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Early Childhood Studies: CLD 161 Field Education Learning Plan

Name: Sharukhan Janarthanan Student number:

Date: June 1st 2022 Plan number: 4

Age group: Preschool Title of activity: Outdoor Observation (Dramatic)

Observation
1) What do the children already know AND what do they want to know more about?

Observation:
During our time indoors, the children enjoy looking through the binoculars and investigating the classroom for various materials. Child A
responds by saying, "Wow, I can see everything from so far, Sharu look." "I can see so much and so far with the binoculars," Child B stated
after looking through them with myself. The children also enjoy travelling together for example, Child A mentioned “let's go to rainbow world”
and Child B&C cheered with excitement and travelled to the rainbow world.
Interpretation:
When the children use the binoculars to look around the classroom, they seem intrigued by how much closer the views appear than they are. The
children enjoy exploring new locations and learning about the unique characteristics that each one has to offer. As a result, having the children
roam around the yard like tourists and sightsee different spots in the playground allows them to feel more connected to nature and replicate the
role of someone sightseeing.

2) How will your activity build on the children’s interests?

By including binoculars in my activity, the children will be able to play the role of a traveller visiting an outdoor place from a different
perspective. The children will start by taking a tour of the area and painting what they see.

Planning
3) Briefly describe the intentional experience that you will plan to support children’s learning of the inquiry they are
exploring and investigating.

Outdoor Observation
Outdoor Observation is a dramatic, sensory and art experience that allows children to get insight into a tourist role while also exploring the
outdoors. The children take a tour around the playground and then paint a picture of what they saw. This experience will allow the children to
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feel more connected to the environment while also allowing them to play the role of a visitor visiting a new destination.

4) Experience Planning Outline

Describe the opening, middle and closing of the experience.

Opening (How will you draw attention to Middle (Describe your plan in detail - Closing (What are some ways you can
the experience to promote organic What will happen?) scaffold this experience to expand on the
exploration?) children's learning and interests?)

During the children’s nap, I would take the
time to start setting up my experience
outdoors by grabbing the binoculars and
different shades of paint. I'll also put the
sheets of paper out for the kids to utilize.
I'll become tour guide and hand out the To conclude the activity, I will enable the
binoculars to the children during the activity. children to present what they have painted and
I'll go over the many destinations displayed in explain why they chose the area.
the playground. Later, I'll let the children
explore the various places and then come back
to finish a painting based on what they saw on
their journey.

5) Describe your role in supporting children's engagement with this experience.

My role in the learning activity will be to actively participate alongside the children throughout the activity in order to boost engagement when
directing the tour and allowing them to explore in order to later make an artifact. I hope that by completing this activity, the children would learn
to appreciate nature while exploring as tourists.

Faculty Educator Comments:

(To be completed by Field Educator at placement)

Describe how the experience engaged What big ideas did the children explore? What possibilities did the experience
the children create?

Although I missed the first portion of your Encouraging the children to observe their Each day, the children spend a little more
experience, I heard how successful the space shifted their movement in the time exploring their environment. They

exploration piece of this plan was. The
children were excited to examine the
space and shared their insights with you.
When it was time to portray their
observations and discoveries, the children
were thrilled to use the paint. They
created their representations and spoke
proudly of them.
Image of experience set-up before the children engage.
playground and what they started to
notice. These observations inspired
deeper conversations about plant life,
care and respect for the environment.
Image of the children engaging in the experience.
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are always eager to share information
with us. This experience allowed the
children to document their observations -
something that can be revisited, elevating
the conversations and questions about
the natural world.
It was wonderful to see how excited you were
about this experience. Well done!
A.Chow
June 3, 2022