EARLY LEARNING CENTRE LEARNING EXPERIENCE

Student Name: Jaskiran Grewal Date: Age Group:

Purpose: Purpose:
Reason for developing learning
experience. This could be in response Today I did a thanksgiving day craft since thanksgiving is on Monday. I
to an observation, discussions with the made turkeys with the all the students to take home. There was no
site supervisor, Ontario Curriculum academic purpose for this activity, but the students will enhance their
Objective, etc. artistic skills.
Observation:
- Document what you saw and heard
- Document non-verbal communication
(i.e., body language, facial expressions
and voice tone)
- Document in detail: who, what,
where and when
- Documentation should be written in
past tense, objective, and in anecdotal
format
OR
Discussions:
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: Objectives:
What are you planning in response to
your purpose? 1. The students will enhance their (5.2) fine motor skills by
- Label your experience (e.g. Painting using their hands to pick up the pieces and gluing them
with cars). together (Experts from Elect, 2014, p.35).
- What are your 3 objectives for this 2. The students will practice the skill (1.3) parallel play by
experience? (i.e. What interests are doing the activity next to each other and talking to one
you extending? What strengths and another (Experts from Elect, 2014, p.29).
opportunities for growth are you 3. The students will practice the skill (4.5) observing (Experts
enhancing/supporting?) from Elect, 2014, p. 47). Some of the students like to observe
Please Note: You should refer to and see what their peers are doing so they have an idea of
what to do.
appropriate pedagogy to support your
discussion around strengths and
opportunities for growth (e.g. ELECT,
How Does Learning Happen, Ontario
FDK Curriculum, etc).
Describe the experience: Materials:
- Who will be involved in the -construction paper
experience? -glue sticks
- Where will the experience take place? -paper plates
(e.g. indoors or outdoors? In the -crayons
dramatic centre, the creative table, -pencil
etc).
- List the materials and resources you Implementations:
will use -I will work with a small group for this activity. Roughly around 5
- Describe the implementation of the kids at a time.
experience, with a step by step -I will give each student a paper plate and tell him or her to start off
by coloring the entire place brown.
description
-Once they are done the base, I will ask the students to draw the
- List and describe 2 teaching
eyes.
strategies. How will you use them?
-Then I will give each student about 5 feathers and help them glue it
Why have you chosen these strategies? if they need help.
-Lastly, the students will glue the turkeys little feet at the bottom.
-Once the turkeys are done, the students can let them dry and then
they can take them home.

Teaching strategies:

Invitations: I will invite 5 students at a time to work with me. I will

say, Come and work with me, we are going to be making turkeys!

Behavior reflections: As the students are working and doing the

craft, I will make verbal non-judgmental comments what they are
doing. For example, I can say, I like the way you are coloring your
turkey so nicely and neatly or I love the way you are gluing down
the feathers.

Reflection: Reflection:
- What went well? Provide examples
for how you know it went well. This activity went really great. All the students got a chance to make a
- What didnt go well? Provide turkey and got to take it home. The students love doing crafts and were
examples for how you know it didnt go really excited to make their turkeys. All of the students knew what
well. thanksgiving was and were telling me what their plans are for
- What did you learn? thanksgiving. Overall, this activity went really great and it was fun
doing it with all the students.
- What might you do differently next
time you implement this same
experience and why?
- Did you have to make any
adaptations or modifications? If so,
what were they?
- What type of experience might you
plan to extend on this one?
Field Supervisor Feedback:
Signature: ______________________________ Date: ______________