Assignment 1B: Preliminary Activity Plan

ASSIGNMENT 1B
PRELIMINARY ACTIVITY PLAN
DIRECTIONS:
1) Choose ONE activity from your Assignment 1A: Infant/Toddler Workshop.
It can be a sensory, language, music, science, math, or dramatic play
activity.
2) Decide whether your activity will be designed for an infant (age 0-24
months) or a toddler (age 14-36 months). Imagine you are doing the
activity for ONE child only for now.
3) It must be a teaching activity which is ‘reusable’’ and therefore
activities that have the children just painting or play with playdough
are not appropriate. Home-made books, puzzles, games, file folder
activities, etc, are all suitable for this assignment. Commercial games
may not be used. The activity must be home-made using inexpensive
materials.
4) Material should be labeled and containers for appropriate storage that
benefits children made available.
5) You are expected to utilize resource books such as the Creative
Resources text to come up with interesting and creative ideas. If you do
not have this available many resources can be found online.
6) Complete the following WRITTEN COMPONENT to accompany the
materials. The written component should explain how the activity supports
creativity and inclusion as discussed in the class. A complete activity plan
is NOT required and the activity does NOT need to be implemented.
7) On the due date, submit 1 or 2 photograph(s) of the completed
materials for the activity as well as the completed written component.
Written Component

Preliminary Information:
Name of Student Educator: _______________________________________________
Curriculum Area: Literacy Developmental Domain: Familiarity with the alphabets,
connecting letter names and recognizing their names and learning to spell, read and write
their names properly
Descriptive Title of Activity: Decorating old chef caps with colourful alphabets and
stickers
Indoor:_______ Outdoor:_________
Age of Children: 14 to 36 months
Date of Implementation: 13th March 2019
Resources Used to Prepare Plan (in APA format):
Children’s Resource or Storybook (in APA format, to be used as part of activity-
before/after/extend/enhance learning):
Part I – Planning
Rational for the activity (sentence form):
This kitchen activity will help to engage children in creative work. Writing the name of
the child over the chef cap with colourful sketch pens will help the child to get familiar

with the alphabets, connecting with the letters, its pronunciation. The activity will also
help the child (X) to read, write and spell his name while helping to identify the name at
once. The activity will also help the children to learn to grip the sketch pen properly
while helping to identify various colours.
The activity will also help the child to get an idea about how to reuse old thinks by using
tools or products present at home. According to Van Oers and Duijkers (2013) stated that
teaching under a play-based environment is significant positive outcome in early
childhood education in comparison to teacher driven approach.
Learning Materials needed:
1. An Old chef cap (white in colour)
2. Colourful Stickers (alphabet stickers and car stickers)
3. Colourful sketch pens (red, blue, yellow, green, and black, orange, violet and brown)
4. White paper
5. Gum
6. One pair of scissors
Description of Set-Up:
Over the kitchen table, the old chef cap was placed. At one said the sketch pens were
placed inside one pen older. The white paper, scissors, gum and stickers were placed at
the side of the cap.
Guidelines to Foster Self-Regulation:
Self-regulation plays a foundational role in introducing emotional, physical and
social, well-being along with educational achievement. It is defined as an act of handling
thoughts to progress towards goal-directed actions. For instance, hunting ways to cope
with negative emotions so that emotions do not become overwhelming and learning to
focus and control behaviours to get along important work. Development of self-

regulation during early childhood promotes promising performance in academic career
while helping to maintain better relationships (Montroy et al., 2016).
During early years of life, caregivers hold prime importance in ensuring self-
regulation of the child. Fostering of self-regulation depends on the parameters like
developing and maintaining safe environment in order to ensure proper co-regulation
among the adults and the children (Montroy et al., 2016).
 First step towards fostering self-regulation include providing warm and
responsive relationship so that the children feel comforted, safe and confident.
 Second step includes structuring the environment in order make the process of
self-regulation manageable. Safe environment encompass both physical and
emotional safety
 Third step include teaching and coaching of self-regulation by taking help of
modelling, instruction and opportunities for skill enhancement
(Montroy et al., 2016)
Health or Safety Considerations:
The activity will be co-ordinated away from the oven or stove in order to avoid the threat
of heat burn
The sharp utensils of the kitchen like the knives must be kept away from the reach of the
children, preferable in the upper shelves or locked in order to avoid the threat of cut-
wound
The task of cutting the white paper and pasting over the rim of the kitchen cap will be
done solely by the care-giver in front of the children in order to further avoid the chance
of cut-wound
The hand of the child must be washed thorough after pasting of the paper band over the
rim of the cap in order to avoid skin infection
The child must be carefully monitored so that the colours from the sketch pens do not
come in direct contact with the eyes or skin in order to avoid infection