Approaches to Childhood learning – Class activity Record Sheet

After every class Activity write into the record sheet. Add photos throughout the record. 15 records

min required for portfolio. Add lots of images to illustrate your understanding.

Name SR_______________________________

Date:13/11/14 Week

number:

Attended: Yes

Name and image of the Activity

Sweet Jars

Materials used: Paint

Burlap sheets

Love heart stickers

Glue

Time plan: An hour or two

Room and/or equipment requirements: print brush/table

General Aim of activity – What will the final outcome be? ie. ‘To make an aeroplane with cardboard’ box. To make a sweet jar with the children and to let them see jars can be use for anything.

Specific Learning outcomes of the activity – What will be learned by doing the activity? Ie. ‘To use fine motor skills using the scissors’ The children are learn how to print jars, learn to stick thing on to jar

Steps for making or doing activity:

Use images with short captions Step one: pick out a jar

Step two : pick if you are going to print or cover the jar in Burlap sheets and maybe robbing

Step three: gander all the items you will need

Step four: start the activity by print or covering the jars

Step five: finish the jars and leave them to dry

Step six: put the sweets in the jar

Step seven: bring them home

How will the child/ren benefit from the activity?

They learn a lot of new skill and informant. They learn that jars can broke so you teach then to be careful

with the jars. They see that jar can be use for other thing and they come in an size and any shape.

Age group/s: (development level)

4 years and up.

How would you make the activity more inclusive? Principles of universal design

They could make them in groups

How would you adapt the activity to suit outside/inside?

Could make jars in to candle holder or prince holders. You could get double said trap and use sand as well

Simplify this activity:

This activity is quite simplify there not much more you could simplify anymore Variations for the activity: How could you vary the activity? ‘Marbling using foam or egg whites instead’

You could use sand with double side trap and do different patter on them.

You could make the jar for any event coming up e.g. Christmas, Easter ect.

They can be candle holder prince holders

The Learning outcomes linked to Aistear

Exploring and thinking Identity and Belonging Well-being Communicating

6;5;3;2 1;2;4;5 2;5;6;1 1;3;4;6

2;3;4;1 3;6;4;1 2;1;4;3 4;5;6;1

1;3;6;5 1;2;4;3 4;1;6;2 1;2;4;6

3;4;5;1 2;4;6;1 1;3;4;6 6;5;3;1

Other curriculums: Montessori, HiScope..

Safety concerns? If any

This activity is safe the only concern that maybe there is the glass jars broking

Could the activity link to an external activity/group/ outing? ‘Visit to a farm/forest to see/do….’ No this activity couldn’t be link to the external. The you could is maybe to it as group activity

Extensions for the activity: Could science, geography, history, culture, literacy, maths etc, be incorporated into to the activity? How? What changes would you make?

Interactions with children: talk about…. Talk with your child about what they are doing. This will help them understand the physical and mental processes they are going through as well as giving them the vocabulary to describe it. "Look at how the paint splatters like that" You can talk to them and asked them question about the activity we are doing. Asked them question what they think

we could do with the jars.

Problem solving element? Make your child aware of the problem solving involved and ask them questions as needed to help them work out problems themselves, eg. "Why isn't the paint coming out now?", "Is the straw

reaching the paint when the bottle is tipped like that?", "How could you fix that?" The one problem is the jars could broke but you can do a risk task with the children and talk what to do with the jars.

Evaluation of activity: What did think of the activity?

I though the activity was a success as everyone in the group had fun doing and that the you could make

the jars in to different thing like candled holder.

Additional information: (images, books, articles, video links, websites etc.)

Summary of your personal learning in points (at least 4) from doing the activity;

I learn that there lose of activity out there that you could do with the children sweets jar were just

one of the ideas.

I made the sweet jars but I could have made lot of different thing with the jars. E.g. candles

holder.

It great fun make and I think the children would like the activity very much

I know it would be something the parent would use and would like as I would like them.