TAKE-HOME ACTIVITIES

Intro to Education

Dr. Shirey

EMPACTS project

Fall 2012

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The Group:

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Alex

James

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Where and what?Our group chose to work at the Early Childhood Center in

Springdale. We met with Mrs. Angela DeYoung and Mrs. Audrey Pascual with their preschool class of three to five year olds. Our group’s main focus for our project was to ask the teachers what they need help with in their classroom. We know that teachers are always busy and hardly have extra time. The teacher, Mrs. DeYoung, and her assistant, Mrs. Pascual, said that they would like to do something that would involve the parents. Our group decided to make activity bags that the students can rent from the classroom, and take home and do the activities with their parents. Since the teachers are too busy with their class and lesson plan, our group decided to make the activities ourselves.

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Why? We chose to do these activity bags because it is

very important to involve the parents in the child’s learning process. We felt that by making these activities, the parents would become more encouraged to spend time with their children. Many if not all of the students at the ECC live on a very low income. They also may not be getting the quality attention they need at home. Therefore by making these activities we hope to increase the time spent between the parents and their child. Here are a few of our activities:

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Activity Bag #1: Albert’s Alphabet In this activity the

parents and child will read the book together. After reading or while reading the students can use the letters for letter recognition and fine motor skills.

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Activity Bag #2: Count on Me! In this activity bag,

the student and parent will read the book together. After reading or while reading, the students can use the materials for number recognition, addition, and subtraction.

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Activity Bag #3: If You Give a Moose a Muffin In this activity the

parents and child read the book together and use the materials to help tell the story. This teaches the students to pay attention and uses fine motor skills

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Activity Bag #4: Dog’s Colorful Day In this activity the

family will read the book together. The activity that follows uses skills such as fine motor, color recognition, and sequencing. The child along with their parents can color the spots on the dog as told in the story or however the child likes.

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Activity Bag #5: Silly Sally In this activity bag the

parents and students will read the book and use the included materials to help tell the stories. In this activity the students will increase fine motor skills, sequencing, and teaches them to pay attention.

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Activity Bag #6: Cleo’s Alphabet Book In this activity

book the parent and child is to read the book and place the letters in order on the magnetic board. This teaches the student letter recognition.

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Activity Bag #7: If You Take a Mouse to School In this activity bag

the students along with their parents read the story. After reading, the students can use the play dough to strengthen fine motor skills.

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Activity Bag #8: The Very Hungry Caterpillar In this activity the

family will read the book. After reading the book the students will use the cards to strengthen their skills in sequencing, number recognition, counting, and learning days of the week.

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