Naomi Cockburn

ECE 232

Sensory Experience

28 March 2021

Sensory Experience

Class average age (in months):

21 months (10 children present: ages 14 months-33 months)

Primary Objective:
• Nineteen to Twenty-Four Months: Cognitive Development, Scientific Exploration and
Learning, Begin to develop skills that lead to science concepts such as: Cause and effect

Secondary Objective(s)
• Nineteen to Twenty-Four Months: Physical Development, Coordinate Movements, Fine
Motor Development
• Nineteen to Twenty-Four Months: Language Development, Understand and
Communicate, Continue to develop listening and speaking skills

Experience description:
After reading Five Green and Speckled Frogs by Constanza Basaluzzo, the children will engage
in sensory play with toy frogs and water.

Materials
Five Green and Speckled Frogs book, plastic bins (one for each child), water, blue food
coloring, toy frogs, smocks, towels (for clean-up in case of spills)
Scaffolding (child’s prior knowledge to build on):
• Sitting and listening to story.
• Fine motor development for grasping objects.

Plan for carrying out experience (what caregiver will do):

1. Teacher will invite children to come listen to the story.
2. Introduce the book. Questions to ask: “What do you think this book is about?,” “What do
you see on the cover?,” “Where do you think a frog lives?.” Allow time for the children
to respond.
3. Begin reading or singing the story. Stop throughout the book to discuss what is
happening on the pages.
4. Once the story is finished, introduce what the sensory activity will be.
5. Show the children the toy frogs. Explain that the children will help the frogs splash into
the water, just like in the book.
6. Bring out the individual sensory bins. Fill one with some blue water (less than an inch
deep) and demonstrate how the toy frog can splash into the water.
7. Invite a few children at a time (2-3) to the table to participate in the activity.
8. Put a smock on each child. Assist the children in pouring some blue water into their bin
(less than an inch deep).
9. Pass out a few toy frogs to each child.
10. Let the children splash and play with the frogs in the blue water.
11. Reference the book, sing the song, talk about what the children are doing with their frogs
in the water.
12. Once children are done playing, clean up any spills with the towel. Dump the water from
each child’s bin into the sink. Assist each child in washing their hands.
13. Continue the sensory play with the next group of children.

Outcome (was activity of interest to children – why/why not, Was outcome what was
expected, Did something happen that wasn’t expected, What might be changed/added to
make experience more interesting to children, or other):

The sensory activity went well with the children. The children seemed to enjoy splashing in the
water with the toy frogs. We must have sung this song a thousand times today! (This is one of
our favorite books to read right now.)
There were moments where it was tough because other children wanted to play in the water right
at that moment. However, because of safety and supervision reasons, I was only working with 2
or 3 children at a time. I just had to keep reminding the children that it was this friend’s turn and
they would play next with the frogs and water.
I love that I can extend the learning with this activity by adding other props. I would like to add
lily pads made from foam or laminated construction paper so the children could balance the frogs
on top. We could also add sticks into the water to be the log from the song/story.

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