Kindergarten Program

Running Head: KINDERGARTEN PROGRAM
KINDERGARTEN PROGRAM
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Introduction
This essay will discuss the overall expectations and review program related to
mathematics in the kindergarten program. The overall expectations associated with
mathematics include effective communication that will help the children to communicate
with others, to demonstrate better literacy behavior, awareness about the texts,
communicating their thoughts with various art forms and applying mathematical processes to
support the development of mathematical thinking. Out of the mentioned overall and specific
outcomes the chosen outcome is the usage of languages that will include both verbal and non-
verbal communication skills so that the children will develop thinking skills and also can
reflect better to solve problems.
Discussion
In order to develop the chosen specific expectations there is a need to develop two
planned activities.
Planned Activity 1
Materials
The materials that will be needed to conduct the activity will include a word wall that
contains all the English alphabets.
Description
The activity will include a child who will identify all the children whose name starts
from the letter “A”. The child will take the word wall and will involve another child into the
activity. This way more number of children will be engaged in the activity that will help in
the better involvement of all the children (Fiser& Frey, 2014).

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Developmental Activity
This activity will be helpful for the overall development of the children as it
highlights one of the six principles of ELECT guidelines that demonstrates the importance of
playing and inquiry amongst the children that will help to increase the natural curiosity
among the children and will also support learning. This will also help the children to count
the number of children present in class, then counting the number of children whose name
starts with ‘A’. Thus, this activity will make the children understand about the normal
additions and subtractions in a more relaxed manner (Erby et al., 2017).
Action of children
The children will discuss the entire activity amongst themselves and then will try to
solve the problem. This will help them to sharpen their knowledge about the alphabets, they
will get to know the classmates better along with that this activity will also enhance their
observatory skills (Bicer et al., 2013).
Questions asked
The questions that can be asked by the educator or the teacher in order to respons or
challenge the thinking of the children are “Were you thinking about...?’ or “I wonder how
you knew about that”. These questions will guide the students to solve the activity and will
also encourage them (Bassok et al., 2016).
Other Expectations
The two expectations that are included in this activity are the involvement of the
children with each other and also with the educator that will strengthen the bond between
them and the next expectation is the development of cognitive skills among the children.