Activity 1 Weebly
Activity 1 Weebly
Activity 1 Weebly
EXPERIENCE
Student Name: Jill Elliott Date: January 19th 2017 Age Group: 18-
24 months
Purpose: Purpose:
Reason for developing I developed this learning experience in response
learning experience. to a discussion held with the site supervisor. This
This could be in experience was intended to be play based as I
response to an learned that the YMCA focuses on play based
observation, experiences. I had some knowledge in this from
discussion with the lessons in class. The toddler room had begun to
site supervisor, develop activities that were directly stemmed from
Ontario Curriculum the childs interests. This included dramatic play
Objective, etc. in the home. This week particularly in the kitchen
Observation and in the bedroom. Therefore I decided to create
- Document what you this activity in relation to these areas of the home.
saw and heard Observation
- Document non-verbal Before creating this curriculum activity I had a
communication (i.e.,
chance to observe a typical afternoon at the
body language,
facial expressions YMCA. I could easily recognize the experiences of
and voice tone) the home environment that the YMCA supervisor
- Document in detail: was trying to implement as there were dolls and
who, what, where, blankets and cribs made of cardboard for the
and when children to discover and play with. In the morning
- Documentation should the toddler supervisor informed me that they had
be written in past
demonstrated to the children how to swaddle a
tense, objective,
and in anecdotal baby and then left the materials around the
format dramatic play area of the classroom in order for
OR children to access later in the day. As it happens I
Discussion did not observe the children showing more than a
Document the few minutes of interest in the dolls and cribs in the
discussion between afternoon, I can infer that this may be because
you and your site they had already had time to explore these
supervisor that led to materials in the morning and were now onto their
next area of interest. The children played more
parallel to each other in the dramatic play space
instead of engaging in cooperative/partner play. In
one interaction between the two children at
2:40pm I observed Child A walking around the
classroom, specifically the dramatic play area with
a doll that the supervisor had left out in hand.
the planning
Child B came up from behind and tried to take the
OR
doll away from Child A. Child A did not react but
Curriculum
stared at Child B for a moment before grabbing a
Objective
plastic dinosaur. Child B held the doll for a brief
Describe the
moment then moved to the matching area on the
curriculum objective
snack table. Neither child A or B demonstrated a
youre aiming to
great interest in the doll. Based on these
meet/enhance
observations and past observations of child play, I
through this
thought the kitchen may be of more interest than
experience
the bedroom. Therefore I decided to create the
activity around food.