Fishing—connecting with our community: A Learning Story sample

Read about a Learning Story sample of toddlers and preschool kids going on a fishing exploration and connecting with their community. Learn about the observations, skills, and developmental domains involved.

PLAY AND DOCUMENTATION
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Learning Story sample
Fishing—connecting with our community
YouTube Video link- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzBSjg681x8
Date: Title: Fishing—connecting with our community Age: Toddlers within
5 years of early
learners’ group-
reproducing the pre-
school kids
Observation:
Learning Story The children get on a fishing exploration, and the educator observes jubilant and beaming faces, kids concerned for and cheering each
other, the trees and scrublands with greeneries, the manifestation of shark and dolphin on the relevant regions enables the children to
have a conversation, children on board, a kid cuddled up approaching to the educator to ask for the whereabouts of crocodile. The
educator felt contented, comfortable, considerate, exultant, aware, supportive, and cool. She sensed a perceptiveness of feeling right,
meant for herself, the kids, and relations of the infantile community. She listened to: kids chatting, the amusement, the inter-related
discussion, blissful clamour, an infant desperate in demonstration of the physical movements, for the reason that the kids don’t desire
to leave, as well as the periodic echoing all-encompassing sound of the nature across the land with hierarchy of vegetation. There are
flora and fauna all around and the children liked to engross them in quest of living essence as the so-called “cruiser” or vessel jolted on
its way (Gill, 2012).
One of the guys went down to watch the crocodile to cognize the appearance – the shape, size and sound of crocodile and returned
back to the means of transportation though he was asked to move carefully and not hangout faster. He elegantly managed to move to
the spot of crocodile and came back; in fact they were getting ready for sustenance. The land was equated to a river like region and
the kids realized the essence of tumultuous motion of a boat as if they were swinging within a “motor boat”.
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The children were helped by the mentor who put out the prop of pesky bag that included the trolley box containing the indispensable
items of consumption.
Referenced Analysis
of Learning
Skills, developmental
domains & learning
dispositions that have
occurred
“Dispositions stand with learning within a social setting”-- It is significant to comprehend the Carr’s assessments of community
over and done with learning relationships-- when kids feel harmless, protected and reinforced, they develop the spirit of self-
assurance to discover and learn from whatever is exposed to them. (Sharma, 2017).
The blend of varied forms of experience imposes the thrilled sensation of the budding inspiration to upkeep children's knowledge
and interest across numerous capacities which involve the active roles of educator and five children engaged in viewing the
dolphin, sharks and crocodiles while rocking through a boat- shaped vessel over the land. An integrated program of study permits the
children on the way to pursue education through a playful and holistic method, devoid of the limitations often levied by particular
areas of subjects (Berk, 2013). .
‘While educationalists create surroundings in which progenies practice reciprocally pleasant, thoughtful and courteous affairs with
societies and the circumstances, children react subsequently.’
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Link to Theoretical
Perspectives
Piaget’s examination
According to Piaget’s theory, natural surroundings of awareness of knowledge mature it as well as progressively arise to obtain, build,
and practice understanding.
Memory--Throughout this interval of childhood, the toddlers consistently levers or practices the learned facts–performing recall of
events concerning short span (Nolan & Raban, 2015).
Dispositions, for instance, curiosity plus flexibility or resilience, with practices of problem-solving attitude helps to understand the
surroundings better. Metacognitive awareness supports to reflect on individual learning as well as transmit the understandings to
others.
Learning and
development linkage
to
Early Years Learning
Framework:
Principles and
Practices (With
Learning Outcomes)
The innovative “Early Years Learning” Agenda is entitled as- “Belonging, Being plus Becoming” understands interactions as the
foundation for learning (www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au, 2018). Affiliations with household (the child’s associate and further
outstandingly educators), community, and values in addition to land are altogether imperative to knowledge.
The children were driving over the bumpy space of the natural zone selected for the adventure to enjoy a revitalizing and fun-filled
picnic and conversed in a sweet and lucid voice and frankly articulated their words of cheerfulness, jollity and laughter using shorter
sentences, for instance, 2-4 words. (Chen, 2014). The teacher’s interaction seemed to be quite friendly and accommodative to the
responses to the queries of children who were brought into being to observe the natural ambiances amidst the rocking drive of vessel
and intended to watch the crocodile, shark and dolphin (www.youtube.com, 2018).
On Facebook, across the Environmental Forum besides Workshops, educators ensure the strategies of other mentors for documenting
kids’ learning. “E-Newsletters denoting the records of children’s’ programs 8, 9 and 10 reacted to these demands for facts. This
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remains the second unique procedure stand in a stage of expansion and examination, and requires to be modified to ensemble different
environments.
Follow Up for future learning and development
 Whatever is organized in a communal setup, there is requirement of the people to be acquainted with its individuals, its productions, and it’s past.
 Categorizing an interposition or constructing an alliance would remain fruitful if it is acquainted with the values of the communal setup in addition to
the interactions amid performances of individuals and sets of people within the mass.
 The survey of children’s learning and behaviour and decent judgments would fruitfully determine and improve -- what the situation is nowadays, what
it has remained in the previous times, and whatever it might stand in the prospective years.
References
Berk, L. (2013). Child development (9th ed.) (Chapter 6). USA: Pearson Education.
Chen, F. (2014). Parents'perezhivaniesupports children's development of emotion regulation: a holistic view. Early Child Development And Care, 185(6), 851-
867. doi: 10.1080/03004430.2014.961445
Gill, N. (2012). Sharing responsibility — A holistic approach to addressing early childhood caries. Indian Pediatrics, 49(9), 763-763. doi: 10.1007/s13312-
012-0145-y
Leehwado. (2010). After Piaget: critical approaches to Piaget’s theory by phenomenological understanding. Korean Journal Of Early Childhood
Education, 30(6), 153-173. doi: 10.18023/kjece.2010.30.6.007
Nolan, A., & Raban, B. (2015). Theories into practice: Understanding and rethinking our work with young children (Chapter 2). Victoria, Australia: Teaching
Solutions.
Sharma, A. (2017). Child Development………A Holistic Approach. Samajbodh, 7(1), 133. doi: 10.5958/2321-5860.2017.00041.8
www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au (2018). Retrieved from http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/nqsplp/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/NQS-PLP-update-
Oct-2012.pdf
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Language
YouTube Video link-- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTj1QLJhMqs
Date: Context: Conversation of a 2.5 year girl with her father as regards
“a visit to the zoo”
Child Name: Courtney Age: 2.5 years
Language Sample
(Narrative)Past tense
Conversation
(What a child says when engaged in play experiences, with others...etc)
Referenced Interpretation of the skills and/or developmental
domains
(Language Domain – Expressive Language & Receptive Language)
The audio-visual demonstration reflects a strong communicative
essence among the child and her father. Courtney holds her pony tail
and instigates to catch sight of her. Father replies that this is a sort of
stupidity.
Courtney initiated to sing and formulate actions to the tune of Itsy
Bitsy Spider. The spider ascended through the ladder to approach
down with the wain to shower the people out! “Down came the
sandman twidabidahaway”. (Progressed near father then
sniggered a mix of intervals and located her head fleetingly onto
the cushion then assembled).
Expressive
The child expresses her thoughts and ideas through productive
affirmations while responding to her father She is categorically
able to express her attention, interests and ardour through the
organization of words and sentences which permits to understand,
nurture and execute the gesticulations (www.youtube.com, 2018).
The chid generally speaks 2-5 combination of words
She is Clever to tune the song and articulate several words to an
acquainted song. She interacts with the application of gestures
She enthusiastically utters pronouns -- ‘me’
She is quite gifted to utter some group of words to captivate the
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Courtney: “Hey”
Father: “Hey what?”
Courtney: “You identify what? We make sure of get-up-and-go to
zoo!”
Father: “You long to drive to the zoo?
Courtney: Yeh! (soared up with eagerness)In the zoological
gardens! .Plus a stock-outlet?”
Father: “And the store?”
Courtney: “It is spring period”.
Pop: “the present circumstances persisted to be spring season so
was going to drive to the zoo and the store”.
Courtney: “Da thi di ate” (the toddler implemented particular
resonances that nearly proclaimed like disputes).Ouwee!.
Pop: “ouwee”.
Courtney: “Guess what?
Father surprisingly asked what
(www.youtube.com, 2018)
responsiveness of elders, such as, “little fishes” She looks
competent to evoke an earlier experience and keenly state the
nicknames of flora and fauna as “polar bears”.
Receptive
Language is active over imagination to take account of the
balanced abilities and know the domain around the kid. The child
acquires language within common and informative setting which
remains caring to the knowledge gaining system. There are
inborn capabilities within the intellect that stimulate to build up a
usual inclination to express whatever the child cultivates
(www.youtube.com, 2018).
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Learning and
development linkage to
Theoretical Perspectives Early Years Learning Framework
Gardner’s Etymological Intelligence theory facilitates to
process the expressions over and done with words and philological
elements. Children relish whatever books or stories, dialogues or
poems they learn through listening, writing or reading appliances.
The constructivist principle of Bruner emphasizes on the
acceptance of progenies as dynamic learners who create sense
through exchanges of judgments and understandings with others
as well as the surroundings (Gill, 2012).
“Iconic demonstration” denoting the practice of graphic
imageries to generate activities, stuffs, and perceptions proves
informal to discover, identify, learn, as well as think of real
entities at an early period.
As per Chomsky’s analysis, ability for following language is
equivalent across the domain in enthusiastically diverse cultures
and situations. In The younger generation is able to grasp a new
language more readily and acquire simple to complicated
grammatical forms through elementary learning apparatuses
The potential approach of “EYLF” delineates that the parents
and instructors of children customize the frame of overall
development founded on kids' usual knowledge as well as
understandings by creating good communicators with:
 Eagerness to learn the language
 curiosity
 assurance
 determination
 self-reliance
 Collaboration
 Reflexivity (www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au, 2018).
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and apply the syntactic structures into sentences (Nilsen, 2014).
Objective for future learning and development Learning Possibilities for inclusion in the curriculum
 To influence specific training of speaking, writing, reading and listening skills
through imparting knowledge of nature, zoo, animals, birds and fish To link language with positive human adaptations with implementation of tools
besides performances, for fulfilling the growth of assured cultural features and
social behaviour (Nilsen, 2014). To impart musical lessons with actions to direct the flow of imagination and
creativity
The outcomes would ensure how Early Years Learning
Framework can practice children’s previous knowledge,
organized with the Educational Upshots, to lead the planning of
learning situation, resources, training strategies in addition to find
out ways to display and evaluate children’s knowledge and varied
activities by means of providing involvements, engaging in
unremitting communications, model and game-cards plus promote
kids’ learning outlooks through stories, rhymes, nature-studies,
for instance, the animals, fish, Zoo, Action Song:, like Incy Wincy
Spider (www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au, 2018).
References
2.5 year old talking about the zoo. (2018). Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTj1QLJhMqs
Chen, F. (2014). Parents'perezhivaniesupports children's development of emotion regulation: a holistic view. Early Child Development And Care, 185(6), 851-
867. doi: 10.1080/03004430.2014.961445
Gill, N. (2012). Sharing responsibility — A holistic approach to addressing early childhood caries. Indian Pediatrics, 49(9), 763-763. doi: 10.1007/s13312-012-
0145-y
Nilsen, B. (2014). Week by week: Plans for documenting children’s development (7th ed.) (Chapter 8). USA: Cengage.
www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au (2018). Retrieved from http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/nqsplp/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/EYLFPLP_E-
Newsletter_No17.pdf
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