The HCC ECIE faculty, staff, and guests are off to Finland and Sweden to learn more about their educational system. Follow us here to see where we go and what we are doing. First stop, Helsinki. 

Take a look at a short video that shows the connection between the HCC Early Childhood Inclusive Education Program and China. Click this link From Bridgeport to Beijing

But there are some interesting apps out there that can supplement lap reading. 

Can you find some and post the links?

The Housatonic Community College Early Childhood Inclusive Education Program students can Stay Close but Go Far. Two HCC ECIE graduates just returned from 6 months in China where they taught in an bilingual, bicultural preschool. Two more students have just arrived in Beijing to work at the same preschool for a year. We will follow their journey here. Then later this semester, several professors, students, teachers and directors will be going to Scandinavia to learn about the preschool systems in place in Finland and Sweden. Please come back often and let us know what you think about our quest to learn more about early care and education globally.

Questions

Read this article about the decline of play and comment below.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/rweb/wildcard/the-decline-of-play-in-preschoolers--and-the-rise-in-sensory-issues/2015/09/01/f9c8900f3bc452faa62abaf009cfe4ff_story.html