Welcome to Our Blog!

It is Fall 2010, and we are studying Advanced Child Development Theories with Dr. Kathie Reid at California State University, Fresno. The course is CFS 140, and one of the requirements (which we're completely excited about, by the way...and, yes, Dr. Reid is writing this first entry...) is to read the book, "Einstein Never Used Flash Cards: How Our Children Really Learn -- and Why They Need to Play More and Memorize Less" by Kathy Hirsch-Pasek, Ph.D., and Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Ph.D.

We have each signed up to write a reflection on a chapter from the book, so just about every week, we will be putting those entries up here. You don't want to miss this, as the book is great, and our reflections will be, well, incredibly intellectually stimulating and quite entertaining (reminder: Dr. Reid is writing this entry...). Sometimes, we'll even post pics of ourselves as children. How cool is that?

Before we post the first chapter reflection, though, we'd like to introduce ourselves by our small groups. We work in small groups each week in class (we LOVE this part of class), and Dr. Reid made us create clever names for our groups. Isn't she cool?...So here we are:


Cool Cats
Kasandra, Morgan, Belinda, Denise


Kiddies
Amanda, Mai, Celia


BA-KAS
Brittney, Ally, Susana, Kylie


Rabid Squirrels
Hnou, Caitlin, Kodi, Sarah


RAM-G
Amy, Gustavo, Monique, Ritchiel


Leading Stars
Ashleigh, Maggie, Jackie












That's us. And this is our blog. We hope you come along for the ride with us, as there's a lot to think about and learn from each other, and the Einstein book.

Oh, and we had an extra credit blog title contest...there were so many creative entries, that Dr. Reid combined three of the entries for our blog title. The winners were Jackie (Got Play?), Ritchiel (411), and Belinda (What Children Really Need). We're obviously off to a great start!