Natalya Saunders

Reflection

Description
My placement did an activity where the children were told a story on shapes, colors and numbers. They were each individually asked questions about the book. For example “What color does red and blue make?” and “Can you find a square shape in the room?

After lunch, the children were told to sit down on the mat for a story. While this was happening, me and two other practitioners placed shapes, colors and numbers around the room in different areas. While A read the story, she stopped on the numbers page and asked Ch1 what number she was pointing to. Ch1 said that she was pointing to the number 3. A congratulated Ch1 and then asked him to go and find the number 3 in the nursery.

Ch1 got up from the mat and walked around the room; he walked over to the home corner and looked on the small sofas. He shouted out that he found it, he came running back with a laminated number 3. A smiled and told him to sit back down with it.

A continued to do this for the rest of the numbers part of the book, then when the book got to the shapes, A asked Ch2 what colour you get if you mix blue and yellow together. Ch2 sat in silence for a few seconds and then she said to A quietly if the answer was green. A agreed with her, and said well done. Ch2 stood up and asked A if she could go and find the colour green. A agreed she could and praised her for asking nicely.

Ch2 walked around the puzzle tables slowly; as she did so she looked from side to side, checking the tables carefully. She walked over to A2 and said that she couldn’t find the colour anywhere. A2 bent down and told her to have a look in the sand pit. Ch2 skipped over to the sand pit and using her hands she brushed away some sand and found a piece of green card. She ran back to A and waved the card. A congratulated her, before she sat down A asked Ch2 how many sides the piece of card had. Ch2 counted the sides slowly, she then sat down and told A that there was 4 sides. A praised her and said to the other children that they would be learning about shapes next.

A pointed out all the shapes in the book she then asked Ch3, Ch4, Ch5 and Ch6 to go and find specific shapes that were hidden. She asked Ch3 to find a triangle, Ch4 was asked to find a star, Ch5 was asked to find a rectangle and Ch6 was asked to find a circle.

Ch3 found the purple colored triangle, poking out of a book in the story corner, Ch4 found the green star on top of the drawer of construction things. Ch5 found a blue rectangle near the play-doh table. When they had sat down Ch6 was still looking for the red circle, he walked back to A, and he had a frown on his face, and said that he couldn’t find the circle. A smiled to him and told him to ask me if I knew where it was. Ch6 walked over to and held my hand. I squatted down next to him; he asked me if I knew where the red circle was hidden. I smiled and reached into my pocket. I then gave him the circle which had been given to me to hide. He laughed and hugged me. Still holding my hand he took me back to the mat where he explained to A that I was hiding it in my pocket. A laughed and gave Ch6 a hug and told him to sit back down.

When the story was finished A asked the children to hand back the shapes, colors and numbers, one at a time. All the children at the back got up and came up to the front, they gave their items back to A, and one at a time A asked them what items they had been holding were. All the children answered correctly, even though some took longer to answer. As a reward all the children were given a sticker from the reward book.

Evaluation

There was good and bad to come from this activity, the good was that all the children were developing their intellectual development, as well as developing their memory’s. They were also developing their social skills as they were answering questions that they were in. There were also their listening skills, as many of the children don’t like