Group Time Planning Form Small Group: Matching Mailman
Originating Ideas Materials Curriculum Content Beginning Opening Statement Middle What will Children do? Children were talking about the job of a mailperson, and how the mailperson delivers the mail to everyones home Five bright colored plastic cups with matching colored bears or other animals. White paper/envelopes, glue, a mail bag Cognitive Development, Early literacy & Letter Recognition, Small Motor Development Today we are going to pretend that we a mailpersons, here we have five cups that we are going to pretend to be a house. There are letters on the front of these houses and we are going to match the letters Earlier Introduce the letters in the mailbag Introduce the houses Introduce the houses Begin to discuss how the letters are the same Middle Introduce the letters in the mailbag Later Children will match the letters in the mailbag to the envelope Children will discuss how the letters are the same
Children begin to recall names for the letters
Strategies Encourage the child to match the letters in the mailbag to the letters on the envelope
Strategies How will you Scaffold their Learning? Discuss what letters are recognized
Strategies Encourage the child to match the letters in the mailbag to the letters on the envelope
End warning and transition to next part of routine Follow-up ideas
How many letters are we able to recognize? How many letters were given to the right house? Discussion: Who remembers what letters were on the house? If your name begins with the letter A, walk over to the circle carpet. Children are able to recall some names of the letters and are matching to find the same; children can begin to make sequence/patterns using the letters
Jennifer Lyles 1414 ECD Fall 2012
