Lesson Learning Experience

Throughout this semester I have had the privilege to observe and work with the students at Kensington day care. This experience has allowed me to plan my own lessons and interact with the children on a weekly basis where they would take the material taught to and expand these ideas. The children were taught a new item or learned about a new experience for each mini lesson that I taught.
The basic lesson planned for the children that occurred every morning would subsume explaining the weather, days of the week, months of the year and the alphabet. Each child was chosen weekly to be the helper in this exercise. This lesson was planned to give the child a more open and comfortable environment to communicate with the teachers and the rest of …show more content…
Jolly phonics is a program designed to teach students the 42 letter sounds of the English language, rather than the alphabet. The students all interacted in the jolly phonics activities. The first part of the jolly phonics lesson was to read a singular jolly phonics book and the children were asked questions about the book. In order to keep the students engaged and focused a board game was used. The board game had two dice, one with a number the other with a shape. As I went around the room a question would be asked and formed in a way that the students answer was not a simple yes or no, the student was expected to either spell a new word that was just learned or to use the new jolly phonics word in a sentence. This language time was valuable for the students to learn their letters and …show more content…
Preschool children all have one thing in common and that is thier eagerness to learn . These children are at a stage in their lives where if they succesfully learn the alphabet, how to wirte their names and learn simple things like transportation vehicles it forms a strong and supportive foundation for the rest of their academic lives. Preschoolers are very engaged in activities and this allows them to share ideas and express what they feel. The experience of working with such young children and teaching them has made me very confident in my area of study. Although being a preschool teacher is a very rewarding jobs, when I sat down individually with every child individually and taught them the letters of the alphabet and how to pronounce them,this was when I felt most comfortable. Th language stimulation project has given me the absolute confidence to pursue my career choice as a speech- language