Preschool project final phase

1. 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)

2. Possible Interests Web:

3. 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 bowl
Fruits (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?

4.  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 TOPIC
Arrange 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.

5. 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.

6. .
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 explorations
of 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

7. Kwhl Chart

K(know) W(what do we
want to know
H(how will we
learn it
L

Different colors
Green/ 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.

8. 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).

9. DOCUMENTATIONS