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Nursery 2 Venus
Class Overview
Nursery 2 Venus consists of 10 enthusiastic Stars. Always full of energy, they love expressing in a variety of ways. However, they are still unable to label their emotions.
Lesson Documentation
Theme: All About Me!
Topic: Feelings
Lesson Overview
This activity is called, ‘Spread Happiness’. Using the previous lesson on the basic emotions; Happy, Sad, Angry and the feeling chart introduced to them. This activity allows them to express further positive emotions and help them identify when and why they feel the happiness. They will be displayed on a paper plate. Also, writing it down and will be posted on the board.
Materials Needed
Pipe Cleaners
Ruler
Googly Eyes
Coloured Markers
Strips of Paper
Paper Plates
Gluestick/White Glue
Buttons
Emotions Chart
Ribbons
Lesson Objectives​
Children will be able to:
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Create a visual representation of themselves
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Identify the different feelings.
Procedure:
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Teacher Rina provides the children with a strip of paper. Children will need to fill in their feelings accordingly.
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This will be shared during closure. ​
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Teacher Rina will distribute one paper plate to each child.
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Divide the children into two groups.
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Children will be required to do a personalised representation of their happy/joyous emotion, using the available art and craft materials.
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Each child will be given a bowl to store the materials that they have chosen.
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Once they are done, Teacher Rina will help the children stick a chopstick and children will be able to use this to spread happiness around.
Watch how Teacher Rina puts her lesson in action!
Teaching Technique
Documentation
Rationale for Documentation
According to Seitz (2008), PhD from NAEYC, one thoughtful teacher could use documentation to prolong and extend an unexpected learning opportunity.
Documenting individual growth requires a great deal of research, as the teacher must observe each child in a variety of areas of development (such as social-emotional, cognitive, language, and motor) over a substantial length of time (Seitz, 2008).
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By making learning visible through documentation, it reveals not only what children are learning but how they are learning (Yu, 2008).
How It Was Used During The Lesson
Teacher Rina document the children’s artworks, processes through photographs and videos taken while the children are in the midst of making their faces on the plates.
She demonstrates by writing down all answers given by the children despite the probability of being right or wrong. This is to allow children to see answers they have driven as physical evidence of their thought processes.
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Teacher Rina takes pictures of everything that is on the board to help her plan future lessons and also build on the existing knowledge the children has and what was already being taught on that day.
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Teacher Rina also made the children write what they feel instead of just expressing through art. This way, the children documented what they felt and why they have felt a certain way. Next time, they will be able to go back to the board and remember everything they had done.
How To Apply During Other Lessons?
Tap on children's uniqueness, strengths and weaknesses
Encourage children to find joy in things they do
Ask about the children's progress and take pictures