EARLY LEARNING CENTRE LEARNING

EXPERIENCE
Student Name: Krystina Telesca Date: September 14, 2017 Age Group: JK/SK 3-6

Purpose: Reason for Purpose:

developing learning
The purpose of this experience is to allow children to continue to
experience. This could be
practice their shapes, and be able to connect them to everyday
in response to an
observation, discussion
realities. My placement supervisor and I had a discussion based on a
with the site supervisor, large group activity, and decided to further the childrens
Ontario Curriculum understanding of shapes through a small group activity.
Objective, etc.
Observation:
Observation
The children were participating in an afternoon large group math
- Document what you activity that consisted of sitting on the carpet, and recognizing
saw and heard shapes as well as determining how many sides a shape had. All of
- Document non-verbal
communication (i.e., the children counted along with the teacher, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6! A
body language, facial hexagon has 6 sides! Said all of the children enthusiastically. The
expressions and voice teacher then showed a photo of a cone, child A screamed out ice
tone) cream cone! Thats an ice cream cone!
- Document in detail:
who, what, where, and Discussion
when
- Documentation should Following the large group activity, my supervising teacher and I had
be written in past
tense, objective, and in a conversation based on the reactions of the children during the
anecdotal format experience. She thought it might be a good idea for me to create an
OR activity based on shapes, so that the children could practice and
begin to master their understanding.
Discussion

Document the discussion

between you and your site
supervisor that led to the
planning

OR

Curriculum Objective
Describe the curriculum
objective youre aiming
to meet/enhance through
this experience

Learning Experience

What are you planning in Connecting shapes to our environment

response to your purpose?
I will create an experience based on shapes and aim to encourage
- Label your experience children to relate them to their everyday surroundings. I will cut out
(e.g. Painting with
cars). 4 shapes, a triangle, a circle, a square, and a rectangle, and I will
- What are your 3 place them out on a table. This activity will take place inside during
objectives for this centers time in the afternoon. It will take place at a small group
experience? (i.e. What table, so 5 or 6 children can participate at a time. I will ask the
interests are you
extending? What children to explore the classroom and find different toys or
strengths and materials that match the shapes on the table, and then place the
opportunities for objects in the right category on the table. We will then talk about
growth are you any other shapes that we think we see on a daily basis in our
enhancing/supporting?)
Please Note: You everyday environments.
should refer to
Materials:
appropriate pedagogy
to support your - Cut out shapes: triangle, circle, square, rectangle
discussion around - Marker
strengths and
opportunities for Implementation:
growth (e.g. ELECT,
How Does Learning 1. I will invite the children over to the small table and ask them
Happen, Ontario FDK to sit down and listen.
Curriculum, etc). 2. I will then go through each shape, and ask the children to
name them for me so they become familiar before the
experience commences. We will also count how many sides
Describe the experience: each shape has.
3. I will place the shapes on different parts of the table and
- Who will be involved
in the experience? explain to the children that they are different categories.
- Where will the 4. I will then ask the children to explore the classroom and find
experience take place? toys and materials that match the shapes, and place them in
(e.g. Indoors or their right spot on the table.
outdoors? In the
 dramatic centre, the 5. I will model for the children by taking a block and placing it
creative table, etc). in the rectangle category, and then I will tell the children to
- List the materials and
resources you will use start!
- Describe the
implementation of the
experience, with a step Objectives
by step description
- List and describe 2 1. The children will (Demonstrating Literacy and Math
teaching strategies. Behaviours:17.1) practice explore and compare attributes and
How will you use
properties of traditional and nontraditional two-dimensional
them? Why have you
chosen these shapes through finding different shapes throughout their
strategies? environments, comparing them to everyday realities, and
understanding the number of sides each shape has (The
Kindergarten Program, 2016, pg.232).
2. The children will (Demonstrating Literacy and Math
Behaviours: 20.5) investigate and describe how objects can be
collected, grouped and organized according to similarities and
differences, as they classify materials and toys in the classroom
and compare them to traditional shapes (The Kindergarten
Program, 2016, pg.178).
3. The children will (Demonstrating Literacy and Math
Behaviours: 11.6) use prior knowledge to make connections to
help them understand a diverse range of materials. Children will
accomplish this through making connections between
traditional shapes and comparing them to everyday
surroundings. For example: My house is the shape of a square
(The Kindergarten Program, 2016, pg.209).

Teaching Strategies

1. Invitations: I will invite the children over to my table by

saying Does anyone want to play a shape game with me?
This will encourage the children to become curious and want to
engage in my game experience with me.
2. Modelling: I will model to the children how to classify an
everyday object with my shape category by finding my own toy
within the classroom, and explaining to them what shape it is
and which category it belongs in.