EARLY LEARNING CENTRE LEARNING EXPERIENCE

Student Name: Julia Longo Date: October 26, 2017 Age Group: Kindergarten

Purpose:
Purpose:
The kindergarten students are being introduced to basic graphing this
Reason for
week. They are learning to collect information and display it using a
developing learning graph. Since it is walk to school week this week, the teacher has been
experience. This tallying the number of students that walk, bike, bus or drive to school.
could be in response With Halloween next week I decided to read the Halloween story
to an observation, Pete the Cat: Trick or Pete. After the story the students will be given
discussion with the
an opportunity to choose which costume is their favourite. Once the
site supervisor, students have voted we will construct a bar graph and the students
Ontario Curriculum will determine which costume was liked the most and which was liked
Objective, etc.
the least.
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
 Pete the Cat Trick or Pete- Bar Graph
Learning Experience
Objectives:
What are you
planning in response 1. Children will improve their regulation of attention, emotions
to your purpose? and behavior (2.5) by focusing their attention on the story and
using language to communicate their needs
- Label your
2. Children will learn to collect and organize information (4.6) by
experience (e.g.
Painting with placing a mark on the graph to indicate their choice and using
cars). the graph to reach conclusions
- What are your 3 3. Children will enhance their listening skills (3.6) by listening to
objectives for this the story each with attention and understanding and following
experience? (i.e. directions given for the activity
What interests
are you Who is involved?
extending? What
strengths and 30 students
opportunities for Educator
growth are you
enhancing/suppor Where will it take place?
ting?)
Please Note: You Classroom carpet
should refer to
Materials:
appropriate
pedagogy to Pete the Cat book
support your Markers
discussion around Graph
strengths and
opportunities for Implementation
growth (e.g. ELECT, 1. I will invite all the children to the carpet area
How Does Learning 2. I will introduce the story to the class once everyone is seated
Happen, Ontario and ready
FDK Curriculum,
3. Since it is a flap book I will ask the students to predict what
etc). they think is behind the flaps
4. After the story I will explain what a graph is to the students
5. I will then tell them Pete the Cat is going to help us construct
Describe the our own graph
experience: 6. I will tell the students the four costume options (scary, funny,
princess, superhero)
- Who will be 7. I will ask the students to vote on which of the four is their
involved in the favourite costume
experience? 8. I will then have a student come up and colour in the boxes to
- Where will the
represent the costume
experience take
place? (e.g. 9. Once everyone has chosen their favourite we will count how
Indoors or many students like each costume
outdoors? In the 10. Finally we will write which costume was liked the most and
dramatic centre, which was liked the least
the creative table,
etc).
- List the materials
and resources you Teaching Strategies:
will use
Questions
- Describe the
implementation Questions are a basic instruction tool when teaching children new
of the experience,
things. As I read the story I will ask the students questions about what
with a step by
step description they think is going to happen in the story. Following the story I will ask
- List and describe the students questions like how many students like funny costumes?
2 teaching Or which costume does the class like the most?
strategies. How
will you use Challenges
them? Why have
you chosen these Challenges are an open-ended variation of the do-it signal. It
strategies? motivates children to create their own solutions. I will challenge the
students as I see them analyzing the graph I will say things like show
me how you can write the number 5 or tell me how many students
like scary costumes
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?
Field Supervisor Feedback:
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