The document summarizes a student's observation of preschool children eating fruits during snack time at Centenary Seven Oaks Child Care Centre. The student observed that the preschoolers were served a variety of fruits like apples, bananas, oranges, and peaches. Most children were able to correctly identify the colors and shapes of fruits. The children enjoyed eating the fruits and often asked for more. The student created a KWHL chart to plan fruit-based activities exploring colors, textures, tastes, where fruits come from, and what can be made from fruits.

1. Centennial College Early Childhood Education
Student Name: JUNNIFER VILLANUEVA
Agency: CENTENARY SEVEN OAKS CHILD CARE CENTRE
Age range of children: 2 ½ to 5
Centre Focus: AN EMERGENT CURRICULUM
ANECDOTAL OBSERVATION POSSIBLE CUES
Every Thursday and Friday during my
placement, I observed that the Developmental Cues
preschool children eat their fruits during
snack and lunch time. The centre
served different kinds of fruits like Able to classify shapes and colors
apples, bananas, cantaloupe, oranges,
peaches and sometimes fruit cocktail. Able to name the different kinds of
fruits
During snack time the ECE assigned
me to serve the children. I asked the Enjoys singing simple songs (Ages and
children what is the color of the Stages)
banana? Most of them answered
yellow. What is the shape of the Answers what and where questions?
apple? Some said round. (Ages and Stages)
When I was slicing the apples, we all
sang “I like to eat apples and bananas. Physical Development
Most of them ate more than 2 slices
while other requested for more. Some Can feed self (Ages and Stages)
days the centre served canned peach
slices and fruit cocktail with syrup. The Can feed self with spoon (Ages and
children used their hands while others Stages)
used the spoon. All the children sipped
the juice in the bowl.
The children always finished the fruits
every snack and lunch time. Lets us
guess what fruit we will have for snack
tomorrow?

2. Possible Interests Web:

3. Small group experience (circle) to confirm interest in the topic:
(describe all parts of your circle)
I brought a tray of fruits with different color, shape and size for the
children to explore using their senses. I started the conversation by
asking them what fruits they like. The children liked the fruits they
saw on the tray. Other children mentioned fruits like kiwi, strawberry,
pear, and etc. We discussed about the colors of the fruit, the children
mentioned like yellow, orange, green. I asked them: where can you
find fruits? One said farm, other said in the supermarket. What do
you do with fruits? One answered: eat, cut, squeeze. Aside from
eating, I asked what else we can do with fruits. One answered bake
like apple pie and I told the children we can also make juice or fruit
shakes. We can also make apple sauce or fruit jams. I let the children
feel and touched the fruit and asked them what they feel, one said
soft and hard. All the children’s answers and our questions were
documented in our web.
Procedure:
Plastic bowl
Fruits (Apple, banana, grapes, orange, lemon)
Table space at the playground where we discuss and explore fruits
Consider the following and fully describe how you INTEND to explore
your chosen experience with preschoolers
 How will you introduce the experience?

4.  What lures might you use to attract the children?
 Preschoolers require support and guidance to fully explore an
experience. How will you guide and support their interactions
with the materials and each other and with you?
COLLABORATION
 Closure is important in any planned experience. How will you
end the experience with the children? What guidance strategies
would be helpful to use?
BEFORE YOU BEGIN YOUR 6 EXPERIENCES IN THE PROJECT,
COMPLETE THIS GROUP (CIRCLE) TO BE SURE OF THE
CHILDREN’S INTEREST IN THE TOPIC
Arrange a date, and time to implement your chosen experience
using the elements you defined in your procedure.
Evaluation and Reflection:
NOW THAT YOU HAVE COMPLETED THIS GROUP EXPERIENCE
(CIRCLE):
How did it go? ARE THE CHILDREN STILL INTERESTED IN THE
TOPIC?
It went really well, the children seem interested in further exploration
of the fruits.

5. WILL THE INQUIRY PROCESS WORK WITH THIS TOPIC? WHY
OR WHY NOT?
This will work for several reasons,
Allow the children to explore the fruits by themselves, but
allows collaboration with the observer.
Lots of fruits are easily available.
Allow the children to discover and explore the different textures
and taste of the fruit and what can we make out of fruit. If
question arise, the observer can assist the children by guiding
them the answers.
This activity can be ongoing because we can provide lots of
opportunities to explore in curriculum areas such as science,
math, sensory, dramatic, art and language.
We have enough time and available equipments to explore the
fruits.

6. .
Rationale:
After observing the children and speaking with them at our
playground table, I discovered that they are very interested in fruits.
Your children are naturally curious and will have many opportunities
over several weeks to explore fruits, conduct supervised experiments
and deepens their understanding of fruits. The activities will help the
children develop their cognitive, language, sensory, math and drama
skills. Let the children explore and collaborate by asking open ended
questions and through scaffolding we will be able to make the
activities interesting and fun.
This is a natural part of preschool development. You will be amazed
at what the children know and learn during our explorations
of preschool development.
During this time the children will:
Make fruit shakes
Make fruit kebobs (children’s idea)
Sort fruits according to shapes and colors
Sing songs and read books about fruits
Taste, feel, smell different kinds of fruits
Puppet show about fruits
Participate in drama (fruit store)
Draw fruits of children’s ideas
We will be posting evidence and samples of our work. Please check
in often and share this experiment with your children!
Junnifer

7. Kwhl Chart
K(know) W(what do we H(how will we L
want to know learn it
Learn numbers when
measuring the fruits
using tape measure.
Different colors What are the Math activity by Learn to sort big and
Green/ Red different colors? sorting different small fruits.
colors Learn sorting different
colors of fruits.
Learn to count the
fruits that we had on
our activity.
In making fruit kebab,
children learn the
Soft and hard What are the Sensory activity different textures of
different by touching, fruit, like soft and
textures? feeling, hard by touching and
squeezing the holding.
Learn to use wood
fruits. skewer to make fruit
kebabs.
Learn different taste
like sweet and sour.
Learn different taste
of fruits like sweet
Sweet and sour How does the Sensory activity and sour.
lemon taste? / by tasting.
grapes taste?
Learn an art in
making fruit kebabs
Small and round Compare the Art activity by by designing how to
shapes of the making fruit make and what
fruit. kebabs or sequence of fruit they
drawing the fruit will put first.
Learn the different
on the paper. shapes of cut fruits.

8. Learn to trace fruits
on papers.
Learn which fruits
have seed like apples,
Seeds Which fruits Science activity avocado, etc.
have seeds? by growing the Learn the different
different kinds of sizes of seeds like
seeds and small and big seeds.
Learn different shapes
classifying seeds. of seeds like round
and flat.
Learn through books
the different kinds of
Tree Which fruits Language fruits.
come from a activity by using Learn where plants
tree? books showing grow, like garden.
different kinds of Learn that fruit plants
needs water.
fruit trees. Learn more
vocabularies in the
story.
Learn to tell story in
puppet show.
Farm and Where can we Dramatic play by Learn the different
supermarket find fruits? doing fruit store vitamins we get from
and puppet show fruits.
of fruits. Learn to role play and
play pretend to
develop language.
Bake, What can we Science activity Learn how to make
banana shake.
Juice and fruit make out of by making fruit Learn that when we
shakes fruits? shakes, juice and grind the ice and mix
baking. with milk it will
become liquid
(shake).

9. DOCUMENTATIONS