EARLY LEARNING CENTRE LEARNING EXPERIENCE

Student Name: Sarah Honen Date: October 3, 2017 Age Group: JK-SK

Purpose: Purpose:

Reason for developing Observation:

learning experience. This I observed that the children were very tired of completing work
could be in response to an sheets and wanted to give them the opportunity to experience
observation, discussion with something different.
the site supervisor, Ontario
Curriculum Objective, etc.
Observation
- 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
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?)
Please Note: You should
refer to appropriate
pedagogy to support your
discussion around 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?
- Where will the experience
take place? (e.g. Indoors or
outdoors? In the dramatic
centre, the creative table, Implementation:
etc).
- List the materials and
resources you will use
- Describe the
implementation of the
experience, with a step by
step description
- List and describe 2
teaching strategies. How
will you use them? Why
have you chosen these
strategies?
I am going to conduct a science experiment with the children. The
experiment will take place at the science table with about 4
children at a time. I will show the children all of our ingredients
and explain what we will do with them. After explaining to the
children what we will do with them, I will ask the children what
they think is going to happen when we do this and explain to them
what a hypothesis is.
Objective:
1. During the hypothesis process, the children will further develop
their skills to take another persons point of view (1.8) The
children will listen to what the other children think will happen
and learn to accept the ideas even though they may differ from
theirs.
2. The children will continue to enhance their skills of using
descriptive language to explain, explore, and extend (3.5). The
children will do this by using sentences to describe to describe
what they see happening with the milk and food colouring, as
well as use new vocabulary such as hypothesis.
3. The children will further enhance their questioning skills (4.4)
by asking questions about the science experiment, such as why
things are reacting the way they are.
Materials:
- 1 table
- 4 chairs
- 1 package of food colouring
- 3 table spoons of dish soap
- 1 plastic egg carton to hold ingredients
- 1 clear tupperware container
- 1 cup of milk
- Qtips
1. I will call over 4 children to the table
2. I will explain we are conducting a science experiment and show
them all of the ingredients and steps
3. I will ask all the children what they think is going to happen
4. I will then demonstrate dipping the Q tip into the dish soap,
then the food colouring into the bowl of milk.
Teaching Strategies
1. Perform Task Analysis
I will break down the task into smaller parts for the children
2. Environmental Cues
I will set a certain amount of chairs and Q tips for the children so
they know how many can participate at a time.
2
Reflection: - The children loved the experiment, they loved that they
- What went well? Provide had the choice to pick a colour and watch all of the colours
examples for how you know it mix together in a unique way.
went well. - I learned how important it is to explain things in detail
- What didnt go well? prior, as well as ask the children what they think will
Provide examples for how happen so they will be more enthusiastic to see the
you know it didnt go well. outcome.
- 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?