CHILDREN.

Describe children?

Adorable and noisy.

Those are the words from me before I took this course.

What makes you wanted to take ECE course?

*This was the question that is always being asked by our lecturers.

Have you ever thought of why? As for me, before I took this course, I have never work in a center or kindergarten, so, I have never work with a large group of children. But, I did involve myself with my niece and nephew, so, I find it a bit hard to handle them. When I look at my niece and nephew who are age 4 and 5 years old, I always wonder what makes them so happy, giggling with each other over something that we as a teenager or adult see. Besides that, I always find children who are left hander fascinating and I don’t know why. There is something special when a child holds a pencil or pen with their left hand. I always guess it’s because they always uses their left hand to hold things when they are infant. But, my friend told me that it’s because they are gifted. When my niece and nephew cry, I never could figure out what they wanted besides their milk. But, it could be other reasons they cried like being away from their parents which is called the attachment between their parents are strong. This is one thing I learned in ECE course and this is why I wanted to join the ECE field, it's where I learned more about children's development and it was also my ambition to become a teacher.

What was my first impression on Early Childhood Education course?

To tell the truth, I wasn’t expecting much because I didn’t fully posses the passion for children, although I wanted to become a teacher. But, after learning so many subjects I started to have the commitment on becoming a kindergarten educator. Since I’m in my 4^th semester now, I already had done 14 subjects out of 27 subjects which are Foundation of ECE, Children development, Observation and Assessment of Young Children, English and others. These subjects teach me so much on how children develop in each stage, the history of ECE, how to plan and environment, what type of method to use for observation, theories and so on. I never know this course was so wide on studying about children. The lecturers were good enough that they provide us notes, examples, guide us, their own experiences and its fun to listen to their experiences because there are so many things that we won’t expect to happen in the situation. Adding on, what we have learned there are certain things we can't use or apply to children as will be in a different situation. Although there are many assignments to be completed for one subject but, it’s worthy to be done because we enjoy the process to come out with the final product as for children we let them enjoy the process rather we focus on their final product. I'm also really thankful that I took this course because I learned many things beside about children, there were lessons on planning, licensing, health and even special needs and I can't wait for this subject in my later semester ☺.