play activity
Preparation:
I had to think of a theme which I felt wouldn’t be too difficult for the children. As I am in a Naionra lots of the normal topics you would do in a playschool can be to difficult for the children to understand when trying to teach them through Irish. I spoke with my supervisor in work placement about what topics she would recommend and what topics had they done already. I was trying to choose between “my body” and “my school bag”. She felt the second topic would be more suitable and would be a topic she would cover normally during a school year. Again because this is in a naionra and to ensure the children would have an understanding of what I was discussing, the week leading up to my activity would be spent discussing this topic and doing other sorts of activities relating to it. So that when it came to my activity they would have spent the past four days learning about it.
I have attached separately my spider graph and rough work of the 5 daily activities which I prepared prior to carrying out the activity. I felt the best activity for me to carry out in the class would be the art one as the children would have spent the previous four days learning the words and this would be a fun way to go over it all.
Benefits:
It will encourage the children to use their physical abilities with the colouring & glueing.focusing on their fine motor skills. The activity will benefit their social development as they interacted with each other and the childcare workers. Their language will be encouraged and hopefully develop through speaking with one another and listening to the childcare workers speak Irish. The activity will help their intellectual development as each child will have to think about what items are to go into the school bag.
Implementation:
On the Thursday before work I printed out a copy of a large school bag for the children to colour. I found pictures of some key items you would find in a school bag and printed them. Finally I found
I had to think of a theme which I felt wouldn’t be too difficult for the children. As I am in a Naionra lots of the normal topics you would do in a playschool can be to difficult for the children to understand when trying to teach them through Irish. I spoke with my supervisor in work placement about what topics she would recommend and what topics had they done already. I was trying to choose between “my body” and “my school bag”. She felt the second topic would be more suitable and would be a topic she would cover normally during a school year. Again because this is in a naionra and to ensure the children would have an understanding of what I was discussing, the week leading up to my activity would be spent discussing this topic and doing other sorts of activities relating to it. So that when it came to my activity they would have spent the past four days learning about it.
I have attached separately my spider graph and rough work of the 5 daily activities which I prepared prior to carrying out the activity. I felt the best activity for me to carry out in the class would be the art one as the children would have spent the previous four days learning the words and this would be a fun way to go over it all.
Benefits:
It will encourage the children to use their physical abilities with the colouring & glueing.focusing on their fine motor skills. The activity will benefit their social development as they interacted with each other and the childcare workers. Their language will be encouraged and hopefully develop through speaking with one another and listening to the childcare workers speak Irish. The activity will help their intellectual development as each child will have to think about what items are to go into the school bag.
Implementation:
On the Thursday before work I printed out a copy of a large school bag for the children to colour. I found pictures of some key items you would find in a school bag and printed them. Finally I found