At the recent MCEA Conference, participants in the "Not Yet; In Process; Proficient" workshop generated tried and true, something new ideas. For those of you waiting, here they are!
Language and Literacy Development
Tried and True
1. Writing name
2. Tracing letters in sand, shaving cream
3. Using juice lids with letters to lay their name in the proper sequence
4. Books--reading, making, tapes
5. Circle time
6. Writing Center--envelopes, cards, etc.
Something New
1. What is it from box--students name item, how it is used, do you have one?
2. Family stories--hopes and dreams
Approaches to Learning
Tried and True
1. Blocks
2. Art projects
3. Basket of seasonal items
4. Dress up clothes
5. Construction area with open ended projects
6. Class books
7. Observation during small group activities and discover time
8. Puppet shows
9. Flannel boards
Something New
1. Documentation of conversations
2. Teacher/student reflections
Social and Emotional Development
Tried and True
1. Play a game with someone
2. Make a family book
3. Nancy Carlson's "I Like Me!"
4. Game with emotions--sad, happy, tired, sleepy
5. Playing board games, taking turns
6. Answering questions in a group in front of class
7. Show and Tell
8. Imaginative Play area
9. Conversations during snack time
Something New
1. Role playing situations: lost shoe, disagreements between students, etc.
2. Learning how to ask questions
3. Learning how to listen, then respond
Physical and Motor Development
Tried and True
1. Obstacle courses
2. Playground
3. Stretching song
4. Target toss--circle time activities, games
5. Drawing, writing,painting, art
6. Cutting, ripping
7. Puzzles, manipulatives
8. Sewing cards, bead stringing
9. Parachute
10. Big block building
11. Dancing
Something New
1. Calligraphy
2. Writing letters and numbers in the air
3. Walk like an elephant, horse, cat, etc.
Creativity and the Arts
Tried and True
1. Clay, beads, feathers--make a bird
2. Dancing
3. Painting
4. Acting out a story
5. Painting with various objects, kitchen items, branches, plunger, etc.
6. Sensory table/stations
7. Music activities--traditional and not so traditional instruments
Something New
1. Nothing "closed"
Cognitive Development
Tried and True
1. Colored linking cubes--count, sort, etc.
2. Solid cylinders
3. Manipulatives
4. Counting activities
5. Texture activities
6. Hot/cold, wet/dry
7. Science experiments
8. Plant seeds--gardening, composting
9. Butterfly--growth and development
10. Science/math time during large group time to demonstrate activity
11. Cooking
12. Counting while passing a ball in circle time to see who is in class
Something New
1. My family--how we make dinner; how we buy or grow food
2. Walking in the rain
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Great ideas!
I have some fun ideas to add...
** Language and Literacy:
I put their names on the wall with a photo next to it, the kids love to copy names "make lists"
**Social and Emotional Development:
Every Monday we make a circle and we talk about our weekend...weekend Update, it's almost as funny as SNL.
**Physical and Motor Development:
One child sits behind another and prints a letter on his/her back and they try to guess the letter.
They are good ideas! Even if I've heard of the "tried and true" ideas before it's good to get a refresher and have even more tricks to pull out of the old hat. I especially like the "what is it from" box. We've done the "what is it" box, but I never really thought of taking it those few steps further to ask how to use it, or maybe who uses it for their job. I also like the role playing of issues/situations that might come up. Chad and I role play how to use a new dramatic play area (the kids LOVE it when Chaddie or Bethie is "naughty" and leaves something on the floor or fights over a toy!) and we call out "I love the way *** is helping/singing/sitting/listening..." as a role model for the other kids. Once again, we never took it to the next level to role play situations the kids might get into as an example of what to do. We often say "use your words" but this way we can give them those words first!
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