As we will see, the cognitive skills are ones that early childhood teachers value, and that they can encourage deliberately. The other area of research discussed, literacy development, is especially important to educators working with older young children.his chapter is about how the cognitive development of young children can be affected by early childhood programs. It therefore does not describe everything that psychologists know or believe about cognitive development in young children.
However, Polynesians have a long storytelling tradition that includes tales of migratory travel between many of the main island groups--Samoa, Tahiti, etc. The Polynesian Triangle encompasses 16 million square miles of ocean, making Oceania the largest continent on earth. The first person of European descent to arrive in Hawaii was Captain James Cook, who came in 1778. Hawaiians had been living in the islands for more than 1500 years by the time he arrived.
When they arrived in Hawai`i, in addition to the useful plants they brought for food, medicine and building, they also brought ginger (`awapuhi), a fragrant flower used for decoration and adornment. During the settlement period - roughly 750 AD through the 1300s - lei throughout Polynesia were very similar. Types included temporary fragrant lei such as maile and hala as well as non-perishable lei like lei niho palaoa (whale or walrus bone), lei pupu (shell) and lei hulu manu (feather).