Recruitment Presentation

The Creative Self

One classroom activity that supports emotional development along with a supporting rationale that explains specifically why the activity is appropriate.

An activity we do in the classroom that supports emotional development is that reading a book about emotions such as The Pigeon has feelings too. This book is well know that the Pigeon has a temper tantrums and the children think that is was hilarious. After reading the book we will get magazine and cut out different mad, sad,or happy faces. Then put them in a basket and pull one out at a time. Then ask the child how they feels. They can yell it out or mimic the feeling as their answer. The activity is appropriate because the book and the activity can be a great way of getting kids engaged in talking and learning about emotions.

One classroom activity that supports social development along with a supporting rationale that explains specifically why the activity is appropriate.

An activity that support social development, we do in the classroom in the morning at circle time is sang a song so the children know which of their friends are in school or absent. An the sung also help the children learn there friends name. The song goes something like this John came to school today, school today, school today now lets spell your name. This activity is appropriate because they get to learn about there friends and they will learn how to spell there own name.

One classroom activity that supports physical development along with a supporting rationale that explains specifically why the activity is appropriate.

An activity the supports physical development as we plan to go outside we start by drawing a number of shahpes on the sidewalk by using sidewalk chalk. I draw shapes like circles and squares, retangles, rhombuses and pentagons. Once the shapes were drawn, I would line the children up and name a shape for the children to go find. Then it was ready, set go! As they race to find the shape that I have called out. When the children find the shape they would stomp on it and do a happy dance. Another thing that can be incorpated in this game would to count the number of sides or point out other features of the shape to help the kids learn them. This activity is appropriate because this will provide gross motor skills and knowledge of learning their shapes, how many sizes and counting. Physical development revolves around making the children to become active in their physical stature by maintaining a better health background.

One classroom activity that supports language and literacy development along with a supporting rationale that explains specifically why the activity is appropriate.

An activity that supports language and literacy development is a Bingo game to help the children practice their letters. Add a letter into each square then make a set of square cars with a letter on each. Then give each child a card and they will also turn the square cards face down. When they pick a square card and turn over the square, they have to see if the can make the right sound of the letter. Then if the letter that the child pick is on there card they keep it to cover the letter on there card. The winner is the first child to cover all the letters on their card and get to shout “BINGO!”. This activity appropriate because it teaches the children there sounds of the letters and to recognize the letters.

One classroom activity that supports cognitive development along with a supporting rationale that explains specifically why the activity is appropriate.

An activity that support cognitive development that we use in the classroom is a jigsaw puzzle and memory game. Watching the children match colors and shapes to form one bigh picture is very exciting. When they finish the puzzle they be so proud of themselves and know that they can do it. The jigsaw puzzles help with fine and gross motor skills, hand-eye coordination, problem solving, memory, shape recognition, and more. Puzzles are beneficial because they cause children to anlyze the task and create a strategy to complete it. This activity is appropriate because it improved concentration, enhanced cognitive skills, boosted brain functionality and visual memory training.

References

Kohl, M. (2008). Fostering creativity (Links to an external site.). Earlychildhood NEWS. Retrieved from www.earlychildhoodnews.com/earlychildhood/article_view.aspx?ArticleID=349