Kinder garden

Planning stage

Project/Activity: Kinder garden (C/A/S)

Date: 28^th March 2011

Goals: To make a contact with children, to conduct an informative and interesting lesson for little boys and girls, to act as a teacher.

Personal Challenge: To overcome myself and be very patient and attentive, to monitor literacy of speech.

Learning Outcomes: Applications by heart, good reminiscences, oratory.

1. Is this activity a new role for me? There were some similar roles, but work in a kinder garden is definitely new.
2. Is it a real task that I am going to undertake? Yes, there is a plan, which we should follow.
3. Does it have real consequences for other people and for me? For children, we hope they will get new impressions.
4. What do I hope to learn from getting involved? Can I make a contact with children? Is it interesting for me? Can I make them interested?
5. How can this activity benefit other people? Children will knew something new, acquainted with students.
6. What can I reflect on during this activity? I can understand to what extend I get on with children.

Reflection

1. What did I/we do and where did I/we do it? We conducted a lesson with children in a kinder garden.
2. What did I/we hope to learn? We wanted to learn children’s skills, ways of thinking, imagination.
3. How successful have I/we been? This lesson was conducted very well, there were some problems, but all in all everything was good.
4. What difficulties were encountered and how did I/we overcome them? All children are different with different temperaments, everybody has a special execution speed. It was hard to entertain children with a high execution speed, to make them still interested in a task.
5. What did I learn about myself? What did I learn about other people?  I understand that children with me wondering.
6. What abilities, attitudes and values have I developed? Even at the age of 6 everyone is a personality, we shouldn’t treat all alike.
7. Did anyone help me? Whom have I interacted with? We were working together, under Lesya’s managing.
8. How did this activity benefit other people or institutions? It was a new form of work, which children have never been faced with, but they liked it and worked productively.
9. What would I change if I were to do this again? I think we should focus on children with a high and low execution speeds, offer extra tasks for the fastest.
10. How can I apply what I have learned to other situations? I can open a craft club in a “Love’s bridge” and I can use my skills there.