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Branches as well as individual contributions will be published in a future issue of Our Life. The UNWLA Social Welfare Committee is extremely grateful to everyone for understanding the needs of our brothers and sisters who suffered from this terrible calamity and for responding so quickly and so generously to our appeal for assistance. The UNWLA Executive Committee and Social Welfare Chair Lidia Czemyk ask people of good will to continue to help us help the flood victims. The Ukrainian National Women's League of America, Inc., is a non-profit tax exempt organization under IRS Code Section 501(c)(3)-GIN 1874. Your tax deductible donations will be appreciated. Please make checks payable to: UNWLA, Inc. Welfare Fund 108 Second Avenue New York, NY 10003 Attention: Lidia Czernyk, UNWLA Social Welfare Chair. You can also reach us on the Internet at unwla@worldnet.att.net EDUCATION, NURTURING, INTELLIGENCE AND THE UKRAINIAN PRESCHOOL: VYKHOVANNIA by Irene Pyskir Oleksiuk UNWLA Education Committee Chair Most parents want the best education for their children. They are very careful in selecting good private schools and are vigilant about what is going on in the public school their child attends. However, before children attend formal school or even preschool, their brains are already absorbing everything in their environment. According to recent studies on infant's brains, brain cells multiply at a rapid pace. It is therefore necessary to have excellent parenting and provide children with all sorts of positive stimuli in infancy and childhood. We Ukrainians usually bring up our children speaking Ukrainian first, knowing that English will be learned soon enough. In some homes children also learn English side by side with Ukrainian. Though most of us instinctively and through experience know that children grasp information quickly, scientists have now corroborated this fact through electronic brain wave scanning. They are also finding out that the human brain is capable of even more than anyone imagined. In many parts of the world, learning several languages at home and in school is nothing unusual. It is part of a good curriculum in school or a practical matter in mixed marriages, a requirement for work, or a necessity for getting along with neighbors across borders. It is only recently that teaching languages other than English has become a practice in lower grades in many schools in the United States. Schools are also revamping their curricula to balance content learning with character, emotional, spiritual or whole person education (nurturing of the whole child). Crime, divorce, poor parenting have all taken their toll. From the president down, everyone wants to correct the situation through education. Head Start, the early intervention program initiated in the 1960s, is making a comeback. Though costly, it is a program beneficial to children. Early education is also becoming quite common, beneficial and even necessary since so many mothers work. A good preschool stimulates all of a child's faculties and senses. It is a springboard for socialization skills and sharing, language skills and motor skills, and stimulates a child's imagination and creativity. Luckily, the UNWLA operates many preschools throughout the U.S. Unfortunately, attendance has receded in recent years and the reasons are many. However, given the information above, we should all rethink their usefulness in preparing our preschoolers for school and life in general. The benefits of a child attending a stimulating sadochok (little garden) or svitlychka (little light or enlightenment) are endless. What better place for a preschooler to be! First, children in preschool learn the sounds and symbols of the Ukrainian language. They play and sing, learning new words, concepts and experiences. Preschoolers develop their small muscles by drawing, painting and manipulating many different objects. They count their blocks, they build with them, knock them down, laugh and build again alongside their peers. They learn cooperation and form bonds of friendship which may begin a life long relationship. Spiritual and emotional attachments to Ukrainian holidays, heroes, traditions, music and the arts are inculcated early. Both intellectual and emotional learning takes place. At the same time, children are developing their language skills with new words and new songs, enriching their brain power. Secondly, a good start in Ukrainian preschool leads to a school of Ukrainian studies. Here, of course, there is more language, culture and histoiy, new 18 НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ”, БЕРЕЗЕНЬ 1999 Видання C оюзу Українок A мерики - перевидано в електронному форматі в 2012 році . A рхів C У A - Ню Йорк , Н . Й . C Ш A.
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