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Anecdotal Observation 1 - The Caterpillar

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Anecdotal Observation 1 - The Caterpillar

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Z took the book with a caterpillar on the cover and gave it to the teacher, while saying "AYA...book". Z held the teacher's hand. The teacher guided Z to the table and asked Z if she wanted to read the caterpillar book together.  Z said "yah!". As teacher and Z sat down along the table, S, who was sitting at the other table, looked at the caterpillar book and came to sit and looked at the teacher. The teacher said "S, you wanna join us reading the caterpillar book?" S smiled. The teacher said, "so let's start with it. What can you see on this book?" S said "Butterfly!" Then the teacher asked, "how do a butterfly move?" And the teacher started to move her arms like the butterfly's moving wing. Z then pointed at the caterpillar on the book cover. The teacher asked, "oh what is this?" Z said, "da-la". The teacher then said the word "caterpillar" slowly for twice. Z said, "Ca-da-pla". After the teacher have read the book Z closed the book and looked at the cover. She pointed at the caterpillar. The teacher asked, "what will the caterpillar grow to be?" S said "butterfly!" with smile. The teacher continued to ask, "What else?" S looked at the teacher with smile. After several seconds, S said, "Cocoon!"

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Inference Statement: It appears that the children are interested in the life and movement of the caterpillar.

Evidence: In the observation, S and Z had expressed their interest in the caterpillar through meaningful conversations and their facial expressions (smile). Z had also flipped back to look again at the caterpillar on the book cover although she was not expressing her interest verbally.

Support/Validate: According to ELECT, children at 2.5 to 6 years old can “make logical connections; identify what precedes change; presenting their ideas to others through telling and movement” (ELECT, 2014).

Conclude: To scaffold children's learning, I am planning to provide opportunities for children to observe the real caterpillar's growth (Changed to virtual due to the pandemic restrictions), and represents their learnings in creative ways.

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How can children explore caterpillars to learn about different stages in the life cycle of a caterpillar?

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Virtual Field Trip (Common Experience) - Science

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Virtual Field Trip (Common Experience) - Science

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(64) The Butterfly Conservatory in 360 - YouTube

(64) Metamorphosis: Caterpillar to Butterfly for Children - FreeSchool - YouTube

1.What event can be used to focus the children’s attention on this topic?
☑ Video ☑ Related objects ☑ Discussion ☑ Dramatic play

Related objects: Eggs, Caterpillars, Chrysalis (Cocoon), butterflies, leaves, branches, flowers, etc.

Show the pictures and videos which describes the caterpillars life cycle.

Discussions: Asking open-ended questions (What does caterpillars eat? What colors do a caterpillar/ butterflies has? Where do caterpillars lives? How caterpillars/butterflies move? Where do the caterpillars hang themselves when they are about to grow to a butterfly?)

Dramatic play: The life of a caterpillar and the movement of caterpillars/ butterflies

2.How might you involve parents in focusing events?

Share children's ideas with parents

Share the investigating topic with families and encourage children to find anything related to the topic to bring from home/ the community.

Suggest places for parents to bring children for a trip to see the caterpillars.

Share children's success by documenting and posting children's works on the parent communication board in centre.

3.What do the children already know about this topic?
How can their knowledge be recorded?
☑ Web ☑List of questions ☑ Drawings/constructions ☑ Recording discussions

Children already know the caterpillar will grow to be butterflies.

How the adult butterfly flies

Their  knowledge can be recorded in the webbing, transcripts, or artifacts.

4.What resources can be used to stimulate interest and clarify questions?
🗹Artifacts 🗹 Parent contributions  🗹 Books  🗹 Field trips

5.What opportunities will you provide for children to show what they already know about the topic?

Drawing or forming a caterpillar/ butterfly with loose parts

Collaborative web for children to add their ideas

Bring children to the nature to gather loose parts for building a "home" for the cocoon

Invite children to describe the stages of the caterpillar's life cycle

Bring real caterpillars/ butterflies to the classroom for children to discuss

How are they beginning to explore the topic?

Showing children pictures of caterpillars and the butterflies.

Labelling different stages in caterpillar's life cycle.

6.What can be done to encourage representation?
Children can be encouraged to present findings in various ways including:

A drama performance of the caterpillar's life cycle

Prepare costumes represent the stages of caterpillars growth for the drama

Artifacts that children made

A caterpillar dance

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Metamorphosis: Caterpillar to Butterfly for Children - FreeSchool

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Dear families,

Hope you are all doing well.

My name is Monique Ting, a final year student from Early Childhood Education program at Centennial College.

This week, I am very excited to have our little explorers engage in the project about caterpillars' life cycle. This project is developed by children's demonstrated interest in the caterpillars. Children have been learning how the caterpillars grow to be beautiful butterflies on a virtual field trip. With this and the coming learning experiences that I have been planning and working together with Ms. Damaris, Ms. Selena and Ms. Anush, children will learn that there are different stages in ones' life, and appreciate the beauty of nature. More importantly, they will understand the import to treasure every single creation in nature as they all have lives.

During the investigation, there will be different opportunities for children to develop in different domains (i.e. Physical, Social, Emotional, Cognitive, and Language) with experiences in different curriculum areas. There will be activity combining art and engineering for children to express the ideas that they have learned from the virtual field trip and the observations they have from daily life. The activity will enhance children's ability to understand cause-and-effect, and how actions will lead to different outcomes. Moreover, there will be also mathematics activities that children will match different shapes to the big butterfly which helps them to practice their ability in identifying shapes and matching them. In these activities, children will also practice both their big and small muscles. This project is providing opportunities for children to express their ideas in their own unique and creative ways. While sharing materials provided, appreciating their peers work and learning to respect them, they will strengthen their social and emotional understanding on how the world around them works, and how collaboration is important in the real world.

This is a collaborative project which children will gain experiences on contributing as a group to work the best for a project. We would also like to invite all parents to bring children to the nature for further investigation on the topic: Caterpillar. As the weather is going warmer, there will be lots of opportunities that children can have a close observation and explore the nature. Have fun!

Thank you.

Sincerely,

Ms. Monique