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I choose day 4 to exapnin how i will teach the studnets the concept of print, phonologicla awareness and letter knowledge

Pelican’s balloon

 

Author:  Joy Cowley

Illustrations: Gaia Bordicchia

Genres: fiction, fantasy

Publication Date: June 2014

Why is this book appropriate?

 

     It’s appropriate age because it’s has a big picture that helps the teacher to get their attention and engage them. It’s appropriate language level because this story was written at a low level.  Therefore, the content of the story suits the cognitive level of children at this age (4-5) years old. This story consists of simple vocabulary such us pelicans, balloon, and doll.  Therefore, children can understand the text easily.  The text is also easy for children and helps them to predict what might be going to happen next.

 

 

Age appropriate, genre characteristics

 

     This story showing simple pictures with their name, so that's help children learn what things are called, for example, balloon and pelicans. Also, This story is appropriate for KG because it has a big picture that helps the teacher to get their attention and engage them.

 

This is a fantasy story is one of a fiction genre because the characters and the events in the story have been made up by the author's imagination. The author of this story gave the characters power to talk like people. For example, when the pelican was spoken.

 

 

The student works in….

 

     The steam activity was an individual activity. I let the student to worked individually because I want every student to innovate his hot balloon.

 

 

Curriculum Standards

 

Science

KLW1: Compare and group living and non-living things.  The students recognize the different between the real pelican and the toy pelican. They identify that the toy pelican cannot fly.

 

KLW3: Describe the five senses and their corresponding body parts. They used their hands to design the hot balloon and their sight to work.

 

Math

K1SGD1: Manipulate familiar 2d and 3d shapes in exploration and play and recognize them in everyday contexts. The hot balloon materials include the 2d and 3d shapes.  The Jewelers has different 3d shapes, cube, and sphere.  Also, small pieces of colored paper formed as the circle, rectangle, triangle, and square.

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Literacy

KLTC2: listen and respond to various texts that are read aloud. The teacher will read aloud and asks questions. Then the students respond for the teacher. Read aloud help students to learn many things such as:  what fluid and expressive reading sound like. Also help them how to think aloud – Reading is Thinking “Question, prediction and connect” (Kesha, 2016)

 

KLP2: say the first sound of a word when reading. The students will say the first sound of a letter in the story, such us balloon /b/.

Activity Description

Question:

 

What did you draw?

Why you used the white glue rather than UHU stick?

Why you choose this toy?

How you make your hot balloon?

What will you do next?

How will you connect the jewelry with the cup?

Do you think your hot balloon will fly?

Why your hot balloon didn't fly?

Why your hot balloon fly? 

 

 

How  my  STEAM activity support learning within the preoperational stage of development?

 

      "Representation or Symbolic Thought helps children think through problems before acting. They begin to visualize what will happen"(David, 2014). The students did a brainstorming about the problem before start to make the hot balloon. When the students did the brainstorming, they imagined how their hot balloon would be look. The students weren't egocentrism. They used the materials together and shared some. Moreover, when they were using the glue, they were waiting for each other to take the glue (turn taking).

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Reflection

 

What did you find especially satisfying about the process or the finished product of the STEAM activity?

 

     This process showed how the students' play could provide learning in each of the STEAM disciplines. The students learned different things such as science, math, technology, and art. After they had done the hot balloon, they found out how to use Ipad to draw, use art to designed the hot balloon. The final product was amazing because the students made, without my help. That showed how this process is appropriate for KG1 students.

 

 

What did you find frustrating about it?

 

     The frustrating thing about my steam activity is to deliver the problem for the KG1 students. I tried to show them the problem in the story and how they solved to make them understood the problem.

 

What would you change if you had an opportunity to teach this STEAM activity over?

 

     In my school they allowed me to get only one group. Next time I will let whole class to do the activity. When I was working with one group, the remaining students were leaving their centers and came to me and looked at their friends, and then they told me "we want to do this." According to Vygotsky, much important learning by the child occurs through social interaction (McLeod, 2014).  

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