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November 10th & November 11th 

pool building
pool building 2
Letter Print
Brown Notebooks

November 10th 

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Purpose:

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  • In the classroom, my teacher has used Kool-Aid powder as a sensory tool aid for children to learn how to write certain things, such as their name.
    There will be their name on the paper, then they will go over with glue and sprinkle the Koo- Aid powder and let it dry. Once it is dry it becomes an access card that the children can reference at any time to write their name. They simply trace over the Kool-Aid, so they know how the letter feels and which way to write it.

  • My teacher wanted to extend this idea to do numbers to have in the classroom. However, she wanted to do it together with the children so that they would remember the activity and know to reference the cards.

  • Having the independent reference such as these number cards is a goal of mine for my culminating change in the classroom proposal. 

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The Experience:

  • This experience will take place at the gathering area in the morning before outdoor play

  • There will be card stock paper with the numbers already printed on them

  • The student teacher and I will place the sticky putty glue on each number and hand them to the children in order for them to apply the Kool-Aid powder

  • Once they are finished, they must line the numbers in order against the wall and ask for another number.

  • We will count altogether once the numbers are lined up against the wall.

  • Materials:
    > Cardstock cut into rectangle pieces (enough for 20)
    > Sticky putty glue (2 tubes, one for each educator)
    > Kool-Aid package of powder
    > Large plate to put in the center of the group so children can access the powder 

November 11th 

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Purpose:

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  • When I arrived to placement on Thursday, two of the boys in my class informed me that they wanted to change the dramatic area into a pool and they wanted my help.

  • I was immediately excited about the idea and we started to work together to plan out what it was that we wanted to do.

  • We worked on a plan together, and as we were starting more of the students came over and asked if they could have a job to help us transform the area into a swimming pool where there would be a lifeguard, lessons, and of course shallow and deep ends.

  • The children would talk about how they would have swimming lessons outside of school and they were applying those experiences, knowledge and vocabulary in the classroom. 

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The Experience:

  • The experience took place in the dramatic area. We came together and planned as a group of three on what it was that we wanted to add to the area and the materials that we needed to make that happen

  • As more children came, we asked them what it was that they wanted to add, if they had a new idea, or we split them into teams to help a project or aspect that we already had in motion

  • At this stage we also discussed different terms and aspects of the pool and what we could use to make them. Example, thermometer, or shallow and deep end signs

  • The materials we needed were:

  • Clipboard

  • Pencils/erasers

  • Different coloured markers

  • Tape

  • Scissors

  • Different kinds of paper such as white paper, construction paper

  • I also used a white board and markers/dry and erase to help students spell and write words that they may need to reference 

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