WITC Activity Plan

Your Name: Cali Buhrow

Learning Experience Title: ways we exercise Ages of Children: Preschool
Type of Learning Experience: (check all that apply)
 Creative Art  Social Studies  Social
 Sensory Play
 Literacy & Language  Gross Motor  Emotional
 Health/Safety
 Dramatic Play  Fine Motor  Community Building
 Cooking/Nutrition
 Music & Movement  STEM  Other:
 Nature/Outdoor

Learning Experience Presentation Type: (check one)

 Large Group—all children  Small Group—a portion of  Activity choice during free play
participating at the same the children participating
time at the same time
Number of children participating at the same time:
Skills (what children will do):
Placing different activites under yes or no if they are for exercise
Children will exercise

Concepts (what children will learn/know):

Learn different exercises
Heatlhy life style

This learning experience has been planned to feature the following WMELS performance standards:
I Physical health and development A.El. 3 Demonstrates a healthy life style
I Motor development B.EL. 1 B Moves with strength, control, balance, coordination, locomotion, and endurance
I Physical Health and Development A.EL.2 Demonstrates Behaviors to meet safety needs.

Why have you chosen to do this experience? What observations have you made about the development, interests,
needs of individuals or groups of children in your care?
I have observe that the children love using their large motor skills, such as running when were outside and doing
yoga inside. This would give them a new way to use their large motor skills.

Specific list of space and/or materials needed including colors, amounts, sizes, etc.

Room for children to move

Board
Tape
Exercise and not exercise activites card for children to put up on the board
Source of materials:
 All are available at the center/in the classroom
 Provided, in part, by cooperating teacher
 I am providing the following: activity card, is this excerise, and yes or no.

Teacher preparation needed before activity presentation, i.e. mixing paint, cutting paper, construction of flannel
board characters, etc.
create and laminated exercises and not exercises cards, is this exercises, yes and no. put tape or a magnate on the
back.
Teaching Sequence of the Learning Experience
Set-up and arrangement of materials and equipment
Place all the items in circle time area, place is this exercise and yes and no yup on the boared.

Transition Planning: Describe how the children will transition into the learning experience. Transition in to the
activity (preschool) OR Incorporation of individual child routines (infant/toddler).
I will have the children sing with me my thumbs are starting to wiggle.

Procedure: What is the teacher’s role (what will you do) during this learning experience? What will the children do
during the learning experience? (Remember children are active, hands-on learners!). List all the steps in your activity
using numbers or bullet points, including an introduction and conclusion.
Have all the children sit down and hand each one of them a card with either an exercise or not exercise activity on
it and then explain to them that one at a time they will come and put their card up under yes or no for if it is
excerise. After every child has put up their card, go through and ask them why they put their card where they did?
Once we go through rather it is exercise or not we will do all the exercise we placed up there together. We will then
sit back on the floor and we will take 3 deep breathes

Questions to support inquiry and discussion and vocabulary words to introduce.

Rather their card was exercise or not
Why did you place your item where you put it

How will the learning experience area be cleaned up? (How will the children help in this process? Where will the
leftover materials be put? Where will the children’s art work be placed?)
Take all items and place by teacher stuff

Transition Planning: Describe how the children will transition out of the learning experience.
Ask one child at a time what their favorite excerise was and have them demonstrate it, then dimiss the child to the
next activity
 Notes on Differentiation, Guidance, Family Culture, and other group-specific considerations.
Some children may need help doing the exercises and help placing their card on the board

ACTIVITY PLAN ASSESSMENT BY SUPERVISING TEACHER – This completed plan must be submitted to your
instructor for grading prior to implementing with children:

/5 Activity plan is developmentally appropriate (age appropriate, individually appropriate, culturally

appropriate)
/5 Activity plan follows best practices (play-based, open-ended, multi-sensory,hands-on)
/5 Professional presentation/spelling & grammar is correct/form is completely filled out

Once the Activity Plan has been assessed by the Supervising Teacher, make any changes to your plan and
then teach it. Make sure both you and your Cooperating Teacher have printed copies of the plan and the
evaluation forms that follow.
 POST-TEACHING ACTIVITY PLAN EVALUATIONS
Self-Evaluation of Learning Experience: The following questions should be answered as soon as possible after
presenting the activity in the classroom.
Reflect on your success. Describe what went well.

Did the learning experience support the developmental skills, concepts, and standards that you planned to support?
How do you know?

What changes would you make in the space and/or materials used in this learning experience? All recommended
changes should be supported with examples of the children’s participation. If you said, “no change,” support your
response.

What changes would you make in your teaching of this learning experience? Support each change you list. If you said,
“no change,” support your response.

Would you do this learning experience again? Why or why not?

TOTAL SCORE FOR THIS ACTIVITY: /5 points

Cooperating Teacher Evaluation of Learning Experience: The following questions should be answered during or as soon
as possible after student presented the activity in the classroom.
Reflect on the successes. Describe what went well.

Did the learning experience support the developmental skills, concepts, and standards that the student planned to
support? How were you able to tell that the learning goals were met?

What changes would you suggest for the space and/or materials used in this learning experience? Please support all
recommended changes with examples. If you said, “no change,” pleae explain why not.

What changes would you suggest for the teaching of this learning experience? Please explain each change you list or if
you said, “no change,” support your response.

Do you think this learning experience should be repeated? Why or why not? Any other suggestions or tips or
comments?

TOTAL SCORE FOR THIS ACTIVITY: /5 points

Adapted from The Registry (2018)