Comments on other students blog:
http://rainmit.blogspot.com/2011/04/discovery-about-light.html#comments
http://miriammit.blogspot.com/2011/04/blog-post-3-think-and-learn.html#comments
http://vanillayf.blogspot.com/2011/04/i-am-driver.html#comments
http://laudebra.blogspot.com/2011/04/writing-and-drawing-with-chalk.html#comments
http://laudebra.blogspot.com/2011/04/what-is-sharpener.html#comments
http://monika-prasad.blogspot.com/2011/05/technology-has-gained-acceptance-in.html#comments
http://libyjose.blogspot.com/2011/04/blog-4-yummy-yummy-pizza.html#comments
Contrubution on course blog:
http://tamarwk.blogspot.com/2011/04/children-as-competent-confident.html#comments
http://tamarwk.blogspot.com/2011/03/martin-robot-man.html#comments
http://tamarwk.blogspot.com/2011/03/welcome-to-blogging-for-people-place.html#comments
Wednesday 4 May 2011
My Reflection
My reflection
My blog of technology was a learning experience for me. It has opened my eyes to all the different technology activities that we have at the centre. Through the readings I was able to familiarise myself with technology items like the popcorn maker. I found this to be an exciting activity for the children. It was great to see some of the children jumping up and down chanting “popcorn look popcorn”!! This was also a learning experience for the teachers too as they had not seen a popcorn marker too.
The reflection I had with the balls in the trough was lovely to watch. It is amazing watching toddlers climbing into the trough not thinking about who they might be hurting in the process. In this particular situation one of the toddlers climbed on top of two other toddlers as he was trying to get into a trough filled with little plastic balls.
It was challenging trying to put pictures in also, in my first post I had placed a picture on the posts and it turned out to be too large and I could not take it off for a while. I asked people if they could help me to delete the picture but no one could help to delete the picture. Luckily I had managed to delete the picture and I had placed a note on the blog to tell others that I had successfully deleted the picture.
Technology was interesting especially when we had the speaker Martin come into class and showed us his many robot inventions. The way that he had collected his robot equipment through other people’s scraps was extraordinary.
I enjoyed reading my fellow students blogs. It was beneficial sharing their experiences and being able to see what centres the children worked alongside with.
I was also thinking back to the last class we had before the holidays. When some of the students in the class discussed having group assignments for the blog. I disagree with this and I think that working individually is a better way of learning as it offers us more challenge and rewards of how we blog and the reflections we experience in the centres. Receiving feedback from other people was rewarding and satisfying, it made me feel value in my work and I appreciated their response. The help I received was great too and being able to benefit from other people’s help for example when someone was able to help me place pictures on the blog. I felt reassured that the blog was a good thing to learn and I may use it in future endeavours.
Through the technology experiences with the children, I found that the children are quite technology aware. The children were able to perform with most of the technology uses that we have in the centre. I was unfortunate not to be able to use our computer we have for the children as one of the computers were broken and the other computer had a limited source of games. Overall the experiences that the children had with technology were gratifying and we will continue to share more experiences.
Sunday 1 May 2011
Post 4 - Balls in a trough
Today, after my lunch break I had to relieve one of the staff members from the Under 2’s area. C, the teacher that was with the children, says that we would take the children outside for a play. While outside I noticed that the water trough was empty. I asked C if she would like me to fill the trough with water. She replied that she would get some balls as the children love to play with it. At this time I was holding one of the babies, D and I sat with the other babies while C went inside.
C came back with a bag of small coloured balls. She poured the balls in the trough and later placed two of the babies U and T inside the tough to play with the coloured balls. I sat near them on the sand box while holding D. U and T smiled and reached for a ball as they started throwing them out of the trough. I said to U who started to throw the balls first “U, do you like throwing the ball?.” D the baby that I was holding was excited too, as he watched them throwing the balls. I lay D on the grass saying “There Dylan ball, get the ball”. D smiled and reached out for the ball and I placed the ball closer to him so that he could reach it as mentioned “Infants have often been described as relying on sensorimotor understandings of their world. The infant who reaches to grasp objects and then places them in the mouth is using the senses of touch and taste to explore those objects” (as cited in Arthur, Beecher, Death, Dockett & Farmer, 2008, p.79).
Meanwhile, U and T were playing in the trough when DD climbed over the top of them in the trough. U and T started to cry as DD placed his weight on top of them. I said to DD “Oh DD wait for your turn”. I lifted DD off U and T, and U stopped crying and continued to play with the balls but T was not happy he kept crying. I lifted T out of the trough and said “Okay, T let’s go and see what else we could do”. I held T and sat him on the large cushion where there were other little toys for T to play with.
As I lifted T out of the trough DD climbed in. He happily grabbed hold of some balls and started to throw the balls on the grass. I noticed that DD enjoyed sitting in the trough and playing with the balls. S a 14 months girl climbed into the trough and joined U and DD. This relates to Te Whariki, “Infants have opportunities to watch and join in with other children and to see and hear new things”, (Ministry of Education, 1996, p. 89). The children were exploring the balls and learning to share the trough with one another. DD was able to climb in and out of the trough independently, U could stand and reach for balls if he wanted to and Sina was able to move freely as well as stated "Promoting motor development in toddlers follows the same principles as that of infants. Toddlers need freedom to move and experience a variety of ways of using the skills they possess."(Gonzalez-Mena & Eyer, 2007,p.145).
References
society (4th ed.).Boston, United States of America : McGraw Hill.
C came back with a bag of small coloured balls. She poured the balls in the trough and later placed two of the babies U and T inside the tough to play with the coloured balls. I sat near them on the sand box while holding D. U and T smiled and reached for a ball as they started throwing them out of the trough. I said to U who started to throw the balls first “U, do you like throwing the ball?.” D the baby that I was holding was excited too, as he watched them throwing the balls. I lay D on the grass saying “There Dylan ball, get the ball”. D smiled and reached out for the ball and I placed the ball closer to him so that he could reach it as mentioned “Infants have often been described as relying on sensorimotor understandings of their world. The infant who reaches to grasp objects and then places them in the mouth is using the senses of touch and taste to explore those objects” (as cited in Arthur, Beecher, Death, Dockett & Farmer, 2008, p.79).
Meanwhile, U and T were playing in the trough when DD climbed over the top of them in the trough. U and T started to cry as DD placed his weight on top of them. I said to DD “Oh DD wait for your turn”. I lifted DD off U and T, and U stopped crying and continued to play with the balls but T was not happy he kept crying. I lifted T out of the trough and said “Okay, T let’s go and see what else we could do”. I held T and sat him on the large cushion where there were other little toys for T to play with.
As I lifted T out of the trough DD climbed in. He happily grabbed hold of some balls and started to throw the balls on the grass. I noticed that DD enjoyed sitting in the trough and playing with the balls. S a 14 months girl climbed into the trough and joined U and DD. This relates to Te Whariki, “Infants have opportunities to watch and join in with other children and to see and hear new things”, (Ministry of Education, 1996, p. 89). The children were exploring the balls and learning to share the trough with one another. DD was able to climb in and out of the trough independently, U could stand and reach for balls if he wanted to and Sina was able to move freely as well as stated "Promoting motor development in toddlers follows the same principles as that of infants. Toddlers need freedom to move and experience a variety of ways of using the skills they possess."(Gonzalez-Mena & Eyer, 2007,p.145).
References
Arthur, L., Beecher, B., Dockett, S., Farmer, S., & Death, E. (2008).
Programming and planning in early childhood settings (4th ed.). Victoria
Thomson. Ministry of Education. (1996). Te whāriki: He whāriki maatauranga moo ngaa
Mokopuna o Aotearoa: Early childhood curriculum. Wellington: Learning Media.
Gonzalez-Mena,.(2008).Foundations of early childhood education:Teaching children in a deversesociety (4th ed.).Boston, United States of America : McGraw Hill.
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