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Appendix 3B Copy/Excerpts from Total Learning Environment Documentation

This was from the Unit Professional Experience 3-5 Years

This Appendix Version only includes for Os attendance days (and/or area O was involved).
This is certain Wednesdays, every Thursdays and Fridays.

*Order of setups were in:

Week for 15-19 May: Outdoor Sand Pit Area

Week for 22-26 May: Indoor Play Room Pretend Play corner

Week for 29-2 June: Area from Indoor (Literacy Room etc.) and Outdoor (Middle
yard grass area)

Sandpit Area Setup (For Outdoors, the Week 15-19 May)

Setup Rationale and what was Popularity/5
observed (1- Highest)
Milkshake Shop Setup - Extended from childrens 1
interest in animal farm,
children have been
engaging in sensory
activities of making
milkshakes.
- This setup will invite
childrens engagement in
making milkshakes and
selling to customers
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Post Office Resources that changed/modified over the week (For Indoors, Week 22-
26 May)
Set up Initial Rationale Reason of Change

Wednesday: Added cash register, - This day was for Revisiting the idea
telephone, letter templates, stamped more pretend-play of stamps (having a
envelopes, print sign for pac k kage and focus. wider variety in
price (with counting star visuals per - Cashiers were most design) may attract
price). Small bag was also added as popular, children more children
post bag. loved to engage in
serving their Update the
customers environmental print
- The small bag was for price make it
used as prop for more simple and
travelling attractive
- Telephones were
popular to engage in Possibly use play
office play: calling money to scaffold
one another and/or about the ideas of
families money and price.
Thursday: Added updated - Play money for $1, Letter writing has
environmental print with visuals for: $5 and $10 were been generally the
envelope, stamp and parcel. Printed printed to use in most popular.
parcel image cards to scaffold cashier
swapping/sharing. Each item showed a - Environmental print Possibly create
link to price toy money. Stamps to was used to support additional print
stick onto envelope. children who wished resources that
to purchase a stamp encourage
(most likely). vocabulary
- The sign also building
introduced children
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to how to read a Possibly design

table. their own stamps
- Stamps were popular
to hold in hand and Add Sign for time
take a closer look. operating hours
- Some children
engaged in creative Add Open/Closed
story telling by sign (printed)
looking at pictures of
stamps.
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Friday: Added print for open/closed sign with - Provided choice Provide
operating hours, textas anad pencils, Mom and for designing opportunity to
Dad envelpes (printed and with visuals), three their own stamps extend print and
types of designs for envelopes. - Added stamps on oral vocabulary of
letter templated words
for more
attractive design
- Mom and Dad
Envelopes where
pasted on the
front of the
Envelope,
signifying the
place for the
attendee.
- Post Office was
again popular to
problem solve
how to put the
letter inside.
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Fruits and Vegetable Shop Resources that changed/modified over the week (For Indoors, 29
May-2 June)
Setup: Literacy Room (and/or home corner Initial Rationale Reason of
depending on day) Change
Wednesday: This setup was Children
formulated in engaged in
Vegetable and fruit shop setup: Print for shop logo, consideration of assigning
open/close and operating hours pop-up, two plates childrens interest in responsible role
with pop-up for vegetables and fruit, shopping shopping play and their per child. (Shop
baskets, childrens apron for shop assistant interest to recite print assistant,
words. customers and
announcer
Baskets visually telling when the
signified customers, shop is
aprons for shop open/closed).
assistant. Open and
close sign was to Pretend play in
enforce the idea of time paying, reciting
(availability price and
/unavailability to buy exchanging
food). Also to possibly change was
engage in reading evident.
numerical symbols.
Implement play
money and name
tags for aprons.
Thursday: The electronic cashier Provide a board
was selected for of list of food in
Further added: play money, name tag My name children to build their one panel/paper
is print and clips to hold onto apron, pencils to awareness in cash and (print with
write name, velcro name board of childrens names credit card (electronic visuals).
(not in photo). Electronic/beeping cashier toy with money).
scanner, toy credit card.
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Play money of value

with $1, $5 and $10
were set.

Large panel of market

sign was printed to
attract childrens
attention and interest.
Friday: Children have enjoyed N/A
pointing at the visual
In addition to Thursday setup, added Word List of then verbalising en/or
Fruit, Vegetables and Dairy asking for a educator-
child scaffolding
opportunity, asking
how to read.

Children have been

aware of verbal recital
of these names however
I believed they have
had rather limited
exposure to print for
this regard. I believed
this may be a potential
learning experience.