Answer 2

1.  What is your EQ?
      How can a parent best give their 3-5 year old a strong cognitive foundation?
2.  What is your first answer? (In complete thesis statement format)
       A parent can best help their child exceed cognitively by placing them in a standard preschool on a part time              basis.
3.  What is your second answer? (In complete thesis statement format)
       By allowing a child to stay home with their primary caregiver or a close relative, a parent is                giving a child strong emotional connections that will later improve overall development                      including cognitive.
4.  List three reasons your answer is true with a real-world application for each.

• Daycare can make children aggressive therefore staying home will prevent this.
• A child that doesn't spend a lot of time in the company of strangers will create a more solid connection with their parents.
• A dedicated parent can teach most things a preschool teacher can.

5.  What printed source best supports your answer?
       Child Care in America Fact Sheet
       How a mothers love can change a child's brain
6.  What other source supports your answer?
      Peers, Social Skills, & Stress
7.  Tie this together with a  concluding thought
       So many moms and dads work full time to support their children that not having a child in                  daycare can seem impossible. But having a child stay with family or a parent if possible will                allow them to form closer bonds with those around them.

Blog 15: Independent Component 2 Approval

1.  Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.

For my thirty hours I plan to interview parents about their parenting styles and the way they raised their children. My interview will consist of questions about how they were raised and how that affected the choices they made with there own kids.

2.  Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.
 I will keep transcripts from the interviews and compile them together as evidence.
3.  Explain how this component will help you explore your topic in more depth.
       This component will allow me to get an up close and personal look at parents and how parenting affects development. The reason I want to do this is because A child's home life directly affects the way they learn in school.
4.  Post a log in your Senior Project Hours link and label it "Independent Component 2" log.

Independent Component 1

• LITERAL
   “I, Patty Arellano, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 31  hours and 23 minutes of work.”
  (b) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component.

               My mentor Ms. Adrian and the other teachers at my mentor ship helped me the most in guiding my activities                      and giving me advice on how to make them go more smoothly. Also the article Art Influences Learning by                    Anna Reyner gave me valuable back ground that helped me pick my activities

• (c) Update your hours in your Senior Project Hours link. Make sure it is clearly labeled with hours for individual sessions as well as total hours.

                  Updated Hours Click Here :)

• (d) Explain what you completed.    

                   For my independent component my mentor let me lead the class room once a week by creating activities that  

                  helped the kids learn a concept, idea or practice a skill. So every week I prepared an activity for the class to                        complete.

• INTERPRETIVE 
  Defend your work and explain its significance to your project and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.   

            My work helped me developed my first answer and create the activity for my first lesson. They also helped me get real life insight to where all the kids are developmentally

• APPLIED
  How did the component help you understand the foundation of your topic better?  Please include specific examples to illustrate this. 

         This component helped my come up with my first answer. After doing all these activities with them and seeing how much they learned from doing it I realized that preschool did play a key role in helping kids understand fundamental concepts.