AN ABILITY: 

3.2 Shows competence in observing & planning for literacy & numeracy experiences & environs, adapting to specific learner needs, interests & contexts     

According to the "The  Kindergarten Programe" the teacher  should observe and listen, act as facilitators to guide children with thoughtful, open-ended questions.

• encourage children to observe and talk
among themselves and to the teacher
provide a rich variety of materials and
resources, and strategically question
and observe children to clarify, expand,
or discover the children’s thinking

• model how to plan, observe, and reflect

• listen to the children to help them make connections between prior knowledge and new discoveries

• demonstrate how to share and discuss
new ideas

When i was working in a kindergarten during the ten days observation period i saw that during mat time when the teacher read the stories to the children they seemed very enthusiastic most of them seemed involved. I noticed that children especially liked to listen to the the story called "Where's the green sheep" by Mem Fox and Judy Horeck, so during my four week blocks i decide to do the story again as a part of my lesson plan. I selected seven children of ages Three and Four, the main purpose behind selecting this particular story was that i had previously  observed that children were really interested in this story and it also had many mathematical and literacy concepts for children to learn for example it had different literacy words   numbers of the sheeps, colours and the concepts of  over, under, more, far, close. But i tried to do it in a different manner i used a pop up version of this story and incorporated different emotions to make the story more realistic and to make them understand different emotions like made happy and sad faces,which they replicated and at the end of the story i put a chair and tried to make them understand the concepts of up and down. I also tried to make the story interested by engaging them and by asking "But where's is the green sheep" and all of them would repeat the words and each time when the word came up they would get involved and would say but  " where is the green sheep". This experience gave me a confidence that i can engage children in story reading and can enhance their literacy and numeracy experiences.

EYLF LEARNING OUTCOME:

Children are confident and involved learners as they seemed involved in the literacy and numeracy concepts in the story .

LINK:

http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/curriculum/elementary/kindercurrb.pdf