GROUP LEARNING EXPERIENCE PLANNING SHEET

Student Name: Amanpreet Jassal Course Code: ECS 4070

Age Group: Kindergartens, 5 years old Date: October 2, 2017

Learning Experience: Gross motor and learning the alphabet

Programming Purpose: Every day, the children practice writing their alphabet one letter at a time. The children also
sing their ABCs and last week the teacher played a tape recording that talks about the sounds each letter makes. I
also noticed that in the gym, the children love playing catch with balls. This activity incorporates a fun component as
well as a learning component.

Objective:

Children will strengthen communication, language, and literacy development in vocabulary (3.3 in the elect
document) as they learn and hear new words. Children will also ask questions about words they do not know and
then be able to define new words.
Children will enhance communication, language, and literacy development in letter recognition (3.11 in the elect
document) as they pick out words that begin with the same letter as the letter on their ball.
Children will strengthen communication, language, and literacy development in listening to others (3.6 in the
elect document) as they wait their turn for the ball to be thrown to them. While they wait, they will listen to whos
turn it is.
Children will enhance their gross motor development in throwing (5.2 in the elect document) as they throw the
balls to the target (their partners mitts).

Materials:

4 catcher mitts
26 balls labelled A-Z (purple, blue, yellow, red, green)

Opening (Introduction): This activity is designed for four people. So I will pick 4 students at a time and take them to
one corner of the gym. Today we are going to play Alphabet catch, listen carefully, because we are going to play
three different games".

Body (Content)

1. I will give each student a catchers mitt.

2. As a warm up, I will begin to throw the balls at each student. The mitts and balls are Velcro so the balls will
stick to the mitt. We will be focusing on the capital letters and each time I throw a ball to the student they
must tell me what letter is on the ball.
3. If a child seems to be struggling I will give them hints such as providing them with sounds.
 4. As the game goes on, I will challenge each student, can you give me an example of what starts with the
letter that is on the ball? and What sound does that letter make?
5. I will allow the children to take turns tossing and catching the balls.
6. I will be using behavior reflections to provide descriptive feedback. Good job Andy, the letter B makes the
sound buh and the word backpack starts with the letter B

Closing (Ending): Lets sing our ABCs as we tidy up.

Transition: After gym class, we are going into the classroom and will sit on the carpet.