Kindergarten and Piaget

Hello, everyone! Today we are going to read a book and do a really fun activity. But before we do that, I would like to quickly go over my expectations with all of you. My expectations are just like

The teacher could place two cups that have the same amount of liquid in the cups but because one of the cups is taller than the other the child is going to think the taller glass has more liquid in it. The third stage is the concrete operational stage which occurs during ages seven to eleven. The term concrete operational means the child can reason only about tangible objects presents. So the child can conserve and think logically but only with practical aids. Thinking becomes less egocentric with increased awareness of external events. The fourth and final stage is the formal operational stage which occurs during ages eleven to fifteen. This stage focuses on hypothetical thinking and scientific reasoning. Piaget believed that only children can learn when they are ‘ready’ to learn. He also believed that development couldn 't be ‘sped up.’ Piaget believed that children learned through the resolution of disequilibrium (self discovery, active participation). He believed that teachers should ‘bend’ to children’s needs, provide an appropriate environment, promote self discovery, exploratory learning, self-motivated learning, and set challenges to existing schemes.

Piaget suggests that development in children occurs in four stages: sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational and formal operational.

The learning activity chosen is for year 3 students, having the children chose a book they have read and enjoyed and get them to write up a book report detailing the Main characters, what happens at the start of the book, middle of the book and at the end along with the child’s personal connection with the book, what they think may happen to the characters after the story has finished and if they like the book or not and if they would recommend it to others. They will need to use the form provided to describe the main characters in the books and give an overview of what happens in the start, middle and end of the book. The children will also be required to explore the personal connection they have with the book and what they thought of the

Piaget’s developmental stages are ways of normal intellectual development. There are four different stages. The stages start at infant age and work all the way up to adulthood. The stages include things like judgment, thought, and knowledge of infants, children, teens, and adults. These four stages were names after Jean Piaget a developmental biologist and psychologist. Piaget recorded intellectual abilities and developments of infants, children, and teens. The four different stages of Piaget’s developmental stages are sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational. Sensorimotor is from birth up to twenty- four months of age. Preoperational which is toddlerhood includes from eighteen months old all the

[ ] In order to build on the children’s understanding and content knowledge, lesson one’s purpose is to engage the children through making a prediction based on the text, pictures, and title. Lesson two builds on the language and literacy by continuing with using the mentor text, “Fancy Nancy” and using the rich academic language associated with the central focus of predictions. For example, each lesson has a distinct objective in which the activities are built on but all three lessons build on each other by incorporating similar academic language and literacy. The children start out in a whole group setting and are actively engaged through discussions and sharing activities. The children are then scaffolded into independent reading and activities to assess their understanding of the content objectives. They then use their prior knowledge and rich vocabulary to successfully complete the objective of each lesson through verbal discussions, independent work, and physical movement. In lesson one, the children are actively engaged through participating in a gallery walk. This gallery walk is done with the children’s table groups and encourages community and social interactions. During this activity, the children will work together to activate their prior knowledge of predictions and record through writing what they

She added a new group to the book club. This group was just reading science passages before because Ms. J needed to find an interesting book on level for this group. The students made a paper booklet for their books and wrote the questions that were posted on the board and their answers for that book on a different page. So the first real page in the book would be the questions for chapter one the next page would be where the students recorded the questions and answers for chapter two, and so on. The new book added was named Summer of Riley. This novel follows the story of an eleven year old who has a dog named Riley that they are trying to save from being put to sleep by the law enforcement for chasing livestock. This raises a lot of interesting questions for the students including how to lawfully go about protesting a law, which is quite interesting to hear their conversations about it because they would never be in the position of William but they apply the story to their lives, which was fascinating. Ms. J really fosters the love of reading in her class, which I have really loved to

Two examples of reading response activities that I would incorporate with this story are making connections and predicting. Students can make connections about losing an object and learn to make connections with self, another book or the characters in the book. Students can also learn to predict. Each time that an animal comes into the story I would ask students to write or draw which animal they think will come next in the story. With this story students can also participate in two writing activities. In the story students can practice predicting through writing as well. For this writing activity I would pause the story on the page where the bear sneezes and all the animals fall out of the glove. After reading this page I would have students journal and predict what they think happened to the glove when the bear sneezed. Students can write and then share with classmates when they are done. Once sharing is down students will read on and find out what actually happen. Another writing activity the students can participate in is on an assigned prompt. The prompt would read my mitten is so big it could fit a blank. Students would have to respond and draw a

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Older students can dissect an owl pellet. We can take the lesson further and explore what animals stay in the winter and how they survive. Since this is a story of what a boy did with his father, perhaps the students can discuss or write about an activity they have done with a parent, grandparent, or friend. I remember writing a short story when I was seven, about snowmobiling with my grandfather. I drew a picture with the story; I think my mother laminated it.

This activity was different, challenging and enjoyable for the students and teacher. I could see that the students enjoyed reading “I Need My Monster” (A.Noll) and so did I. The story was comical, intense, and exciting. The more they read the more exciting it became. They want to know what was going to happen before we could turn the page. The activity helped the students to understand and expand their vocabulary. The book brought out the best in them. Using new reading strategies. Vocabulary words in a sentence to get the full meaning. Learning about using the tool of predicting. What would happen, how, when in differnet stages of the book. Using the title, table of contents, and pictures to bring it all to life. It provided

Example: The brown bear looks like he has fur because of the lines and the different colors. Also, ask the students what do they think the bear feels likes and why do they feel this way. After reading and discussing the book have the students think of an animal that was in the book or a different animal that they would like to draw and paint. Once the children have chosen their animals, pass around white multipurpose paper. Have them cut the white multipurpose papers in half (the long way). The children will then write the name and color of the animals they have chosen at the bottom of each page. Ask the children about the colors of the animals they have chosen. Have them explain why they chose that color for the animal. After the colors have been chosen, the children will collect each color paint. They will then pour a small amount of each

During the reading of the book, it seemed as if all the kids were very attentive. I knew this because as I was reading, all eyes were on me. They even were asking questions about the animals. After I read about one animal, the kids would start making the sound that the animal made. They also were very excited to be able to press the button and feel the animal. I also tried to include recall questions

When they got to their second assignment they sat down in a circle on the carpet. Mrs. Berenda then started to ask them questions on what they have learned about dolphins. If a student couldn't come up with an answer she would ask them to look in the book for an example from the book which also shows them how to use their resources. Going back to the first assignment when everyone go their white boards she asked them to split the board so half could be compare and the other half can be contrast. She made this a fun activity by saying the winner who used their books information would get 10$. After the second assignment she told everyone to go back to their seats and they would continue more on this lesson tomorrow. The way it connects to the

Focusing on children’s development and developing a proper classroom and lesson plan well help you to properly prepare and help each student in your center. Throughout this paper we will summarize Piaget’s Stage Theory, identify and describe the developmental characteristics of the age group of 2-4 years old, design and describe the physical layout of facility or classroom that aligns with Piaget’s Stage Theory, and create an activity for each developmental domain.