[Misbah]

One cool experience I had was creating a learning plan using interactive games that matched each child’s interests, this child loved animals, so we incorporated animal-themed activities into lessons.

[Diane]

when playing outside in the water tables, I offer a variety of cups, sponges, funnels, tubes and plastic beakers for the children to fill, pour ,measure and experiment with. We add bubbles and color changing tablets to make it even more fun.

[Vicky]

I have a student that is interested in learning about the President’s of the United States and flags of the world. I give them the opportunity to listen to a CD that list the presidents in order. They also have access to a book about the Presidents of the United States that they can use at anytime. The child is given time to use an Ipad to play a game where they hear the name of a country and they click of the corresponding flag.

[Audrey]

The children in my class are very interested in science experiments and hands-on activities. They also like to spend as much time outside as possible, so I adapted a chalk paint recipe into fizzy expanding chalk paint. The students helped measure each ingredient, choose the colors, and they all cheered when “exploded.” After the experiment they were able to use paint brushes to create murals from the chalk paint.

[Nichole]

One of the things i like To incorporate in my lesson planning is bubbles because my kids in my classroom are obsessed with them. We have even made our own bubbles

[Madeline]

During circle times, I find it’s interesting and engaging for the little ones in my class to have the books mostly sung to them. We also like to incorporate puppets that coordinate with certain songs. We ask questions about the book, and they’ll respond. All of these little things combined seem to reach all sorts of learning styles in the class!

[Diana Patricia]

One way is to create enthusiastic and fun activities that they can carry out themselves, supporting through the scaffolding to achieve their goals and objectives..

[Hannah]

One of the coolest learning experiences I had was in a KPrep classroom a few years ago. We had kinetic sand that the children loved to play and explore with, so I decided to have us make our own kinetic sand as a class. We used a large sensory table and the children helped me to measure and mix all of the ingredients (we even added some glitter to make it pretty!). The children had so much fun and got to be truly hands-on. It was well-worth the mess to see them having such a good time, and we used that sand for several months with different items added depending on our learning unit!

[Rachel Stirrett]

I have worked with infants, toddlers, and preschoolers and my favorite experience so far is in the sensory division. This is the simplest way to hold attention of students while also opening up conversations. This year I was teaching letters in the sandbox outside. I sat with them while we buried and uncovered the letters. As the letters would appear I would stop the students and say “wow that has a curve! What letters have curves? What do you think that letter could be?” They had a blast and it accommodated for multiple learning styles at once.

[chloe]

When we did a unit on weather, I made something called Rainbow stew. I had the students predict what would happen when we mixed the colors together. I gave students a paper so they could draw what the experiment looked at the beginning and then we had them dictate what they think would happen. I also had them draw what they thought it would look like. I then told the students to mix the colors together ( the mixture was in a Ziplock bag) so this was great for the kids who needed to touch the material. After we were done, I had them draw what happened and dictate what took place. I tried to reach as many learning styles as possible.

[cindy Linder]

My kids like it when I pull out the water table or bubble maker. We incorporated both one day by doing bubble painting. Added bubble solution to our water table and gave out straws with holes at top so they can’t suck it up in the straw. We added food color to water and bubble solution in table. They began blowing. They were amazed as their bubbles grew. When they got a lot of bubbles, we used white construction paper and pressed on their bubbles. They had a bubble art project.

[Shinobu Matsuya]

One child loves dinosaurs, has many dinosaur-related belongings, and often talks about dinosaurs, so I used a dinosaur picture book to expand his language knowledge and dinosaur objects to help him count numbers.

[sarah]

i had a kiddo that would sneak into cupboards and dump and pour out beads we incorporated a sensory table with rice and cups and beakers and he stopped pouring out the closed toys! He was just trying to meet a sensory need

[Mary Ellen Lago]

I remember in college I had to create a learning plan for teaching small children about hitting balls, etc. I had the idea to start with balloons (not helium) and then moved up to where they could more easily handle a ball. We even practiced hitting it with a racquet.

[ankita kapoor]

One interesting activity I did with my students was the Lifecycle of a bug. We used the very hungry caterpillar story for this. I showed them pictures on boards of a bug lifecycle its evolvement from a a larva to a full fledged butterfly and then explained the whole process. Each student was given time to speak about their observations to respect their opinions and share their viewpoint. We even explored the bugs and their contribution to nature in the outdoor activity to make it more engaging and fun activity for students. We had an informal seating plan with students sitting with ease during the indoor activity time. this lesson plan activity was covered in a week and we also had some art activities with all students drawing the butterflies etc. on last day and taking their artwork home.