Observation Task 8: Activity types

Focus: Learner activities

Throughout the day, make notes in the table below.

In your journal today write about the activities the
learners were engaged in.

Activity

Individual/group
/class

Circle time

Whole class

Artistic
expression
area

Individual

Purpose
Because in this
area the teacher
explain for the
children the
lessons and the
children should
respond the
teacher when she
ask them a
question, so
everyone should
attend this area
Because each
member in this
area like to be
alone to color the
paper or to play
with the clay (play
dough), so they
are using their
imagination to
improve it when
they play with the
clay
Because all the
member like to
concentrate in

Teacher
directed/ch
ilds choice

Teacher
directed

childs
choice

Reading
area

Individual

Search and
discovery
area

Individual

Area
cognitive
Games

Individual /
group

Acting Area

group

their story and

they use their
imagination when
they read, so the
stories help the
children to
broaden their
imagination to
imagen also to be
creative in the
future
Because the child
like to discover the
things alone and
to improve their
mental capacities,
so they like to
discover the
world!
Sometimes the
children like to
play alone to think
but most of the
time they play in
group to solve the
puzzle and to be
Cooperative group
also to develop
their cognitive
abilities
The acting area is
relate it to the
lesson. For
example, if the
lesson about the
animals, so there
are some animals
in the area. If it
about the
transportation, so

childs
choice

childs
choice

childs
choice

childs
choice

there are some

materials about it.
Most of the time
the children like to
play or act in a
group to be more
fun for them and
to be creativity
and cooperativity
in the area

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