I observed the structured environment of the classroom in the circle time of morning preschool on Friday February 13, 2009 from 9:00-9:30. The demographics were a little different from the playground experience. There were all Caucasian children except for one Asian American girl. There were 3 to 5 year olds in the class today. This day was different because the day before, a student who is in morning preschool had a seizure, so the students were very curious about what is going on with their friend and what was going on and why they had to go play at the gym during lunch. From those questions, the teacher led a student based discussion about how they were feeling and some stupids were showing us through motions. Some students reenacted what they saw. They read a book about valentines day, but during that we moved into a circle and sang a song about valentines day. After our movement from valentines day song, we played a game that dealt with cupid. In our book we learned about the difference between cupid and the phrase "fall in love" and "shoot an arrow". The whole action was to figure out the actually phrase and not just think about weapons which is what all the boys thought about.
Overall, through play the students learned a lot and got to express their feelings about what they saw the day before with their friend all through play.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment