FCS Child & Healthcare Class

One of my classes was Child & Healthcare. It was taught by Tony Smith, a Child Life Specialist at Primary Childrens Medical Center. Understanding the different developmental stages of children is important so that if they are hospitalized their needs can be met based on their social, emotional and cognitive abilities.

Our final class project was a carnival. Each team had to create age appropriate activities for their assigned group based on their learning level. We had pet rocks, twister, bubbles, infant massage, marshmallow shooting guns, relay races and duct-tape wallets. It was a lot of fun!

Ron Tongaonevai was a classmate who plays football for the U (#59). The children decorated mini-rockets (film canisters) and then catapulted them into the air using alka-seltzer.

David Foster is from SoCal (El Toro HS) and plays on the U basketball team. Their project had a sports/arts & crafts theme. When Maebe first saw David she ran, a common occurrence according to him! When I told her that David was my class friend and asked if she wanted to meet him, she nodded yes. It took her a minute but she eventually warmed up to this great young man.