CDA Practice Test 3

You have a child in your school who is allergic to peanut butter so severely that she cannot be in the same room with it.

What should you do?

• Post signs on classroom doorway and main doorway that no peanut products can be brought into the school.

• Limit the types of food that can be brought in for classroom parties and events.

• Work with the parents to assure you know what to do in case she is accidentally exposed to peanut butter.

• All of the above.

When it comes to culturally diverse materials, you should:

• Not have very many, it's confusing for the children.

• Only have materials for the cultures represented by your students.

• Have a variety of culturally diverse materials such as posters, books and music.

• Have every culture represented.

A student of yours gets a new puppy over the weekend and is so excited she has been talking about it all day. At center time, she paints a picture of her puppy at the easel and calls you over to look at it.

Which of the following actions on your part would BEST help her develop her language acquisition and writing skills?

• You write the words "New Dog" on her paper.

• She tells you about the dog and you write what she says then read it back to her.

• You tell her about your dog.

• You do a search on the internet and show her pictures of other dogs like hers.

A little girl in your class, Maria, breaks her arm and is in a cast. Many of your students are curious and some are even fearful of her cast.

What can you do to help the children in your classroom?

• Ask Maria if she's comfortable with talking about what happened and, if so, let the children ask her questions. Help Maria answer them.

• Tell the children what happened and answer any of their questions.

• Tell the children it’s not their concern. Maria is fine.

• Read a book about broken arms.

In the infant/toddler room, Kari has the responsibility of keeping the four toddlers in the room safe, happy, and clean. This is difficult when the other infant room caregiver is late for work. Kari is responsible for attendance and hourly reports to her supervisors. She is afraid that she won't get these done and will be marked down. She puts all of the toddlers in high chairs while she completes her reports. Her co-worker has still not arrived. What would you suggest Kari do in this situation?

• Keep the toddlers in the high chairs until her co-worker arrives

• Engage the toddlers in activities according to the daily plan.

• Leave the toddlers playing on the floor while she calls her co-workers to find out what is happening.

• Give the toddlers extra snacks to keep them busy while she does the next hour's reports.

You a planning a unit on "SNOW". Luckily, there is a lot of snow on the ground and the children are dying to play outside. How can you plan an outdoor lesson on the five senses during your "SNOW" week?

• You can't. It’s too cold. The children should run around for five minutes then go back inside.

• Have the children fill clean buckets with clean snow and bring it inside. Have them test each of their senses using the snow.

• Have the children tell you if the snow is cold or hot.

• Have the children describe the snow to you. Write down all their words for your word wall.

While on the playground, Sally fell off the slide and got a small cut on her knee. You cleaned it with soap and water and Sally continued to play outside.

How should you advise her mother?

• Give her mother a quick call to let her know what happened and let her know Sally is ok.

• It’s a small cut, there is no need to alarm her. Sally will tell her when she gets home.

• Let her know Sally fell because she was wearing sandals and not sneakers. Remind her to get Sally a pair of sneakers.

• Put a note in Sally's book bag.

During lunch, the children can learn to be independent and serve themselves. below should you encourage them to try?

I. Set the table.

II. Pour their own milk.

III. Serve themselves from platters.

IV. Clear the table.

• I and III

• I and IV

• I, II, III, and IV

• I, III and IV

How many adults should be in the classroom at any given time?

• This depends on the activity, the messier the activity, the more adults you will need.

• This depends on age and the number of children in the classroom.

• This depends on the size of the classroom.

• This depends on whether you are indoors or outdoors.

The children are telling you a great story of something that happened on the playground. You want to help them expand on their learning. Which of the below will best do that?

• Have one child tell you what happened during circle time.

• Have the children draw a picture of what happened that day.

• Have the children work together to create a book for the class library that tells the playground story.

• Tell the children to remember the story so they can tell their parents that night.