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Activity Plan for Infants and Toddlers

Teacher Candidate: Viviana Corbett

Date of Scheduled Visit
Name/Address of School: Spring Valley School
Age Group: 2.5-3 year olds
Cooperating Teacher Ms. Smith Room Number 12

Title of the Lesson: Pigs in the Mud

Brief Description of the lesson: This is a Einger painting and pig Eigurine art
project using brown Einger paint and coffee grounds. Children will be using their
Eingers as well as pig Eigurine to play in the mud.
Developmental Focus (What developmental domains or skills will this lesson
address? Are you working to help children achieve a particular milestone?) Am I
focused on helping children learn and grow in a particular domain set in the NYS
Early Learning Standards?)

This lesson will help children learn and grow in a few domains in the NYS Early
Learning Standards, such as Eine motor development (Domain 1), interactions
with peers (Domain 2), and creativity and inventiveness (Domain 3).

Objective(s) (What will children know, or demonstrate as a result of this learning
experience?)

The lesson is an opportunity for the children to practice Eine motor skills and
sensorimotor skills while being creative and having fun with Einger paint and
coffee grinds. The children will also demonstrate social interactions with their
peers.

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Connection to Standards (if applicable) (Be sure to specify which set of standards
you are working with to construct your learning activity)

NYS Early Learning Standards

Domain 1: Physical Well-Being, Health, and Motor Development
Fine motor skills
Sensorimotor skills
Rules and self-regulation

Domain 2: Social and Emotional Development

Interactions with Peers
Interaction with peers, cooperation and negotiation
Adaptive social behavior

Domain 3: Approaches to Learning

Creativity and inventiveness

Domain 4: Cognition and General Knowledge

Properties of ordering: children identify and label shapes

Domain 5: Language, Communication, and Literacy

Listening skills

Relevance/Rationale (Why are the objectives of this lesson important with regard
to supporting the development, growth and learning of infants and toddlers?)

In this lesson, our focus is to offer opportunities to practice many skills that are
developmentally appropriate for childrens ages to 2-3 year olds. For example,
children will develop Eine motor skills, practice listening skills, self-regulation,
negotiation, and taking turns. First and foremost, all of this is accomplished
through a fun and engaging Einger painting project.

Time Needed: approximately 15 minutes.

Instructional Context (Is this activity a whole group learning experience, or an

activity designed for an individual, or small group?)

This activity is designed for small groups of 3 students.

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Procedure (step by step) (will the children be participating in the activity in a

whole group, small group, or individually? How will you get childrens attention?
What will happen during the lesson what will they do? What will you do?)

The lesson will be conveniently located at the art table during free play. There will
be one teacher who will sit at the table to help model and supervise the project.
The teacher will Eirst take brown Einger paint and coffee grinds to create a mud
like texture. To create the mud like texture, the teacher will squeeze an amount of
light glue into a bowl and add a couple of teaspoons of coffee grind and water. The
teacher will have the table covered in a large white paper and will place the piglet
Eigurines on the table. In addition, the teacher will have small samples of straw and
hay for mixing in the texture later on. All of these materials will be pre-prepared
before the activity begins. The teacher will call for children to come and sit down
to participate in this activity. She will Eirst show the children the pig Eigurines and
ask the children, what animal is this? After children respond, then, she will have
the children observe and feel the mud-like texture in a separate bowl. She can ask
them does this feel like mud? The teacher will offer the vocabulary words squishy,
mud, brown, and habitat.

The teacher will explain that the children can take the pig Eigurines and use their
Eingers to have fun in the mud. During this activity, the teacher will encourage
conversation with the toddlers by asking where do the pigs live, where do they eat,
and point out all the different parts of the body on the Eigurine. The children will
have the opportunity to roll the piglet Eigurines in the mud and to create tracks on
the paper.

Towards the end of our painting session the teacher will have straws for the
toddlers to take and place in the mud. The teacher will supervise the toddlers to
make sure toddlers will not place the mud-like textures in their mouth. All of the
materials provided in this activity non-toxic.
Resources/Materials Needed

-3 smocks
-3 mixing bowls
-2 cups of Elmers white liquid glue
-3 cans of shaving cream
- a couple of teaspoons of coffee grinds
-A few drops of brown, red, and yellow paints
- Small tube of brown Einger paint
- 6 pig Eigurines. 3 of the Eigurines will be the mommy pigs. The other 3 will be
piglets.
-1 large sheet of white paper on the childrens table.
- 1 spoon to mix.

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Room modiNications (what changes, if any, will you need to make to the physical
environment to enrich this experience?)

No room changes need to be done. The project will be done at the art table, which
has a table cover and is designed for art projects.

Plan for differentiated instruction/Instructional modiNications (How will you

support the individual needs of children?)

This lesson has been created for a small group activity, yet it can be adjusted to be
done one-on-one if a child needs special attention or more time with the project.

Method of assessing childrens growth and learning (What methods will you
employ to document, or provide evidence of childrens growth and learning? Specify
the assessment tools that will be used to provide you with evidence of childrens
learning, or that objectives have been met)

To provide evidence of childrens growth and learning, the teacher will have a
conversation with the children as they participate in the art project. She will
record and take anecdotal notes both during and after the project. The teacher will
take note to see how the child handled the tactile and sensory aspect of the project
and do they enjoy the project, can they identify the farm animal and anything that
the child talked about while doing the project.

Follow-up/Extension Activities (How can I provide an opportunity to remediate,

reinforce, or expand on students learning today in class?)

When the artwork is dry the teacher and the children can take the project and put
it on the Eloor in the block center and the children can play with the Eigurines in
the mud. This will help reinforce the knowledge of the pigs habitat of the pig
including where the pig lives on the farm. This will expand childrens knowledge
of the sounds that the pigs make, what food the pig eats, and expand upon the
understanding of the roles of the mother pigs and their piglets.

Any additional information that would be helpful for the observer to know:

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Observer feedback on the lesson plan, including commendations and

recommendations for improving aspects of the learning activity