EARLY LEARNING CENTRE LEARNING EXPERIENCE

Student Name: Xheni Lila Date: October 5, 2017 Age Group: Kindergarten Room (4-5
years old)

Purpose: Purpose:

Reason for developing learning
experience. This could be in
response to an observation,
discussion with the site
supervisor, Ontario Curriculum
Objective, etc.
Observation
With thanksgiving coming up the teacher and I wanted to focus
on a Thanksgiving theme and creating an art activity for the
children to take home. They were also learning about turkeys,
and learning new songs, creating a turkey would be a follow up
of what they learned throughout the week.

- 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

Discussion

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 Turkey Art

What are you planning in 3 Objectives

response to your purpose?
Who will be involved in the experience?
- Label your experience
(e.g. Painting with cars). All of the children will be able to participate in this experience.
- What are your 3
objectives for this Where will the experience take place?
experience? (i.e. What
The activity will take place indoors, at the art table.
interests are you
extending? What strengths Materials Used
and opportunities for
growth are you - 30 brown construction papers
enhancing/supporting?) - 60 eyes
Please Note: You should
- 30 orange triangle noses
refer to appropriate
- 30 red gizzards
pedagogy to support your
- Constriction paper (red, orange, and yellow) to make
discussion around
feathers
strengths and
- Streamers
opportunities for growth
- Scissors
(e.g. ELECT, How Does
- String
Learning Happen, Ontario
FDK Curriculum, etc). How will the activity be implemented?

Describe the experience: I will ask the children to stand up as we will be learning a new
song/dance. I will introduce the activity by doing a Turkey Pokey
- Who will be involved in
(Hokey Pokey) put your right wing in, put your right wing out,
the experience?
- Where will the experience put your left wing in, put your left wing out, etc, for 5 times. I
take place? (e.g. Indoors later will show them an already made turkey and will explain
or outdoors? In the how and where to glue and what they will need to create their
dramatic centre, the turkey. I will then have a group of children sit with me to
creative table, etc). complete their turkey.
- List the materials and
resources you will use Teaching Strategies
- Describe the
implementation of the 1) Modeling I will be modeling how to do the activity, and
experience, with a step by where everything should be glued to create their turkey,
step description as the children learn best by imitating.
- List and describe 2
2) Do-It signals By giving them straightforward
teaching strategies. How
will you use them? Why instructions the children will be able have a clear idea of
have you chosen these what they need to do.
strategies?