By: Katy Power and Brynda Baker 10/3/12 Fuquay-Varina High School Early Childhood Education 2

 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 : 6.wikispaces.com/file/view/web_diagram.png/ /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)  Water  Food Coloring  Scissors Directions: 1)Fill the bottle with water and color it with the dye 2)Cut the grocery bag into a rectangle 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  Marker Directions: 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. 1 st - thumbs up 2 nd - elbows back 3 rd - knees together 4 th - toes together 5 th - butt out 6 th - head back 7 th - 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 - Named Steve - upon Julie - Phil Julie - a James - and James - time Sarah - He Sarah - there Steve - Liked Steve - was Julie - Rainbows Julie - a James - The James - Teddy Sarah - End Sarah - Bear