David Fitch
12-02-2005
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(Student’s Name)
(Date activity will be implemented)
Sky Room______
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___11-15-2005
(Name of Classroom)
(Mentoring Teachers Signature)
(Date Submitted)
Three - Five (Age Group)
A. General Information 1) Name of Activity: Locomotion Source of Idea-Author, text, page number (required)
Rae Pica, Moving and Learning Series: Preschoolers and Kindergartners, Page 109 2) Curriculum Area or Development Area: Music and Movement 3) Brief Description of Activity: The children will pretend to drive a car, gallop, engineer of a train, surf waves, fly a plane, and lie in a big sailboat and wave goodbye. 4) Focus (three's and up): Fall 5) Where? Activity area where activity will be presented: Gross Motor Room 6) When? Approximate "Time Block" activity will be presented. 10:40-11:00 7) Who? Number of children you will be working with at a time-size of group. 14 B.
Activity Planning 1) Why? List purposes of activity. In this activity, children will develop an understanding of different types of transportation. 2) What? List all materials needed (do not include recipe ingredients unless children are making the recipe in the classroom), Materials I will Bring: Materials I can use from Classroom Novel Materials
a) Music CD (Track 18)
a) Gross Motor Room b) CD Player
4) List 3 things that you want the children to understand from this activity.
1) That there are many different types of transportation. 2) That there are many things you can do when the music is playing besides dancing. 3) That music can be fun. 5) As a guiding adult, I will transition into activity with the following open ended question:
I wonder how many different types of transportation there are? 6) During the activity, I will use parallel talk or descriptive statements such as...
1) You are flying a plane. 2) You are galloping. 3) You are surfing. 7) During the activity, 1 will ask the following open-ended questions,
1) I wonder what else you could do to music besides dancing? 2) Can you tell me one type of transportation? 3) Could you show me how to gallop?