WAEYC’s Virtual Book-Club
An Early Learning Community Around
Mind in the Making
Join us each month as we introduce one of the seven essential life skills with a blog post summarizing that chapter from the book.
The blog will present key concepts, outline our perspective and discuss questions that arose while reading the book.
In addition, WAEYC will host a virtual book-club discussion on each of the seven skills via webinar. After these sessions,
the learning community will be able to continue their conversations on
WAEYC's Facebook page.
Book Description
Through simple everyday
activities and researched-based methods, Ellen Galinsky shows parents and early learning professionals
in Mind in the Making how to guide children to reach their fullest potential through seven life skills:
Focus and Self Control; Perspective Taking; Communicating; Making Connections; Critical
Thinking; Taking on Challenges; and Self-Directed, Engaged Learning.
Mind in the
Making − Chapter Four: Making Connections
Blog post written by: Krissy Kim
Goodman, Associate Professor of Pierce College
Excerpt: “There are four tasks used to build connections: classification (sorting into groups), seriation (putting in order by attribute), temporal relations (putting in order by time sequence, think ordinal numbers: first, second, third…),
and spatial relations (an awareness of space, think prepositions: on, under, over, beside).
Children should have opportunities to develop their skills in all four of these areas.”
STARS
Credit and OSPI Clock Hours Washington STARS
Credit and
OSPI Clock Hours available for participating in the webinars. There is a $4 processing fee per 1.5 hour webinar.
For Clock Hours, a minimum of two 1.5 hour webinars must be completed
Updated: January 23, 2012
Essential Life Skills for Kids: Perspective Taking
Still Face Experiment
Book Reviews
Savvy Parents “Mostly, though, I appreciated the guilt-free direction of the book, and the practical, ‘I can do that’ ideas.”
Care.com “The best thing is that as a parent you don’t really have to change much of what you’re already doing!
You can build these seven essential skills by taking advantage of situations as they arise and how you react to them to help position your children for success as adults.”
Dr. Michele Borba, An internationally renowned educator, award-winning author, parenting expert, and child and adolescent expert
“My recommendation: get a copy of this book, give a copy to another parent, and recommend that every library and early childhood educator has one on their shelf. Mind in the Making is one of those rare and glorious books that will make a difference on our children’s lives and future”
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