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Two Points: This is MY method, and not necessarily right for you, your teaching or care philosophy, your set-up, or your students. Curriculum participation by my students is VOLUNTARY. I invite them to participate, but if they choose not to, then that is fine. I usually offer them a choice of a few of the activities and let them decide where we start and where we go. An engaged child learns, a dis-engaged child rebels. The 3-year rotating curriculum is theme based. Some times we stick to the plan, but usually I observe what they are interested in learning about, what they are asking questions about, and suggest up to three different themes they can choose from for us to study. I make my own 3-year rotating curriculum for many reasons: Packaged curriculum is often only one year. Since I teach for 3 years, this would be redundant. Most packaged curriculum focuses on skills my students master early. My 2s count to 20, know 11 colors, know most of their phonics, uppercase and lowercase letters, 10 shapes and some of their numbers and I still have 3 years of curriculum to teach them. They often are worksheet intensive. My students usually are cognitively advanced from their fine motor skills. I have 4 year olds that still can't write well. If I had relied on worksheets for the last 2 years, there is no way they would have the skill sets they have. Worksheets are also not considered Developmentally Appropriate Practice [DAP] for children under the age of 8. We use them here for writing practice starting at age 4. [Yes, worksheet-intensive public schools are not using DAP for kindy through 3rd grade!] They can be expensive. If you are purchasing worksheets, why would you spend even $1 a week/$52 a year when you can purchase a 400 page Scholastic preschool workbook from Sam's Club for $8 that covers probably more material, is most likely aligned with the public school expectations, and is colorful. Colored copies are NOT affordable to make from packaged curriculum. Most [ALL!] preschool learning should be interactive. Pinterest is a better source for ideas. My students change every time I do a theme. I have to be able to tweak it to the interests and capabilities of those currently in my care. Plus, I'll find more interesting activities on Pinterest, have an idea for a new game, etc. It's a constant evolution to keep my curriculum relevant to our current group, situation and resources. However, curriculum planning and creation is very time consuming. Even with older curriculum I spend several hours going over it prior to teaching - updating, creating new materials, purchasing and setting new classroom decorations. While I have had my 3 year curriculum, this year I found myself wanting a more specific schedule to focus on specific skill sets for this particular group of children. Most of these skills can be incorporated into our themed curriculum, or they take 5 minute sessions to pop into our day. I have two groups, the younger preschoolers are 2-3 years old and the older ones are 4-5 years old, all at the same developmental and skill set level within their group. This makes it easier, as I can tailor everything to just 2 groups. If I were to have additional levels of children, then it would be tailored to each level. Children here are taught at their developmental level, not age. Asychronastic development is normal, so I may be teaching a child at various levels depending upon the subject matter. For the younger preschoolers, I came up with this structure. For the older pre-k students, I came up with this one. For instance, both of them have Measurement & Comparison on Friday for Reasoning. However, for the younger students, this would be a more/less, longer/shorter, big/little, etc. activity, while the older students would be measuring with rulers, yardsticks, tape measures, measuring cups, unit blocks, foot steps or themed units, and graphing the measurements to compare. Same skill set, differentiated at vastly different levels. Even this needs conditional tweaking. All the pre-k's know how to spell their last names now, so that is no longer a relevant skill activity for music and will be changed out. In another post I'll get into the curriculum components and the importance of each. For instance, how counting on Friday teaches 1-to-1 correspondence and creating method processes for counting groups of objects. CLICK PICTURES TO VIEW LARGER I use this MS Word template, available for FREE on TPT, for curriculum planning. Often, the daily skill sets above are either already incorporated, or can easily be incorporated, into the theme planning. For an example of a completed curriculum unit, check out our Owls Theme. Each monthly theme is broken down into 4 sub-themes. For instance: SPACE Astronauts & Rockets The Universe Our Solar System Aliens & Robots We also have a musical component, often classical, and an art component, often a master, and Spanish vocabulary component that we incorporate. This planning form may not include all games, file folder games, manipulatives, room-set up, etc. that I utilize. For those of you trained in curriculum creation, I do NOT do a full curriculum development for each activity. With having these children usually from infant to school-age, I keep an internal evaluation of progression and plan out only weekly learning objectives. Since I am creating the activities for my personal use, I do not need to create written procedures and evaluations. My curriculum is stored currently in file folders in a large office bookcase unit. I would like to get it into boxes so that I could have EVERY theme-related item, including dress-up, room set-up, manipulatives, etc. together for an easy pull. File boxes will most likely be the easiest, but they do take up a lot of space. In each file some of the things I probably have: Completed planning sheets All the books I own for that theme Flannel board Sentence and word walls File folder games Samples of previous crafts DVDs CDs Coloring pages Mini-book(s) Build-a-[theme item] game Curriculum creation is one of my great joys. I love the research and compilation, the creativity and excitement of bringing something fun and educational to my students. Learning is rarely linear. Children take developmental leaps, sometimes in odd directions. As a teacher, it is important that I keep each one challenged without pushing or inhibiting their growth, and that takes constant evaluation and a good eye for when those leaps happen so that we can move on to a higher level of instruction. When we do an activity, I constantly question if they WANT to do another round, another activity, and I usually cut them off while they are still engaged. I want them wanting more, and they will usually ask if they can continue. One of the most important desires and abilities I can instill in them is that of self-directed learning. So as they choose to go off with their rulers after we've spent several minutes doing a measuring activity, conferring between themselves as to procedures and what to measure next, I step back and let them. They know I am here as a resource, rather than an intrusive director. It is my job to ensure that when I invite my students to learn, they glow with excitement and anticipation of a fun, interactive, playful time. The results, so far, have been astounding. A few of my complete curriculum units are available through my TPT store. Apples Dental Ice Cream Penguins Rainbows St. Patrick's Day Valentine's Follow Connie -'s board Classroom on Pinterest. Tags: preschool, child care, pre-k, curriculum, development, teaching, education, homeschooling, homeschool, home, school, preschool curriculum development, planning
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My previous post gave you a preview of a project for my Studio students. Here I am going to share a bit more how I am going to work to incorporate some Common Core into this unit, as well as more details of what I hope to accomplish with this unit. Now, I know some of you may think that this project I want them to do is a little elementary, and to an extent I agree, but let me explain why I am starting off a little "easy". I have not had this group of students since 6th grade, which was my 1st year of teaching. When I taught them, I did not really touch on the elements and principles very much. Only recently, as I have gotten a good grasp on how the school year goes, have I really focused my elementary curriculum on incorporating those important art ideas. I also know that the previous high school teacher may have slightly touched on these elements and principles in 7th grade, but the retention rate of this information is very low from 7th grade to 9th grade, particularly since interest in the art department in high school students has dropped the last few years and students don't receive art in 8th grade. I also know that the previous teacher did not do much for writing/Common Core type assignments with the students, so I want to break them in easy...I'm hoping by starting out with a simple project for what is often viewed as "boring" subject matter will get me some positive results. Ideally, as the next few years move on, the incoming 9th graders will hopefully be retaining more of the elements and principles from their years in the elementary room and I won't have to spend an entire unit on the topic, but we'll see how the next few years go! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- As I said in my previous post, I will be utilizing this Art Talk textbook for Studio Art. I'm not extremely happy with how the content is laid out in this book, so I will most definitely not be following it from start to finish throughout the year, but I will be using it where it fits with my curriculum. I plan to supplement using the Scholastic Art magazine and possibly with printouts from this awesome website that was shared on the Art Teachers Facebook page...This website is called Boundless and it is a free resource to print off excerpts from textbooks! Now, it appears from what I've read that the art history textbook is definitely for high school. The particular textbook they have online is actually one of the editions of a textbook I have from college, Gardner's Art Through the Ages. Goals: By the end of this unit, students will be able to… · Identify the purposes of art. · Identify sources and ideas that lead to artistic inspiration. · Name the six elements of art · Identify the principles of art · Explain how subject, composition, and content relate to works of art · Identify information presented in a credit line In using Marzano, it is expected that students will know what their learning objectives/expectations are for each unit and/or project, so I have the learning objectives on the front of the unit note packet. Chapter 1: Lesson 1: What is Art? The first section of chapter one in the textbook deals with asking the question, "What is art?" We will talk about what media constitute as being part of the visual arts, what it means to perceive, and what the purposes of art are. Chapter 1: Lesson 2: Why Do Artists Create? This section obviously deals with what inspires artists to create, whether it is for personal or commissioned purposes, influenced by the media, government, war, family, etc. Chapter 1: Lesson 3: The Language of Art The final section of the first unit deals with the language of art...a.k.a. the elements and principles. This is where the art project I showcased in my previous post will come into play. This section also talks about the credit line in an artwork (name, title, medium, date, location, etc.). This will lead to a good segue to teaching students how to properly maintain and display their artworks. As students start to create 2-D artwork, I plan to teach them how to properly mat their artwork using a mat board cutter. Teaching Calendar For each unit I create, I plan on creating an anticipated teaching calendar within the unit plan. I still use a hand-written plan book, but having a plan of action for each unit will make it easier to plan around assemblies and such, especially when it's time to go on maternity leave. I'm hoping that I can have enough of these units planned out in advance so that all I need to do is hand the entire unit over to my substitute and he or she will be able to handle my plans! As part of Marzano, it's important that students reflect upon what they have learned, thus the bell ringer and exit slip. I know many teachers probably already do this but it was something I struggled with doing at the elementary level. I struggled with trying to figure out a quick way to accomplish a written review at the end of every class and have yet to really have something I'm happy with. Until then, I'm confident the system I have chosen to use with the high school will work, and hopefully I can figure out how to alter it and use it at the elementary level. The following are homework assignments that will be assigned to students to help learn the vocabulary. I couldn't find a word search or crossword that included all the vocabulary I wanted, so I found two great websites that you can use for FREE to create your own! I found this Word Search Generator on A to Z Teacher Stuff. You type in the words you want to include, give it a title, and choose the shape and size of the word search space. Click on "Create Puzzle" and it generates the word search! You can either save the webpage to your computer, print it directly from the page that pops up (and then photo copy) or do like I did, copy and paste it into Microsoft Word to make it a document. To create the crossword puzzle, I used Discovery Education's Puzzlemaker. Again, you give it a title, decide the number of squares for the size, and then enter the information. For this one, it's a little different. You have to type the answer first (one word, or if you do two words, type them without the space) and then hit the space bar and type in the clue, all on the same line without any commas. If your clue goes onto the second line, it's fine, you just hit return to go to the next clean line to enter the next word and clue. Create the puzzle, and it's the same process as the word search to save. I've seen various versions of a worksheet like this on Pinterest. Currently, I do not have this worksheet planned into my unit, but I have it as a backup for many situations that could arise. If I need to have a sub, this can be a sub plan...I may use this as a sketchbook assignment, an extra credit assignment for the first quarter, or as a review assignment for when I'm on maternity leave. Again, this is the project the students will be completing that deals with the elements. I have included the rubric here that I will be using to grade them as well.
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The Circle Game asks students to come up with as many different things as they can from one circle. I thought this activity was really fun! However, my elementary students were not that interested. Most of my kids' papers were dull circles with a scribble on them. I think older kids might "get it" better. I have included the handout from Ande Cook's Art Starters as well as my lesson plan with all the directions for a sub. The Ande Cook handouts were part of a SchoolArts subscription, or you can get her book: Art Starters
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