart. This is the original version they hear in class.

The Greeks are very musical; they sing their way to all kinds of ceremonies and

Creativity - is it the primary goal or merely a by-product of arts education?

I wish I had more opportunities to explore different kinds of arts as a child. I grew up to be quite musical, but I am NOT AT ALL artistic when it comes to visual arts. To be frank, although I tell children that paint is not dirty and encourage them to mess around with it, I still need to take a deep breath before I get my own hands into paints. When it comes to papier mache, the first thing that