Jenna Trumble

ECE 232
12/03/2021
Health/Nutrition Experience
 
Class average age (in months): 8 months
 
Primary Objective & Infant Toddler Standards (You must list specific guidelines or
content standards and which domain: See above Example)

Fine Motor Development, Reaching for objects with one hand

Begin to develop skills that lead to Math concepts,  Look at an object in his hand for a longer period of
time

 
 
Secondary Objective & Infant/Toddler Standards:

 Five to eight months, Language Development, Begins to develop skills involved in conversation with
others, Use his voice to express happiness or unhappiness

 
Experience description:
 
 Children will be given a bin of dirt and vegetables. A bucket of water will also be next to
the child for the child to put a vegetable in the water to clean it.
 
 
Materials
 2 medium bins with lids
1 bag of organic soil
2 Onions
2 Potatoes
4 Carrots
1 Round bin
Water
 
 
Scaffolding (child’s prior knowledge to build on):
 
 The child has played in dirt and water before so the adding onto that knowledge the
child will learn how vegetables grow in dirt and the washing process of them.
 
 
 
 
Plan for carrying out experience (what caregiver will do):
 
 I will introduce the vegetables to the child by pulling out each vegetable and saying
what each one is. I will then offer one to the child to hold and examine. I will talk about
the color of each vegetable. I will smell the onion then give offer it to the child to see if
they would like to smell it. After the child explores in the dirt, I will show the child me
putting a carrot in the water bucket to clean the carrot off. I will talk about how we after
we get our vegetables from the ground, we need to clean them off so we could
eventually eat them. I will encourage the child to put their hand in the water to feel that
it is wet and cold.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Assessment
A.  How would you be able to determine the success of this activity?
 I think that given the circumstances of the day with only having one child in the
classroom it went as well as it could have. I feel that if I was able to have more children
interested in the experience, I was doing the child would have been more interested. The
child is also normally getting tired around the time that they go outside so I think that
the child was also tired. Ms. Julia was also trying to get him to play in the little ball pit
she had set up and the child was not interested. I did ask Ms. Julia if I could bring my
experience back on Tuesday to show the other children in the classroom and give them
this experience.
 
 
B.  Did you feel children's knowledge base will change after this experience?  (Do I see
this new knowledge being learned in other areas?
 
 It is hard to say if the child learned anything new. I do think that the child was able to
learn new textures because the child was holding the vegetables in their hands.