Early Childhood Education Classes

Hi :) I don't now if I mentioned this, but I am also signed up to take a few classes in Early Childhood Education and Development. These are courses that all teachers in Wisconsin, who teach ECE, have to take. They are actually correspondence classes so you sign up and they send you a packet in the mail that you must read, complete, and send back to them to get graded before you can pass.

The classes are though The Education Station group and the titles of the three I'm taking are: Introduction to the Child Care Profession, Skills and Strategies for the Child Care Teacher, and Fundamentals of Infant and Toddler Care. I'm excited to take the classes, especially for the infant and toddler care because I don't have much work experience with that age group, and I will be assisting with one year olds at the preschool. AND, the cool thing is, now that I'm permanent status at Creative Learning Preschool they pay for me to take these classes. I was going to pay for them my self but then I was reading my contract last week and found out the school will pay for them. Very cool to have your education paid for. Not to mention that once I am done with the classes, my pay goes up like 5 extra dollars an hour! which is really great.

So, I will write more about this later an dhow my classes are going.

Tomorrow Mark and I are going to a local park for a dog owners picnic. It's specifically for Aussie Shepard owners. So we will meet other dog owners and ask about breeders and such, not to mention play with some dogs. Here are some pictures, oohhhh they are super cute!