Centennial Collage

ECEP 229 CURRICULUM: PROJECT DEVELOPMENT

Birds

Phase One Professor: Maria Roberts Student: Ghada Al-Sallami

300623128 2011

IN THIS SECTION:
Observations and Analysis Web completed with children KWH (L) chart List of Questions to explore with children

Web with 6 possible experiences identified (covering several domains) Anticipatory Web. Rationale statement for families to aid in their understanding of my choice of topic for a project.

Date: September 26, 2011 Location: Red Apple Day Care Centre

Preschool playroom Time: 3:05 pm Specific Setting Information:

In my afternoon activity (Feather painting) Y sit on the chair hold the feather in his hand and dip it into tempera paint and draw on a construction paper . Me:- wow thats nice painting Y . Y: - is this bird wings?? , and show me his feather Me:- This is bird s feather. Y finished his painting and took feathers red, yellow, green, put them on his head and said quack, quack .

Date: October 3, 2011 Location: Playground Time: 4:30 pm Specific Setting Information: Red Apple Day Care Centre

N and K are playing in the playground, they are kicking the ball to each other, N stop kicking the ball and look up in the sky, she put her finger up

and said look birdie , K look up too, a swarm of birds fly in the sky , N & K look up and run follow the birds and said Birdies

Analysis:

From the 2 observations in this assignment and other observations during my Placement, it appears that children interested in Birds, we can see that when child Y asked me about the feather, then pretend he is a bird by saying quak , also when N and K followed the birds in the playground. I noticed also they are intrusted in birds food, wings, colors and eggs, I decide to be more specific in this project by answering all their questions not in direct answer, but through activates, and they are going to use all their sense , touch, smell, hear, see. According to A Chronological Approach text book Pg. 11 , Jean Piaget theory ( Children learn through exploration and all using their senses) . Also I am going to help them to use new words (know some birds names) and

tell them not all birds flying , for instance (Ostrich , Penguin and Hens ) . This project going to help children be cooperative, it will involve of good communication skills for them , it well help them improve language specially Children with special need in the center.

My First Web with the Children and Common Experience:

At the dramatic center I set with the children and I told them: I saw you so many times while you were outside run after birds and follow them , then I asked them an open ended question what do you know about birds , then all the kids in the dramatic center take turn to talk what they know about birds, after we all together come up with this web include all the ideas that I can translated to activities .

KWH (L) Chart (based on the web and observations)( final )

K Children Know

W What children like to know What do birds eat

H How children will Know Cover pine-cones with birds food and hang it ( sensory)

L What children learn Children learned that most birds eat seed, they saw lots of kind of seeds. And made bird feeder. Kids experienced kind of birds with deferent colors, big beaks, small beaks , brown, black , red, blue,etc. Kids knew sunflower seeds are the favourite seed for most birds, and they experience science activity and plant sunflower seeds. Children knew that all birds lives in homes, could be holes in a trees, nests , or bird houses that people made it for them . Children knew that birds have different sizes , they saw in the trip , the brown bird ( small) , sea gull ( medium ) and geese ( big) kids knew different kind of birds farm birds, rainforest birds, mountain birds, amphibious

Birds eat bugs

Birds are brown red and black

Do birds have different colors

Different kind of birds with real feather ( dramatic )

Eat bugs

What is birds favourite seeds

Planting sunflower ( science )

Lives in a tree

Do birds have homes

Painting bird house ( Art )

Big birds

Are birds big or small

Feld trip walking around neighbourhood

Swim and fly

How many kinds of birds

Matching some kind of birds ( math)

birds. Read book ( everything about birds ) , and show them bird with real feather , nests, eggs ( fake objects ) which fly and which dont fly (literacy) Children learned that all birds lay eggs, there are flying birds , and not flying birds, swimming birds, wings help them to fly . Heavy birds cant fly , light birds can fly.

Egg hatched

Do all birds lay eggs

List of Possible Questions ( final )

1. What the birds eat? 2. Do birds have different colors?

3. What is birds favourite seeds 4. Do birds have home

5. Are birds big or small? 6. How many kinds of birds

7. Do all birds lay eggs

Anticipatory Web ( final )

Birds Project
Dear parents: According to my observation, I noticed the children are interested in (Birds), while we are in outdoor play they keep watching up to the sky looking for flying birds, so I decide to expand this topic and put it as a project about birds. I am going to help children explore on this topic by using all their senses, and Im going to cover all the developmental domains, that will be in the beginning of November. Im sure we are going to enjoy this project. Sincerely

Ghada Al-Sallami Centennial college Third semester