{"id":64006,"date":"2008-09-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-child-development-center-uses-song-to-educate-students\/"},"modified":"2008-09-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-22T00:00:00","slug":"uri-child-development-center-uses-song-to-educate-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2008\/09\/uri-child-development-center-uses-song-to-educate-students\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 Child Development Center uses song to educate students"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tCommunity sing helps children learn about fairness, equality<\/p>\n


\nKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 September 22, 2008 \u2013 Jack be nimble, Jack be quick. Jack jump over the candlestick. Jill be nimble, jump it too. If Jack can do it, so can you.<\/p>\n


\nWith an anti-bias twist on the classic Mother Goose nursery rhyme, the line is one of the lyrics that will be sung during the 溏心vlog免费B站 Child Development Center Community Sing. It is an example of how the center uses song to educate its children on issues of equality and fairness.<\/p>\n


\nThe event, part of the school\u2019s Diversity Week programming, will be held on Thursday, Sept. 25 at the Multicultural Center on the Kingston campus at 10 a.m. The center \u2013 run through the College of Human Development and Family Studies \u2013 enrolls more than 30 children age 3-5. The children will sing along with teachers, 溏心vlog免费B站 students and other community members at the event. There are 20 children in the preschool program, and 13 more in the PreK\/kindergarten mixed age group. <\/p>\n


\n\u201cOne of the missions of the Child Development Center is to support our children in understanding that there is diversity in the world,\u201d said Sue Warford, coordinator of the Kingston Child Development Center. \u201cWe help teach the children that people are similar in some ways, and different in others.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nThe center holds a singing session each Friday, but Thursday\u2019s event will be special. The songs chosen for the event will incorporate different languages and also will challenge cultural and sexist biases.<\/p>\n


\nThe community sing will open with the Hello Song, in which the children will greet each other in several languages, starting with English, and then incorporating greetings in Chinese, Spanish, French, German and other dialects. Among the other songs will be a compilation from the Mother Goose, Father Gander rhymes. <\/p>\n


\n\tWhile the songs are fun for the children, they also instill strong messages about acceptance and equality of all people. When teaching the songs with the modernized versions of the fairy tales, the teachers ask the children what differences they notice between the original and adapted rhymes.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cFairness and equality is something children can understand at a young age,\u201d Warford said. \u201cThere are messages about being peaceful and kind, and the songs help the children to see the differences people experience. We are teaching them to celebrate diversity.\u201d <\/p>\n


\n\tIt goes beyond learning and understanding the song lyrics. Children in the center also are taught sign language for certain songs. Studies have shown that children are often able to communicate through sign language before they learn to speak.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cThe children learn that people communicate in all different ways,\u201d Warford said. \u201cSigning is something we do all the time, and for the children it is becoming a natural part of life.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tThe community sing is open to the public and is expected to last little more than 30 minutes.

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Community sing helps children learn about fairness, equality KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 September 22, 2008 \u2013 Jack be nimble, Jack be quick. Jack jump over the candlestick. Jill be nimble, jump it too. If Jack can do it, so can you. With an anti-bias twist on the classic Mother Goose nursery rhyme, the line […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}