EARLY LEARNING CENTRE LEARNING EXPERIENCE

Student Name: Julia Longo Date: November 24, 2017 Age Group: Kindergarten

Purpose: Purpose:

Reason for After a discussion with my supervisor and reading the students the
developing learning nutrition story yesterday and discussing healthy and unhealthy foods
experience. This we decided to present the students with a worksheet. The worksheet
could be in response will have a number of different foods present and the students will be
to an observation, instructed to identify the healthy foods and the non-healthy foods.
discussion with the With the healthy foods the students will colour them the correct
site supervisor, colour and with the unhealthy foods the students will choose to either
Ontario Curriculum put an X on them or leave them blank. Through this exercise the
Objective, etc. students will learn the names of some of the foods they are unfamiliar
with and they will demonstrate their knowledge of the foods they
Observation should eat regularly versus the foods they should only eat sometimes.

- 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
 Healthy Eating- Activity Sheet
Learning Experience
Objectives:
What are you
planning in response 1. Children will enhance their classification skills (4.10) by
to your purpose? classifying the foods on the sheet by the properties of healthy
versus unhealthy
- Label your 2. Children will enhance their fine motor skills (5.3) specifically
experience (e.g. tool use by properly holding pencils and markers to colour the
Painting with
images on the sheet
cars).
- What are your 3 3. Children will observe (4.5) by naming and describing the
objectives for this images they have observed
experience? (i.e.
Who is involved?
What interests
are you
5 students at a time
extending? What
strengths and Educator
opportunities for
Where will it take place?
growth are you
enhancing/suppor Classroom table
ting?)
Please Note: You Materials:
should refer to
appropriate Nutrition Activity Sheet
pedagogy to Crayons/markers
support your Pencils
discussion around
Implementation
strengths and
opportunities for 1. We will discuss nutrition as a class on the carpet similar to the
growth (e.g. ELECT, story yesterday
How Does Learning 2. After the discussion I will show the students the activity sheet
Happen, Ontario they will be able to complete
FDK Curriculum, 3. I will model how to complete the activity sheet by asking the
etc). students to identify the foods on the sheet
4. I will have the say the name of the food and tell the class
whether it should be coloured or X
Describe the 5. After modeling how to complete the sheet I will invite five
experience: students at a time to the classroom work table and have them
complete the activity
- Who will be
involved in the
experience? Teaching Strategies:
- Where will the
experience take Modeling
place? (e.g.
Children learn by witnessing others complete a task. Before
Indoors or
outdoors? In the presenting the students with the activity I will model it in front of the
dramatic centre, whole class. After modeling the activity I will have one or two
the creative table, students come up and show the class that they understand the
etc). activity.
- List the materials
and resources you Silence
will use
- Describe the I will exercise silence as I witness children complete the activity sheet.
implementation I will observe as they communicate with each other and exchange
of the experience, ideas. If I recognize that they are struggling I will provide them with
with a step by support.
step description
- List and describe
2 teaching
strategies. How
will you use
them? Why have
you chosen these
strategies?
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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