Curriculum

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Curriculum
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Children learn

• in ways that are significantly different from
  older children
• not through formal academic processes typical of
  older children
• through direct sensory encounters
• by manipulating, exploring and experimenting with
  real objects
• by doing and
• through movement.

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Young Children

• Young children learn best through direct sensory
  encounters with the world and not through formal
  academic processes.

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What is this picture?

• Why do you think it is an apple?
• It is not, it is a mapple!
• What can you tell me about it?
• How do you know?

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Learning Through Our 5 Senses
Think about which senses you are using to take in
new information! Can you See it? Smell
it? Taste it? Touch it? Hear it?
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Curriculum
An organized framework that Identifies content
that children are to learn, Activities that will
assist children in learning and exploring
content Explains what teachers can do to assist
children Gives the how, where, and with what
children will explore content
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Remember CARE
Activities
Curriculum
Environment
Relationships
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Constructivist Curriculum

• Builds on previous knowledge
• Integrates learning through all areas of
  development
• Active, hands on learning
• Activities and curriculum evolve and change with
  time
• Activities are based on childrens interests and
  needs, as well as teachers
• Children are actively involved in curriculum
  construction

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Planning Learning Activities

• Open Ended Activities---
• No examples to copy
• Finished products could look
• different
• The process is the learning goal!
• Closed Activities
• Provide several examples
• Value different ways of
• experiencing the activity!

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Which Curriculum areas are most appropriate for
your age group?

• Science and Cooking
• Math and counting
• Art
• Language
• Large Motor
• Small Motor
• Outdoor
• Perceptual (Puzzles, memory)
• Manipulatives
• Drama
• Blocks

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LESSON PLANNING THE EASY WAY!

• Identify interests
• Brainstorm (What do you wonder or What would you
  like to know about)
• Choose key questions
• Develop Activities based on key questions and Put
  into lesson plan
• Locate materials
• Conduct activities
• Evaluate unit
• Keep the Ideas and materials that worked!
• Using Books to lesson plan!

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How they grow
PumpkinWeb
Cooking pumpkin
sizes
foods
smell
Jack-O-Lanterns
Pumpkin
Dogs
Seeds
Color of Pumpkin
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"WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE"

• Math
• Count the wild things on the pages
• Talk about what happened first, second, third,
  etc. in the story
• Science
• Talk about sailing on a boat and how long it
  would take to go to an island
• What kind of animals might live on an island?
• Language Arts
• Act out the story
• Draw a picture of what they would do or where
  they would go as a "wild thing".
• Art
• Make a collage of a jungle
• Make a mask of a "wild thing'
• Music/Movement
• Be "wild things" to music
• Blocks
• Build a place for "wild things'

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