EARLY LEARNING CENTRE LEARNING EXPERIENCE

Student Name: Julia Longo Date: October 13, 2017 Age Group: Kindergarten

Purpose: Purpose:

Reason for The kindergarten students have been introduced to different letters
developing learning over the course of the week. Yesterday they were introduced to the
experience. This letter S. The kindergarten teacher printed out a number of objects
could be in response that begin with the letter S. She then had them guess some of the
to an observation, pictures and come up and stick them on the chart paper. I decided to
discussion with the create an activity for the students to continue to enhance their
site supervisor, learning of letters as well as different objects that are represented by
Ontario Curriculum each letter. I created a memory matching game and each plate has a
Objective, etc. letter and an image of an object that begins with that letter. The
students will turn all the plates face down and will take turns trying to
Observation find the correct match.

- 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
Learning Experience Memory Matching Alphabet Letters

What are you Objectives:

planning in response
1. Children will enhance their letter recognition (3.11) by
to your purpose?
identifying the letter on the plate and identifying the object
- Label your that begins with the letter
experience (e.g. 2. Children will improve their classification (4.10) as they
Painting with recognize the letters that are the same and match them
cars).
together
- What are your 3
objectives for this 3. Children will cooperate (1.6) with their peers as they take
experience? (i.e. turns flipping over the plates to find the matches
What interests
Who is involved?
are you
extending? What
2 students
strengths and
opportunities for Educator
growth are you
Where will it take place?
enhancing/suppor
ting?) On the kindergarten work table
Please Note: You
should refer to Materials:
appropriate
pedagogy to Paper plates with letters & pictures on them
support your 2 chairs
discussion around Table
strengths and
opportunities for
growth (e.g. ELECT,
How Does Learning
Happen, Ontario
FDK Curriculum,
etc).

Describe the
experience:
- Who will be
involved in the
experience? Implementation
- Where will the 1. I will set up the activity on one of the tables in the room
experience take 2. I will set up 6 plates to start and ensure the students will
place? (e.g. understand the concept before making the activity too difficult
Indoors or
3. I will invite two students at a time to the activity
outdoors? In the
4. I will model the activity for the students before they begin
dramatic centre,
the creative table, 5. As the begin the activity I will observe and look to provide help
etc). 6. I will assist the students who need help identifying the letter or
- List the materials the object on the plate
and resources you 7. As I see that they no longer require support I will gradually
will use remove myself
- Describe the
8. I will observe the students as they interact together and try to
implementation
of the experience, solve any problems that may arise between them
with a step by
step description
- List and describe Teaching Strategies:
2 teaching
strategies. How Performing Task Analysis
will you use
them? Why have With this activity the whole task is trying to match all 26 letters with
you chosen these the correct letter. Instead of presenting all 26 to the students at once,
strategies? I will break the whole task into smaller parts. I will start with six plates
and show the students how to use the activity. Once I notice the
students have matched all six I will gradually add a few more plates
making the task more difficult. This way the children will experience
success throughout the activity.

Challenges

Challenges involve an open-ended variation of the do-it signal.

Challenges motivate children to create their own solutions. As I
observe the students completing the activity I will challenge them by
saying show me how you can find the matching letter A or show
me how you can find three matches
Reflection:

- What went well?

Provide examples
for how you know
it went well.
- What didnt go
well? Provide
examples for how
you know it didnt
go well.
- What did you
learn?
- What might you
do differently
next time you
implement this
same experience
and why?
- Did you have to
make any
adaptations or
modifications? If
so, what were
they?
- What type of
experience might
you plan to
extend on this
one?
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