The document describes interactions and planning activities for preschoolers, focusing on four children: Kaden, Lucy, Damien, and Gabriella. It details their preferences, an art lesson on creating a splatter paint box, and reflections on engagement levels where girls showed high enthusiasm compared to the boys. The planning process emphasized learning about preschooler development and aimed to improve future lessons for better engagement of all children.

1. Focus On Children
Erin Sternhagen & Melanie Selken
Damien, Gabriella, Kaden, Lucy
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2. Kaden & Lucy
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3. Kaden & Lucy
Kaden -
Age 5
Kaden is very quiet
His favorite is dramatic play and he loves sand
Lucy -
Age 5
Loves to be creative, and color
Very energetic
makes a picture for Melanie all the time
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4. Damien & Gabriella
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5. Damien & Gabriella
Damien -
Age 5
Loves to play with his baby brother
very quiet and calm, loves to play at the toy center
Gabriella -
Age 5
Attempts to play with her sister
Doesn’t mind moving around to different stations
always gives hugs to Erin
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6. Planning Process
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7. Planning Process
✴ We studied all about preschoolers and
development.
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8. Planning Process
✴ We studied all about preschoolers and
development.
✴ Chose our buddies off a list randomly.
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9. Planning Process
✴ We studied all about preschoolers and
development.
✴ Chose our buddies off a list randomly.
✴ We visit our buddy once every week to get to
know them and understand them.
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10. Planning Process
✴ We studied all about preschoolers and
development.
✴ Chose our buddies off a list randomly.
✴ We visit our buddy once every week to get to
know them and understand them.
✴ Based on what we know about them we
chose an activity we think all four of them
would like to do. Together we panned an
activity.
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11. Lesson Plan
✴ Subject: Art
✴ Our Objective: To be able to create a
splatter paint box using creativity and
art skills.
✴ Our safety concerns would be paint in
the eyes or mouth.
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12. Splatter Box
✴ Materials Needed: Paint (different
colors), paint brushes, rubber bands,
shoe boxes, paper, aprons
✴ We wrapped the rubber bands around
our shoe boxes and opened all the
paint.
✴ Soon we gave them brushes and they
would go to work running the brush
along the rubber bands and creating
splatters.Friday, May 1, 15

13. Reflection
✴ Positives:
✴ They were very excited as we said,
“Ready to get messy and paint?!”
✴ They got right to it and enjoyed it
✴ They girls wanted to keep painting
over and over with more paper.
✴ Level of Student Engagement:
Girl: High Boys: Low
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14. Reflection Cont.
✴ We understand our buddies more
✴ Our planning process took up a lot of
our time so it turned out better.
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15. Unexpected:
✴ The boys were not as excited to paint
as the girls were. They wanted to be
done.
✴ They girls were overjoyed with
happiness
✴ We did not get as messy as we
thought!
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16. Next Time
✴ Try and make it more educational and
enjoyable for the boys and make it
equal.
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