EARLY LEARNING CENTRE LEARNING
EXPERIENCE
Student Name: Vanessa Uy
Purpose:
Reason for developing
learning experience. This
could be in response to an
observation, discussion with
the site supervisor, Ontario
Curriculum Objective, etc.
- fiddling with it and thus an activity was created!
Learning Experience
What are you planning in
response to your purpose?
- Label your experience (e.g.
Painting with cars).
- What are your 3 objectives
for this experience? (i.e.
What interests are you
extending? What
strengths and
opportunities for growth
are you
enhancing/supporting?)
Describe the experience:
- Who will be involved in the
experience?
- Where will the experience
take place? (e.g. Indoors
or outdoors? In the
dramatic centre, the
creative table, etc).
- List the materials and
resources you will use
- Describe the
implementation of the
experience, with a step by
Date: March 24, 2017 Age Group: Senior Preschool
Purpose:
I have been trying to find ways to incorporate literacy
throughout the activities in the classroom with the children. My
supervisor has been doing letters of the week and been
practicing tracing and printing with the children. Today, one
child was playing in the cognitive center and became interested
in using the magnetic tray with alphabet letters when I was
Learning Experience: Alphabet Recognition
Objectives:
1. Children will enhance the skill (3.11) Letter Recognition
as the children identify the various letters set on the
magnetic tray and find the corresponding letter on the
alphabet board (ELECT, p. 44)
2. Children will extend their skill (3.10) Phonological
Awareness as the children identify sounds that relate to
the letter and finding other words with the same sound
or letter (ELECT, p. 44)
3. Children will enhance the skill (4.3) Representation by
using the alphabet magnets to generate their current
knowledge and ideas on the particular letter. The child
will also be extend their vocabulary by hearing new
words that correspond with the letter (ELECT, p. 46)
Materials:
- Grey Metal Tray
- Magnetic Alphabet Letters
- Alphabet Board
Implementation:
1. Child saw me fiddling with the magnetic alphabet letters
and noticed I was holding the letter C
2. He recognized the letter and said that it was the letter his

step description
- List and describe 2 teaching
strategies. How will you
use them? Why have you 2 Teaching Strategies:
chosen these strategies?
name started with.
3. I gave him the metal tray and the alphabet letters to use
while I observed what he would do with it.
4. He started putting the letters into one line and asked, If
I add this, what will it say?
5. We were creating silly words out of the letters he mixed.
6. Seeing the alphabet board beside me, I pointed to the C
and pointed to the C on the board and said, C, C is for
Cat!
7. Then the child responded, C is for Collin!
8. The child put another letter on the tray and said it out
loud, O
9. I pointed to the alphabet board and said, O is for
Orange!
10. Then children from the creative arts center yelled, O is
for Octopus! O is for Owl, my favorite
11. Then we continued to look at the alphabets on the tray
and then on the alphabet board.
1. Paraphrase Reflections: By restating what the child
had said, I am solidifying what he has learned and
prompting the child to continue and expand on what
they were saying. When the child says a word that
corresponds with the letter we are doing, it allows the
child to remember it more clearly and gain a sense of
accomplishment when a correct word is said.
2. Guided Practice: Using this opportunity to extend the
childs learning, I continually repeat and ask the same
things over and over so the child is able to learn the new
words and letters. Repetition is the basic premise in
which children are able to learn effectively, and by
repeating what the child says and extending on it, I am
also extending the childs learning experience.

Reflection:
- What went well? Provide This activity is one the most spontaneous/emergent activity Ive
examples for how you implemented in comparison to those Ive had time to think
know it went well. about and implement that afternoon. I thought that this was a
- What didnt go well?
perfect example of extending and enhancing a childs
Provide examples for
how you know it didnt spontaneous learning. Once I realized there was an opportunity
go well. to further this experience, I took it. This activity went well
- What did you learn? because:
 1. The child was able to engage and make new learning
advancements in terms of his literary development. It
was a simple activity that really helped further
vocabulary skills, letter recognition and phonological
awareness. The child could recognize letters and give
words that correspond to the letter and letters he found
difficult he attempted and asked for assistance when he
didnt know.
2. Other children were able to engage in the activity as
well as they yelled words they knew or were familiar in
reference to the letter being discussed.
3. I was able to see and observe where the children/child
- What might you do was at developmentally in terms of progress in literacy
differently next time you and help develop a continuation strategy to further the
implement this same
development with my supervisor.
experience and why?
- Did you have to make any This activity was spontaneous so to say there were parts that
adaptations or didnt go well is difficult because there isnt a criteria I set the
modifications? If so, activity too. I just went along and created an opportunity. The
what were they? only aspect I thought didnt work as well was when we tried
- What type of experience making words using the magnetic alphabet letters. But, I also
might you plan to extend
believe that there were too many skills being used at once so it
on this one?
was overwhelming to add another aspect to the activity.
I learned that it is possible to create opportunities for further
learning and development at any point in the day with children.
They are naturally curious and they discover new things within
a matter of minutes. Its time to extend learning but to create
new opportunities for development is difficult.
Next time I would like to create a more formal cognitive
activity thatll really help enhance and extend the childrens
literacy skills. In addition, Id like to extend the activity as a
group/learning experience rather than an individual one so that
the children learn and engage with one another on their
discoveries.
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