By: Katy Power
and
Brynda Baker
10/3/12
Fuquay-Varina High School
Early Childhood Education 2
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 What
is developmentally appropriate
practice?
 What factors should be considered when
planning developmentally appropriate
curricula?
 Age
span of the children
 The rates of growth of individual
intelligences
 Different learning styles of individual
children
 Social and cultural background of the
children
 Brainstorm
ideas
 Group similar ideas together
 Share ideas
 Develop a web diagram to show ideas
Example: http://australiancurriculumresourcesf6.wikispaces.com/file/view/web_diagram.png/259916856/web_diagram.png
 Organize
your activity
 Bodily
kinesthetic- body movement
 Interpersonal- working with other people
 Naturalists- plants and animals, colors and
shapes
 Musical- singing, chanting, poetry
 Intrapersonal- understanding of self
 Linguistic- talking, listening, and writing
 Logical- Mathematical- numbers, math, and
science
 Spatial- art and design
Jellyfish Bottle Activity (naturalistic)
 Gatorade Bottle
 Grocery Bag
 Air bubble (for the head)
Directions:
 Water
1) Fill the bottle with water and color it
 Food Coloring with the dye
2) Cut the grocery bag into a rectangle
 Scissors
3) Create a head and blow a little air
(tie it tight)
4) Cut the rest of the bag to create
little tentacles
5) Put the jellyfish into the bottle, flip
bottom upside down and right side
up (repeat)
Idea by: Victoria Maidon ECEd 2
FVHS Intern
Mother’s Day Activity (spatial and linguistic)
 Paint
 Paper
Directions:
 Marker
1) Paint the child’s hand, put on
paper to make a hand print
2) Paint child’s foot, put on paper to
make a SEPARATE footprint
3) Write above “I love you from my
fingers to my toes!”
4) Let dry and let them take it home

Activity Done By: Heather Smith ECEd 2
FVHS Intern
Counting Goldfish (logical-mathematical)
 Goldfish color crackers
 Napkin
Directions
1. Give them each 5-10 gold fish
2. Have them count aloud how many goldfish
they have, and the colors
3. Let them enjoy their gold fish
Singing in the Rain (body-kinesthetic and musical)
Silly Songs- “Repeat After Me” Activity
Directions
1. Tell them to repeat these words“I’m singing in
the rain just singing in the rain what a glorious
feeling…Ah… chity bop chity bop chity bop
WOO chity bop chity bop chity bop WOO 
(then movement instructions one at a time)”
2. 1st- thumbs up 2nd- elbows back 3rd- knees
together 4th- toes together 5th- butt out 6thhead back 7th- in a circle
The Story Game (Intrapersonal/Interpersonal)
Teacher’s Directions
1)
Have the children make a straight line
2)
Explain the instructions
3)
Teacher write the story down and read it to them
Rules:
Take turns! And go down the line having everyone add
one word to the story.
Example:
Sarah- once
Steve- upon
Julie- a
James- time
Sarah- there
Steve- was
Julie- a
James- Teddy
Sarah- Bear
Steve- Named
Julie- Phil
James- and
Sarah- He
Steve- Liked
Julie- Rainbows
James- The
Sarah- End