Classroom Activity
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High Scope’s Activities:
Children gain enormous knowledge from the HighScope planned activity. Children experience small-group time, large-group time, and transition times. Teachers organized these activities based on the children interest, based on children’s’ needs and developmental stage, and based on the group size.
· Group times are important to successfully introduce new ideas, topics, and new materials.
· Groups are the first step for the children to start exploring and observing.
· Groups are usually last for 15 minutes.
· Group subjects comes from the children’s interests and the curriculum’s contents areas.
( sample activities, n.d, pra.1).
Sample Activity:
Title : Bubble Bubble Go A way
Teacher needs to have:
1. Small bowl of water with liquid dish soap added for each child.
2. Straws.
3. Smocks.
4. A tray for each child or newspaper to assist with clean-up the tables.
5. Teacher could use this activity with small group inside and outsides.
Beginning: Tell children that for today’s small-group time, they’ll need to put on a smock. Refer children to an experience they might have had with blowing (blowing out a birthday candle, blowing dandelion seeds, blowing up a balloon). Together, you all might try taking a deep breath and blowing. Give them each their bowl and straw and invite them to try blowing some more.
Middle: Observe children as they begin to explore blowing. Some children may need your encouragement to blow (rather than suck in). Move around the table from child to child. Notice their excitement as they make bubbles. You can use descriptive number language to support their discoveries. Use words like more, overflowing, enormous, few, several and multiple,. Try your bowl and straw to also blow bubbles. This experience might give you other ideas of things to comment on with the children.
End: After a 3 minute warning, ask the children to help you clean-up by dumping their bubbles in the trash and stacking their bowls, and return their smocks. They may also need to wash their hands if they are sticky. Ask children to blow themselves to the next part of the daily routine ( sample activities, n.d, pra.2).
Children gain enormous knowledge from the HighScope planned activity. Children experience small-group time, large-group time, and transition times. Teachers organized these activities based on the children interest, based on children’s’ needs and developmental stage, and based on the group size.
· Group times are important to successfully introduce new ideas, topics, and new materials.
· Groups are the first step for the children to start exploring and observing.
· Groups are usually last for 15 minutes.
· Group subjects comes from the children’s interests and the curriculum’s contents areas.
( sample activities, n.d, pra.1).
Sample Activity:
Title : Bubble Bubble Go A way
Teacher needs to have:
1. Small bowl of water with liquid dish soap added for each child.
2. Straws.
3. Smocks.
4. A tray for each child or newspaper to assist with clean-up the tables.
5. Teacher could use this activity with small group inside and outsides.
Beginning: Tell children that for today’s small-group time, they’ll need to put on a smock. Refer children to an experience they might have had with blowing (blowing out a birthday candle, blowing dandelion seeds, blowing up a balloon). Together, you all might try taking a deep breath and blowing. Give them each their bowl and straw and invite them to try blowing some more.
Middle: Observe children as they begin to explore blowing. Some children may need your encouragement to blow (rather than suck in). Move around the table from child to child. Notice their excitement as they make bubbles. You can use descriptive number language to support their discoveries. Use words like more, overflowing, enormous, few, several and multiple,. Try your bowl and straw to also blow bubbles. This experience might give you other ideas of things to comment on with the children.
End: After a 3 minute warning, ask the children to help you clean-up by dumping their bubbles in the trash and stacking their bowls, and return their smocks. They may also need to wash their hands if they are sticky. Ask children to blow themselves to the next part of the daily routine ( sample activities, n.d, pra.2).