At snack time G1 poured her own juice from a small pitcher with a seal and spout. She held the plastic cup with her right hand and poured with her left hand. G1 broke her graham cracker into six pieces and then tried to fit them back together again like a puzzle. She ate four of the pieces with her right hand and then stood the remaining two pieces on top of each other, holding one piece with each hand. G 1 played with three other girls in and around the log cabin play house. She picked up the plastic hammer with her right hand and hammered the wall. G 1 and the other girls exchanged and shared the tools. G1 ran out of the house to a table, picked up a lantern and ran with the lantern in her right hand back to the play house. A few minutes later she came out of the house with the lantern and set it down. She ran off, tripped, fell, got up and climbed on the play structure for less than one minute and then ran back to the house. G 1 and her friends left the play house and went to the sandbox. G1 left the sandbox to do some jumping and hopping on the sidewalk. Then she returned to the sandbox, pinching a few grains of sand between her thumb and index finger, removing a few grains at a time from one container and dropping the grains into another container.
G1 is well coordinated, both sides of her body work well together. She has good coordination of her arms and legs. She runs, climbs, jumps, and hops appropriate for her age. G1 has good fine motor skills as exhibited with the grains of sand, pouring her juice, holding her glass, breaking her graham cracker, and putting the pieces back together. Her fine motor skills are developing after the gross motor skills, following the proximodistal progression, control of the arms, then hands, then the fingers for fine motor skills. When G1 sharing tools and playing with her friends in the play house, she was participating in Cooperative Play, children play together, either jointly creating an elaborate game or structure or taking turns. G1 was inside with her individual group of six girls and two boys and their teacher for story time, sharing, weather report, and selection of books. G1 listened to the teacher read, Duck in the truck. The teacher keeps G1 attention by pointing out different things on the pages. Then the teacher holds up cards with something wrong in each picture. G1 and a friend on either side of her are enjoying figuring out what is wrong with each picture. G1 is friendly and is not aggressive. She relates well to the teacher and answers questions.
If I were the teacher in this classroom, my plan for tomorrow to further the development or interests of the children Alphabet Bingo, Preschoolers will learn about letters as they play a traditional game of bingo. This activity will be set up in the Literacy and Language. The material is consisting of construction paper, markers or dots and sandwich bags. They can practice Object recognition, Letter recognition, Lower-case alphabet, and Alphabet sounds
I looks like the children are staying busy and having a great time during your observation.I like that the teacher had cards for the children to look at find something wrong with it. I think that is a great way to get the children to use their critical thinking skills and have them interact with the activity.
ReplyDeleteHello Kim, good recognition on all the activities you observed. G1 seems to be at the average stage she should be with all her skills. The alphabet bingo is a fun way to learn your alphabets and i think the children would very much enjoy this because they can all work in a big group and compete with each other at the same time. Maybe you can include a small prize at the end of each game for the winner in order to get the game to be more exciting.
ReplyDeleteHello Kim I agree with you that G1 has well coordination movements, as well as fine and gross motor skills. I noticed you mention she had a graham cracker and cut it into six pieces then tried putting back together. I would say that you should try some different puzzles with her, that might interest G1.
ReplyDeleteChildren love Bingo! They love the song Bingo, they love all bingo games! There is another Bingo game that is really fun as well. I believe it is call Animal Bingo. There is a CD that makes animal noises and the children have to match it the the picture of the animal on their bingo card. I also liked how Joana mentioned other types of puzzles. The girl seemed interested in making her own puzzle so you can maybe encourage this in other ways. She could draw a picture and then cut turning it into a puzzle that her and her friends can put together again. Another thing that needs to be teacher guided is breaking a pot. In my ceramics class one semester, we all made vases and once they were dry, we dropped them. We collected all the pieces. Glazed them different colors and glued it back together. This idea could be simplified and implemented into the classroom.
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