All About Me

Preschool age 4

Book: Marvelous Me Inside and Out

Written by Lisa Bullard

Illustrated by Brandon Reibeling

Breanna Holden ECE 155

 Activity Form
Age: 4 years old

Type of Activity: Dramatic Play

Primary Literacy Skill: Vocabulary and emergent writing

State Standard: 1. PK. 4 Recognize environmental print and symbols.

Objectives: At the end of this experience the child will have an increased ability

to…

1. Name and describe their favorite foods.

2. Identify words associated with their everyday foods.

3. Demonstrate ability to communicate and play with other children.

Materials:

• Kitchen set including play food, utensils, oven mitt, aprons.

• labels for all items (pots, pans, spoons, eggs, milk etc.)

• Cookbook with photos.

• Blank recipe and shopping lists

Activity:

1. Encourage children to talk about their favorite foods or what they had for

breakfast.

2. Allow children to move about the kitchen and explore the items and cookbook to

recreate their breakfast or favorite food.

 3. The cookbook is to help children see what they are wanting to make and to assist

in looking for items.

4. The blank recipe page is for them to write or draw new recipes

5. The blank shopping list is so they can write or draw what they need to make their

meals.

6. Teacher should engage and ask questions about their foods and open up

communication between them and other children playing in the kitchen.

7. Teacher should also encourage the use of the shopping and recipe pages.

8. Teacher should assist with making meaningful connections between shopping

lists, recipe lists and the labeled items and the corresponding words.

Scaffolding:

• Children will listen to others and engage in their own thoughts.

• Expand their vocabulary of common foods and household items.

• Work on emergent writing skills through process of play.

(Example of recipe book insert)

 BREAKFAST
Breakfast
EGGS MILK
eggs milk

Glass/ CUP
glass / cup

SCRAMBLED EGGS
Scrambled Eggs

PLATE FORK
plate fork
Recipe and shopping lists would look like this, to encourage drawing and emergent
writing. It also models the letters for them.
 Activity Form

Age: 4 years old

Type of Activity: Literacy Center

Primary Literacy Skill: Fine motor and alphabet knowledge

State Standard: 1. PK. 3 Identify letters in own name.

Objectives: At the end of this experience the child will have an increased ability

to…

• Identify letters in their own name.

• Demonstrate letter formation.

• Use fine-motor skills to manipulate objects.

Materials:

• Play foam and laminated letter cards.

• Their name card to use as reference.

Activity:

1. In literacy center students will have access to laminated letter cards and play

foam.

2. Students will be able to grab the letter cards that make up their name and form

the play foam on top of the letter.

3. Teacher is to direct children to name card to help visually assist with the proper

letter placements in their name. (Note: If the child does not want to properly place

the letters that is fine, but it is there if they want the help.)
 4. Teacher should encourage proper letter formation by following directional arrows.

Scaffolding:

• Children will build on their knowledge of the alphabetic code

• Assess knowledge of the letters that make up their name.

• Building on knowledge of placement and shape of each letter in their name.

• Demonstrate letters are lines and curves.

 Activity Form

Age: 4 years old

Type of Activity: Small group

Primary Literacy Skill: Vocabulary and emergent writing.

State Standard:

2. PK. 2 Ask questions or make comments pertinent to the story being read.

3. PK. 9 Listen to age-appropriate material that makes connections to self and the world

around them.

6. PK. 1 Experiment with writing tools and materials to communicate.

Objectives: At the end of this experience the child will have an increased ability

to…

• Discuss and describe personal qualities and traits about themselves and explain

their own pictures and writings.

• Engage in emergent writing attempts.

• Expand his/her vocabulary

Materials:

• Book- Marvelous Me Inside and Out

• Mirror

• Blank Paper

• Markers, Crayons, Colored Pencils

Activity: Build off of previous day of reading Marvelous me inside and out.

1. Hand mirrors to everyone in group (teacher gets a mirror too).

2. Discuss the book again to the class to jog their memories about the book and let

the group talk about what they liked about Alex and what they like have in

common with Alex and the other children in the group. Direct group to look at

mirror if they need help with some of the questions. Questions will include but not

be limited to these. Favorite book, movies, superhero, princess, sports, snack,

games, toys, birthday, what they want to be when they grow up, eye color, hair

color, number of noses and eyes, how many teeth. (Note: This is a free and open

discussion, help children make connections with others).

3. During discussion write children’s names and things they say down to use as

reference to help with later activity.

4. After discussion give children paper and writing and drawing utensils to begin to

write and illustrate a book all about them.

5. Teacher will ask children to start with their name and a drawing of them.

6. Continue to ask open ended questions to help assist the children in staying on

track with their drawings and write down children’s responses on paper and give

to each child as a reference for their work. Allow them to choose what they want

to include from the discussion and model writing as needed.

7. Ask if children want help labeling their drawings and writing anything they don’t

know how to.

 8. When they are done with their about me book place into individual folders for

them to take home to discuss further with their parents.

Scaffolding:

• Basic vocabulary skills to engage in discussion.

• Emergent writing skills to encourage them that there is no wrong way to write and

illustrate their about me book.