Centennial College Early Childhood Education

Student Name: JUNNIFER VILLANUEVA

Agency: CENTENARY SEVEN OAKS CHILD CARE CENTRE

Age range of children: 2 ½ to 5

Centre Focus: AN EMERGENT CURRICULUM

ANECDOTAL OBSERVATION

Every Thursday and Friday during my placement, I observed that the preschool children eat their fruits during snack and lunch time. The centre served different kinds of fruits like apples, bananas, cantaloupe, oranges, peaches and sometimes fruit cocktail.

During snack time the ECE assigned me to serve the children. I asked the children what is the color of the banana? Most of them answered yellow. What is the shape of the apple? Some said round.When I was slicing the apples, we all sang “I like to eat apples and bananas. Most of them ate more than 2 slices while other requested for more. Some days the centre served canned peach slices and fruit cocktail with syrup. The children used their hands while others used the spoon. All the children sipped the juice in the bowl.The children always finished the fruits every snack and lunch time. Lets us guess what fruit we will have for snack tomorrow?

POSSIBLE CUES

Developmental Cues

Able to classify shapes and colors

Able to name the different kinds of fruits

Enjoys singing simple songs (Ages and Stages)

Answers what and where questions? (Ages and Stages)

Physical Development

Can feed self (Ages and Stages)

Can feed self with spoon (Ages and Stages)

Possible Interests Web:

Small group experience (circle) to confirm interest in the topic: (describe all parts of your circle)

I brought a tray of fruits with different color, shape and size for the children to explore using their senses. I started the conversation by asking them what fruits they like. The children liked the fruits they saw on the tray. Other children mentioned fruits like kiwi, strawberry, pear, and etc. We discussed about the colors of the fruit, the children mentioned like yellow, orange, green. I asked them: where can you find fruits? One said farm, other said in the supermarket. What do you do with fruits? One answered: eat, cut, squeeze. Aside from eating, I asked what else we can do with fruits. One answered bake like apple pie and I told the children we can also make juice or fruit shakes. We can also make apple sauce or fruit jams. I let the children feel and touched the fruit and asked them what they feel, one said soft and hard. All the children’s answers and our questions were documented in our web.

Procedure:

Plastic bowlFruits (Apple, banana, grapes, orange, lemon)Table space at the playground where we discuss and explore fruits

Consider the following and fully describe how you INTEND to explore your chosen experience with preschoolers

How will you introduce the experience?

What lures might you use to attract the children?

Preschoolers require support and guidance to fully explore an experience. How will you guide and support their interactions with the materials and each other and with you? COLLABORATION

Closure is important in any planned experience. How will you end the experience with the children? What guidance strategies would be helpful to use?

BEFORE YOU BEGIN YOUR 6 EXPERIENCES IN THE PROJECT, COMPLETE THIS GROUP (CIRCLE) TO BE SURE OF THE CHILDREN’S INTEREST IN THE TOPICArrange a date, and time to implement your chosen experience using the elements you defined in your procedure.

Evaluation and Reflection:

NOW THAT YOU HAVE COMPLETED THIS GROUP EXPERIENCE (CIRCLE):

How did it go? ARE THE CHILDREN STILL INTERESTED IN THE TOPIC?

It went really well, the children seem interested in further exploration of the fruits.

WILL THE INQUIRY PROCESS WORK WITH THIS TOPIC? WHY OR WHY NOT?

This will work for several reasons,

Allow the children to explore the fruits by themselves, but allows collaboration with the observer.

Lots of fruits are easily available.

Allow the children to discover and explore the different textures and taste of the fruit and what can we make out of fruit. If question arise, the observer can assist the children by guiding them the answers.

This activity can be ongoing because we can provide lots of opportunities to explore in curriculum areas such as science, math, sensory, dramatic, art and language.

We have enough time and available equipments to explore the fruits.

.Rationale:

After observing the children and speaking with them at our playground table, I discovered that they are very interested in fruits.

Your children are naturally curious and will have many opportunities over several weeks to explore fruits, conduct supervised experiments and deepens their understanding of fruits. The activities will help the children develop their cognitive, language, sensory, math and drama skills. Let the children explore and collaborate by asking open ended questions and through scaffolding we will be able to make the activities interesting and fun.

This is a natural part of preschool development. You will be amazed at what the children know and learn during our explorationsof preschool development.

During this time the children will:

Make fruit shakes Make fruit kebobs (children’s idea) Sort fruits according to shapes and colors Sing songs and read books about fruits Taste, feel, smell different kinds of fruits Puppet show about fruits Participate in drama (fruit store) Draw fruits of children’s ideas

We will be posting evidence and samples of our work. Please check in often and share this experiment with your children!

Junnifer

Kwhl Chart

K(know) W(what do we want to know

H(how will we learn it

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Different colorsGreen/ Red

What are the different colors?

Math activity by sorting different

colors

Learn numbers when measuring the fruits using tape measure.Learn to sort big and small fruits.Learn sorting different colors of fruits.Learn to count the fruits that we had on our activity.

Soft and hard What are the different textures?

Sensory activity by touching,

feeling, squeezing the

fruits.

In making fruit kebab, children learn the different textures of fruit, like soft and hard by touching and holding.Learn to use wood skewer to make fruit kebabs.Learn different taste like sweet and sour.

Sweet and sour How does the lemon taste? / grapes taste?

Sensory activity by tasting.

Learn different taste of fruits like sweet and sour.

Small and round Compare the shapes of the

fruit.

Art activity by making fruit

kebabs or drawing the fruit

on the paper.

Learn an art in making fruit kebabs by designing how to make and what sequence of fruit they will put first.Learn the different shapes of cut fruits.Learn to trace fruits on papers.

Seeds Which fruits have seeds?

Science activity by growing the

different kinds of seeds and

classifying seeds.

Learn which fruits have seed like apples, avocado, etc.Learn the different sizes of seeds like small and big seeds.Learn different shapes of seeds like round and flat.

Tree Which fruits come from a

tree?

Language activity by using books showing

different kinds of fruit trees.

Learn through books the different kinds of fruits.Learn where plants grow, like garden.Learn that fruit plants needs water.Learn more vocabularies in the story.

Farm and supermarket

Where can we find fruits?

Dramatic play by doing fruit store and puppet show

of fruits.

Learn to tell story in puppet show.Learn the different vitamins we get from fruits.Learn to role play and play pretend to develop language.

Bake,Juice and fruit

shakes

What can we make out of

fruits?

Science activity by making fruit

shakes, juice and baking.

Learn how to make banana shake.Learn that when we grind the ice and mix with milk it will become liquid (shake).

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