Activity Plan

Preliminary Information:

Name of Student Educator: Gabriela Morillo

Curriculum Area: Science Developmental Domain: Cognitive

Descriptive Title of Activity: Dying Flowers

Indoor: __X____ Outdoor: _________

Age of Children: _2 - 3 years______

Date of Implementation: October 8th, 2016

Resources Used to Prepare Plan (in APA format):

Bertrand, J. (2007). Early learning for every child today a framework for Ontarios early childhood

settings. Toronto, Ont.: [Ministry of children and Youth services].

Childrens Resource or Storybook (in APA format, to be used as part of activity-

before/after/extend/enhance learning):

Gurth, P. (2008). Canada in colours. Toronto: Kids Can Press.

Part I Planning

Rational for the activity (sentence form): The dramatic area is set up as a flower shop. The
children like to handle the flowers, smell it and go around with them. During this activity, children will
develop the following skills:

Social: 1.1. Exchanging ideas, materials nad point of view with others.
Cognitive: 1.6 listening, thinking and responding appropriately as others speak during group time.
4.5 use all senses to gather information.

Physical: 5.3 using droppers

Learning Materials needed:

Napkin flowers
Plastic cups of water
Food coloring
Flower pot
Book
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Description of Set-Up:

The flowers (4) will be placed inside the cups, the book, papers, crayons and the food coloring
will be place on the table to provoke the children.

Guidelines to Foster Self-Regulation:

Listen to others
Wait for your turn
Color only your flower

Health or Safety Considerations:

Make sure the size of the materials are age appropriated.
Make sure there are not cutting edges.

Part II Implementation

Invitation (aimed at getting childrens attention and interest):

The practitioner will show the students a bucket of flowers look my flowers, do you like them?
can you help me to color them?

Teaching Steps (detailed and clear):

1. Invite children to sit around the table. (four at a time)
2. Introduce the materials to the children and Invoke them questions: what do you think will
happen when we put food coloring to the flower? What happens if we mix blue and yellow?
3. Allow children to add color into their flowers and explore with them.
4. After their discoveries, invite children to draw their own picture of the flowers or they can take it
home

Closure:
I like how ___________(childs name) colored his/her flower

Transition:
If your flower is now ______(color) you can go and wash your hands

Ways in which the following are incorporated into this activity:

i) Creativity:
(Explain in sentence form how activity promotes creativity)

The activity promotes creativity by allowing children to color the flowers using different colors

ii) Inclusiveness:
(Explain in sentence form how activity fosters inclusiveness)

This activity foster inclusiveness by gathering together all children and allowing them to express and
color as they wish.

Part III Reflective Practice

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The Learning Story:

Dying flowers

To start with the activity, the practitioner invited the children (4) to come to the table, sit
around and discuss about the materials. I asked them what color is my flower? T and
H said white and I invited them to use the droppers, get some food coloring and color
the flowers. T was the first one to start coloring the flower, he chose yellow, he said my
favorite color. Once he applied the color I asked him What do you think will happen if
you add blue? he got the blue color and said it will change to green, look! besides
that, he poured some color on his white sheet of paper to observe the changes too.
Moreover, H found out that red and yellow makes orange is orange, is orange now and
she continued to put more colors. A decided to paint her whole flower red and dumped
inside the food coloring.

* Social: 1.6 Children exchanged materials and ideas during the activity.

* Language: 3.6 Children understood and followed oral directions.

* Cognition: 4.3 Children colored 3D flowers.

4.5 Children focused their attention while observing the flower changing
colors

* Physical: 5.3 Children used droppers to color the flowers.

Analysis of Learning:
(What did the child (ren) do and understand during this experience?)

During the activity the children expanded their knowledge about primary colors and secondary colors.

Extension of Learning:
(What opportunities will the student educator provide to extend on this experience?)

To extend this activity, the teacher can use real flowers and see how they change or absorve the
color.

C Self-Reflection of Student Educators Learning / Performance

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**Must be completed before the cooperating teachers evaluation

Strengths:
(how did the student impact the success of the activity minimum of 2)
The children were interested in the activity the whole time
The children were excited observing how the flower changed color with every drop they put.

Recommendations:
(what can the student do differently to change, improve, enhance the experience
minimum of 2)
Use real flowers to see how it changes color.
Make bigger flowers so the children can color it more.

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D - Cooperating Teachers Evaluation: (Please include signature and date)

**To be completed after the student has self-reflected.