Welcome to Our Class Blog!

It's Fall 2010, and we're a group of California State University, Fresno students studying Advanced Child Development Theory in Dr. Kathie Reid's CFS 140. She's so cool (and, of course, she's writing this first entry...) that she's having us read David Elkind's book, "The Power of Play." We've each signed up to reflect on a chapter, so almost every week, a few of us will put entries here -- sometimes accompanied by childhood and/or family pictures of us! -- for your reading pleasure. And we're quite sure it will be a pleasure.

Dr. Reid is making us introduce ourselves by our small groups, though. We work in small groups each week in class, and she also made us create clever names for our groups. We told you she was cool...



The Munchies
Ashley, Amber, Berenisse, Chai


The Fabulous Four
Christina, Lai, Emily, Emiley


K-BAM
Katie, Anel, Barbara


KMS (Keep Making Smiles)
Mallory, Kathleen, Sara


Lucky 7
Jessica, Katie, Ana


Students Changing Little Lives
La, Christina, Sarah, Leslie


Purple Ladies
Yvonne, Latoya, Vanesa, Autumn


Blue Cloud 9
Victoria, Mai Houa, Stefani, Kristin










What a group, aye?!!! We're quite confident we're going to have a terrific semester -- challenging, yes, but incredibly rewarding. (You might recall that Dr. Reid is writing this entry...) We look forward to sharing our thoughts on "The Power of Play" with you.

And one more important thing before we put up the first Chapter 1 entry...

We had an extra credit contest to name the blog...and while there were some very creative entries and it was hard to choose, the winner is KATIE!!!