Small-Group Time Planning Form

Originating
Idea

Sensory bin with oatmeal

Materials

Sensory bin, oatmeal

Curriculum
Content

E22. Exploring Objects

Beginning

Today friends we have oatmeal in the sensory bin, Who

eats oatmeal at home? To be eat oatmeal we must cook
it, there are cooking tools for you to work with the
oatmeal today.

Opening
Statement

Middle
Earlier
What will
children do?

Mouth
materials,
watch others
play in
materials

Strategies:
How will you
scaffold
their
learning?

End
warning and
transition to
next part of
routine

Support the
childs
process,
name actions/
objects. Work
alongside
child

Middle

Explore
oatmeal,
begin to use
spoons and
other cooking
materials to
move
Strategies:

Support the
childs
process,
name actions/
objects. Work
alongside
child

Friends all this oatmeal has got me hungry,

can we clean our area and make way to the
sink to wash for snack.
Follow-up
Ideas

Different sensory materials, or a lesson on

tasting cooked oatmeal.

Later

Explore the
oatmeal,
scoop and
pour oatmeal
in cooking
pots, pretend
to cook
Strategies:

Support the
childs
process,
name actions/
objects. Work
alongside
child