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The California Child Care Resource & Referral Network (Network)'s origins began in San Francisco in the early 1970s. Patty Siegel was a mother with three young children. She, along with 11 other families, started the Yellow Garage playgroup.
Froebel (1782–1852) introduced the concept of first-hand experiences for young children in children's play (Wood and Attfield 2005). Dewey (1589–1952) also believed it was important to provide different experiences to enable children's learning through play (Platz and Arellano 2011).
Margaret McMillan is regarded as the originator of the nursery school concept, although when state support became available for nursery schools after 1918 the majority of the recognized nursery schools were former free kindergartens.
U.S. child care began as a charity enterprise in the late 19th century when settlement houses – which provided services and education in poor communities – opened nurseries to keep the children of factory workers in urban industrial centers safe while their mothers toiled.
In 1873, Wisconsin started the first four-year-old pre-kindergarten program.
Smilansky and Shefatya said that functional play is “based on children's need to activate his physical organism”. Conditional play starts around early childhood and lasts until adulthood and involves sensorimotor activities, where children begin using their creativity.
Henry Caldwell Cook (1886–1939) was a British educator known for his book The Play Way, which contended that doing was a better learning method than reading and listening, and that youth study through play.
In Vygotsky's cultural-historical theory, play is an important part of early childhood. Vygotsky believed that play promotes cognitive, social, and emotional development in children.
McMillan invented the term nursery school so that children would be nurtured via a daily inspection, outdoor learning, play, and healthy, balanced nutrition. She wanted to establish a method for educating young children that combined all these elements with well-trained teachers.
Robert Owen (1771-1858) established the first nursery school in the UK for the children of cotton mill workers in 1816. Children aged one to six were cared for while their parents and older siblings worked.
1914The nursery opened its doors in late March of 1914, and “the children who first entered the camp-87 in all-the eldest was five, and the youngest three months old” came from the surrounding community in Deptford (McMillan 1917, p.
Although some historians credit St. Francis with creating the first crèche, scholars such as Powell and Nesta De Robeck instead stress his influence on the tradition rather than his creation of it.
In her book The Christmas Presepio in Italy, De Robeck writes, “St. Francis brings us to a turning point in the history of the presepio (crèche) for, though popular tradition is mistaken in thinking of him as its originator, nevertheless it was he who took the old custom and gave it the stamp of his own irresistible genius.”
Accounts are unclear whether a live baby or a wooden or plaster representation of Christ was used in first Greccio nativity scene, but accounts are clear that live cow and donkey were there at the cave along with a live Mary and Joseph.