EARLY LEARNING CENTRE LEARNING
EXPERIENCE
Student Name: Vanessa Uy
Purpose:
Reason for developing
learning experience. This
could be in response to an
observation, discussion with
the site supervisor, Ontario
Curriculum Objective, etc.
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Learning Experience
What are you planning in
response to your purpose?
- Label your experience (e.g.
Painting with cars).
- What are your 3 objectives
for this experience? (i.e.
What interests are you
extending? What
strengths and
opportunities for growth
are you
enhancing/supporting?)
Describe the experience:
- Who will be involved in the
experience?
- Where will the experience
take place? (e.g. Indoors
Date: February 2, 2017 Age Group: Senior Preschool
Purpose:
The children have been very interested in the block center
recently as they build towers as tall as they are and as wide as
the block center itself. The children also use various tools such
as a hammer, wrench, screw drivers and construction vests to
make the building experience more realistic.
Observation:
Aaron: I am going to make a big tower!
Ben: Can I help you? I have a hammer!
Aaron: What about me, can I help too?
Chloe: Im going to make the roads and you guys have to build
the bridge!
Aaron: Ya! Im going to build over here and you build over
there.
Ben: Im going to use my hammer to fix the bridge!
Learning Experience: Building A City!
Objectives:
1. Children will continue to further their skills in
Engagement from the resource How Does Learning
Happen. The children explore using their natural
curiosity and exuberance and are fully engaged as they
problem solve for their learning and success within the
block center (HDLH, p. 7)
2. Children benefit significantly from having long periods
of time to explore in environments equipped with
interesting, open-ended materials that can be used in
many ways, inviting investigation and complex play
(HDLH, p. 36)
3. Children extend the skill (4.3) Representation as they
exhibit dramatic play with a plot and imaginative
features. Using the blocks, the children express their
 or outdoors? In the
dramatic centre, the
creative table, etc). Materials:
- List the materials and
resources you will use
- Describe the
implementation of the
experience, with a step by
step description
- List and describe 2 teaching
strategies. How will you Implementation:
use them? Why have you
chosen these strategies?
2 Teaching Strategies:
ideas, feelings and experiences with each other and the
educator (ELECT, p. 46).
- Multi-colored blocks
- Various plastic tools
- Construction Vests
- Wooden Blocks
- Animals
- Road Pieces
1. Children were in the block center looking for various
blocks and materials (tools and vests) to use.
2. They began building a simple tower that kept falling as
they built it higher and higher.
3. As I tried to engage with the children, I created a small
bridge as the children watched an observed.
4. I invited the children to come help and expand my
bridge into what they felt could be attached.
5. The children began adding various types of blocks and
roads to my small bridge.
6. The children decided to add a zoo at the end of the road
by creating a square area filled with animals.
7. The children attached roads under the bridges and
towers they made to create a city.
8. The children built until they ran out of blocks.
9. Used the various tools to build, fix and construct
the rest of the city.
1. Challenges: Instead of helping the children build their
own cities, I challenged them to problem solve on their
own as they built tall towers on their own and asked for
assistance from the other children instead of me. This is
important for the children because they need to
understand the concept of cooperation and self-help
skills. It also helps the children take their own initiative
and build according to how they want it.
2. Questions: This is the basic instructional tool an
educator can use with the children. Asking open ended
questions to stimulate conversation with the children
and allow them to reflect on what they are creating is
important for their language and literacy.
- What are you building?
- Why did you make that?
 - What tools are you using?
- Should we build here?

During this experience, the children were their own creators.

They took charge in where certain blocks went and how they
would create the whole scheme altogether. Although I did
instigate the activity, the children ended up creating more than I
thought they would. The children extended their own activity
by adding more buildings, roads, blocks and creating areas I
Reflection: never thought to add. They also worked out certain roles in the
- What went well? Provide activity, some children were in charge of making the roads and
examples for how you others were in charge of making the buildings, etc. When they
know it went well. gave and took on roles, it lessened the conflict between the
- What didnt go well? children because they were able to work independently on their
Provide examples for own stations, whereas if there were opportunities to work
how you know it didnt
together they verbalized what it was they needed to work on.
go well.
- What did you learn? There werent any things that didnt go well throughout the
- What might you do activity because it was open to their construction and
differently next time you imagination to make the activity. There were conflicts in terms
implement this same of overstepping roles and boundaries they created themselves
experience and why? but they were able to problem solve and verbally remind one
- Did you have to make any
another of their roles.
adaptations or
modifications? If so, I learned that children are more than capable of creating their
what were they? own activities to further enhance and extend their learning. I
- What type of experience just started a simple activity and they extended it further than I
might you plan to extend thought they would. Having done so, it has made it easier for
on this one? me in general to create activities because I would just ask them
what they were interested in that day or ask the supervisor what
has been a reoccurring theme to the children for the week since
I am not present throughout the beginning of the week.
If I implement this activity again in the future, I would like to
implement more objects and items. Maybe making it a larger
scale build and having bigger blocks and adding cards and
creating signs so they can create a whole town.
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