Introduction:
Preschool is the stage from three to six years of childhood. It is a very important stage of
life, because they acquire different skills and develop in different domains well .Also,
they have curiosity to discover the world around them by using their sense and through
playing. Teaching Children mathematic skills is very important to prepare them to life,
because it acquires lots of mathematic skills in classification, comparing, counting, and
knowing shapes and solids. Math contains many concepts such as, classifying,
comparing, one –to-one correspondence …ect and these concepts are use as skills in
sciences.
Creating activities for children in pre-kindergarten and kindergarten classes involves
choosing a skill and applying it in a creative and fun way and I have lots of ideas for
designing activities that are related to Math concepts. I choose the concept of
classification to design activity for the child.
I aim in this project to teach the child healthy and unhealthy food because of the
importance of healthy and unhealthy food in our life. Through the activities will practice
others skills such as, classifying and reasoning.
I apply the activities with one child:
Name: Omar
Old: four years and a half
he is in child care center
The previous activity (identifying the healthy and UN healthy food):
The goal: to ensure that child know the name of fruits and vegetables and unhealthy
food such as sweets and chips which are include in the activity and know what is
healthy and what is unhealthy before asking him to classify them because without
identifying them he cannot classify them .
TITLE: healthy food and unhealthy food.
DOMAIN: cognitive (science), social skills and language domain.
GOAL: Children will identify healthy food and unhealthy food.
OBJECTIVE: through this activity, the children will identify healthy food and unhealthy
food. He will increase his language skills by knowing new vocabulary of some healthy
food such as fruits and vegetables and unhealthy food such as sweets and chips.
Moreover, he will be able to decide what they will eat and what is good for him because
he identify healthy food and unhealthy food. Also, he will become more comfortable with
the social skills because they interact with the teacher.
CONTENT: This activity enhances the child vocabulary of healthy and unhealthy food.
This activity develops mental skill which is very important in life skills.
MATERIALS:
- Plastic foods or real foods: fruits, vegetables, ice cream, chips, bread, pizza, cakes, nuts,
etc.
- Baskets.
PROCEDURES:
-The teacher tells the child that they have new activity and she tell him the name of the
activity.
- The teacher asks the child about the name of the objects and if the child doesn’t know
she tell him again and he should say after her.
-The teacher asks the child randomly about the name of the objects.
- Finally she tidy up the activity and tell the child what he will do next.
SIMPLIFICATION:
Start with few familiar foods to child. Kinds of food that child know them and eat them in
their lifelike apple or orange or cookies.
EXTENSION:
Add many different kinds of healthy and unhealthy food which is not familiar to child.
EVALUATION:
As the activity progresses throughout the day and weeks, observe the child and take notes
about child uses of language. Is he able to identify healthy and unhealthy foods which
are in the activity? Ask the child if they know the names of objects. The child should be
able to name the objects all of them or at least most of them.
Reflection about the field-testing:
The child was happy to do the activity, he listen well to the teacher. When the teacher
was naming the objects .The child can identify and name all of the objects except the
cupcake when the teacher asks him.
The second activity is classified healthy food and unhealthy food.
DOMAIN: cognitive (science), social skills and language domain.
GOAL: Child will classify healthy food and unhealthy food.
OBJECTIVE: through this activity, the child will classify healthy food and unhealthy
food and he will put all healthy food in one place and the unhealthy food in other place.
He will increase his language skills by knowing new vocabularies of food. Moreover, he
will be able to think and decide what foods are healthy and what foods are unhealthy.
Also, he will become more comfortable with the social skills because he interact with the
teacher.
CONTANT: This activity meets the child needs of practicing the classifying skills which
is very important in his/her academic life later on. This activity enhances the child
vocabulary of healthy and unhealthy food. - This activity involves eye-hand coordination
which is an important skill in child’s life.
MATERIALS:
- Plastic foods or real foods: fruits, vegetables, ice cream, chips, bread, pizza, cakes, nuts,
etc.
- Baskets
- Two mats.
PROCEDURES: The teacher asks the child about the name of the activity. He should be
able to know the name of the object in order to classify the objects in this activity.
- The teacher ask each child to classify the object that he has in two mats one for healthy
food and the other for unhealthy food.
-she helps the child if he need.
- the teacher look at the child’s work when he finish and she help the child if he have
mistaken and she reinforce the child when he do correct work.
- Finally she tidy up the activity and tell the child what he will do next.
SIMPLIFICATION:
The teacher can put pictures of examples of healthy food and unhealthy food above
each mat also the pictures include yes( )in healthy food and no( ) in unhealthy food
so, the child when he\she look at the picture it become easy to the child to know what
he\she will put on that mat.
EXTENSION:
Add some foods which are in between healthy and unhealthy food and ask the children to
sort them if they are healthy food or unhealthy food or in between. And ask the child to
put them between the two mats to show that they are in between healthy and unhealthy
food.
EVALUATION:
Observe the child and take notes about child's uses of language. Is he able to distinguish
between healthy food and unhealthy food which are in the activity? Ask the child to
classify healthy and unhealthy food he should be able to do that and classify the object
which are in the activity all of them or at least most of them.
Reflection about the field-testing:
The child was happy to do the activity; he can classify most of the objects correctly. He
has 2 ages and 2chips in the activity and he but one age on healthy food mat and the other
on unhealthy food mat and the same with the 2 chips sol point at one age and I asked him
about its name and he said age then I asked him is it healthy or not and he said healthy so
l told him if it is healthy where we should put it he smile and take it and put it on the
healthy food and the same with the 2 chips.
The third activity: reasoning healthy and unhealthy food.
TITLE: healthy food and unhealthy food.
DOMAIN: cognitive (science), social skills and language domain.
GOAL: Child will reason why healthy food is healthy and why unhealthy food is
unhealthy.
OBJECTIVE: through this activity, the child will know the advantages of healthy food
and disadvantages of unhealthy food so he will be able to explain why healthy food is
healthy and why unhealthy food is unhealthy. He will increase his language skills by
knowing new vocabularies. Such as healthy, unhealthy, oil, fat and sugar. Moreover, he
will be able to think what they will eat and what is good for them or bad for them because
he knows the advantages of healthy food and disadvantages of unhealthy food. Also, he
will become more comfortable with the social skills because they interact with the
teacher.
CONTANT:
This activity enhances the child vocabulary of healthy and unhealthy food. And
advantages of healthy food and disadvantages of unhealthy food .Also, this activity
develop mental skill like reasoning which is very important in life skills.
MATERIALS:
- Plastic foods or real foods: fruits, vegetables, ice cream, chips, bread, pizza, cakes, nuts,
etc.
- Baskets.
PROCEDURES:
-The teacher asks the child about the name of the activity and she asks the child about the
name of the objects in the activity. If the child doesn’t know she tells him again and he
should say after her.
- The teacher asks the child about the object that he has if it is healthy or unhealthy.
-The teacher encourages the child to answer and if the child doesn’t know she tell the
child and explain to him by simple words.
-The teacher then takes the object from the child and thinks him.
- Finally she tidy up the activity and tell the child what they will do next.
SIMPLIFICATION:
Bring pictures or videos which show the child what is inside the healthy food which
make them healthy and what is inside the unhealthy food which makes them unhealthy
because child will understand more if they see and listen because as we know children
learn by their senses.
EXTENSION:
A trip can be arranged to a foods factory to see where their food comes from and how
they make them and what they put inside them then we ask the children to talk about
what they see and know from the trip.
EVALUATION:
Observe the child and take notes about child's uses of language. Is he able to know the
advantages of healthy food and disadvantages of unhealthy food which are in the
activity? Ask the child if he knows advantages of healthy food and disadvantages of
unhealthy food and ask the child to explain why healthy food is good and unhealthy food
is bad? And he should be able to know advantages of healthy food and disadvantages of
unhealthy food which are in the activity all of them or at least most of them and give the
reason why healthy food is good and unhealthy food is bad?
Reflection about the field-testing:
The child was happy to do the activity , he can answer the teacher questions about the
names of all objects but when the teacher ask him why healthy food is good for example
milk he doesn’t know so she told him because it make our mind and body strong. And
when the teacher ask the child about unhealthy food and the reason of that for example
daunt he doesn’t know the reason of being unhealthy too so I told him because it has lots
of sugar and oil. After explain to the child the reason of being healthy food and unhealthy
food he understood so when the teacher asked him a gene he can answer and tell the
reason but with some help from the teacher.
My last reflection about all activities:
I like working with Omar because he was smart in doing the activities. I like the
activity that I choose. I notice that sequence and repetition were the affective ways to
teach children. . Moreover, children need real objects and simple activities to understand
well the concept .In addition giving children chance to discover the objects or items at the
beginning is very important to understand the concept .Moreover . Omar understand the
concept of classification. At the beginning he was know the name of some objects in
activity like apple, fish and pizza and so he can’t classify healthy food and unhealthy
food also he can’t tell the reason of being healthy food or unhealthy food but after take
this activity he is able to identify all the objects in the activity, classify healthy food and
unhealthy food correctly and tell the reason of why Healy food is good and unhealthy
food is bad by simple words. I think that I have focused on mathematic language which
related to the concept while scaffolding and teaching child. Moreover, I should reinforce
the child by telling him good or excellent when he answer correctly because that is very
necessary to promote the process of learning and encourage the child to work hard. Also,
I should give the child more activates to be sure that he understand the concept and can
apply it in other activity with other materials.
Conclusion:
Preparing since activities for children is very interesting and important thing .The child
feel happy to do since activity and the teacher should know the level of child to prepare
appropriate activity, so the child will be ready and happy to interact with the activity .In
addition, learning children the concept classification and reasoning are very important,
because we use these concept a lot in our life so the child should know them to be
familiar.
Sultan Qaboos University
Collage of education
Early childhood department
2014
Lesson plan (classification concept)
Submitted to:D.Azza Habib
Done by: seham juma
ID: 91422