Bachelor of Education, Early Childhood Education Degree

Task Title: Observation Table: Environmental

Print in the Classroom

Name: Jawaher Ahmed Alkaabi

Course: EPC 3403 Practicum 3
Instructor: Antoinette Wiseman

(Technology, 2017)

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Observation Table: Environmental Print in the Classroom

Table 1: Documenting Environmental Print
Examples of Environmental Print Purpose Ideas for further development
Numbers 1 100 Demonstrating numbers to children They can add few small white
from 1 100, children can use it as a boards, and use them to write
resource while counting. numbers on them while counting.
They also ca have numbers game
board put the numbers on the
right order.

Changing the day name, the date
Morning Board everyday.
Display the rules of the classroom.
Showing how is the weather outside.
Showing sheikhs of UAE pictures.
Adding more than one picture of
the weather, even if its only sunny
outside students will know more
different weathers.
The teacher can add a reward
system chart to encourage
students behavior.

Kitchen Area Display some fruit pictures. The teacher can add some
different kind of pictures like
vegetables, drinks, meat, bread,
etc. to let the students recognize
what kind of food/ things can be in
the kitchen.

Students Board It displays some of the students The teacher can add more of
work, like their coloring & their students self-drawing, for
worksheets. example let them draw what they
want & describe it to the teacher
and while they talk the teacher
write their description under the
picture (like writing a story about
students drawing).

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Reflections on Observation Task 1: Environmental in the Classroom

Read the questions below and choose (1) one to respond to

1. How does environmental print impact students language development, and their reading
and writing abilities?
- It helps the students practice reading and writing after taking new letter, for example, if they take
the letter a and there was the word apple on the wall, some students will try to read it while
pointing at the letter a, and some other will try to write it or they might just write the letter a without
the rest. Environmental print is a step for students towards reading, it leads them to read and write.
Students can create their own understanding when they see environmental print, for example, one
student saw a logo that represents raising a hand, so he said we should raise our hand to answer
or to ask for something, and so it means that environmental print is a helpful resource for students
in all ages. Students might use the logo to write the word that describes it or read some word that
describes the logo & put it in a useful sentence, for example, we cannot answer without raising
our hand we cannot go to the bathroom without taking permission from the teacher. By
including environmental print students gain symbolic knowledge by their surroundings.