EARLY LEARNING CENTRE LEARNING EXPERIENCE

Student Name: Jaskiran Grewal Date: Age Group:

Purpose: Purpose:
Reason for developing learning
experience. This could be in response The purpose of this activity is for the students to feel festive about the
to an observation, discussions with the holiday Halloween and have an academic part to it. I created a mini
site supervisor, Ontario Curriculum Halloween book for the students with pictures to color and the students
Objective, etc. had to add words to the books using cite words. The cite words will be
Observation: provided to the students to make it easier for them to write them in the
book.
- 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
Discussions:
Document the discussion between you
and your site supervisor that led to the
planning
OR
Curriculum Objective:
Describe the curriculum objective
youre aiming to meet/enhance
through this experience
Learning Experience: Objectives:
What are you planning in response to
your purpose? 1. The students will practice the skill (5.2) fine motor skills by
- Label your experience (e.g. Painting using their hands to pick up the pencil and crayons to write
with cars). and draw in the book (Experts from Elect, 2014, p. 35).
- What are your 3 objectives for this 2. The students will practice (3.3) expressive language skills by
experience? (i.e. What interests are using words to write down what picture they see (Experts
you extending? What strengths and from Elect, 2014, p.27).
opportunities for growth are you 3. The students will practice the skill (5.3) the senses by
enhancing/supporting?) looking at the picture and seeing what it is so that they can
Please Note: You should refer to write it down (Experts from Elect, 2014, p. 33).
appropriate pedagogy to support your
discussion around strengths and
opportunities for growth (e.g. ELECT,
How Does Learning Happen, Ontario
FDK Curriculum, etc).
Describe the experience: Materials:
- Who will be involved in the -halloween book
experience? -pencil
- Where will the experience take place? -crayons
(e.g. indoors or outdoors? In the -eraser
dramatic centre, the creative table, -cite word cards
etc).
- List the materials and resources you Implementations:
will use -I will work with the students in groups on 3.
- Describe the implementation of the -I will give the book to each student and explain what to do.
experience, with a step by step -I will tell them that this is a Halloween with some Halloween
related pictures.
description
-The students are to color the picture.
- List and describe 2 teaching
-At the bottom of each page the students are to write, This is a
strategies. How will you use them?
-The cite words will be provided for the students. They just have to
Why have you chosen these strategies? figure out what the picture is and sound it out and write it.

Teaching strategies:

Invitations: The students will be at their centers so I will be inviting

a few students at a time to come do this activity with me.

Modeling: This activity may be confusing at first, so I will model

what to do step-by-step to the students so that they have a clear
understanding of what to do.

Reflection: Reflection:
- What went well? Provide examples
for how you know it went well. The activity went great. All the students were excited to get their own
- What didnt go well? Provide Halloween books. The students had fun coloring in the pictures. Having
examples for how you know it didnt go the cite words there for the students to see and to copy down was a great
well. idea because most of them needed that. Sounding out the words of what
- What did you learn? the picture is was hard for some of the students, but I helped them
stretch out the word so that they can hear all the letters of the word and
- What might you do differently next
write it down. Overall, the students had a lot of fun doing this festive
time you implement this same
activity. Next time, I can add more pictures in the book.
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:
Signature: ______________________________ Date: ______________