September 23.2025 I was working on my felt story ” The circle of life” just doing to finish touch up on the characters, when B quietly came out of the nap room. Wondering what i was doing, B walked over and looking at each piece, I started reading the gentle story to help children understand […]
Pedagogical of Threading Beads On this wonderful day I asked C if she likes to bead. With a big smile she said “Yes! I can bead” So, we took out the assorted beads from my basket where we had different sizes, shapes, and colors of beads to thread. C chose a black leather string that […]
B is using his imagination and creativity, by pretending to eat the toy food and then pushing the baby doll in the shopping cart. They’re taking on familiar roles they may see in their everyday environment.
Encouraging pretend play supported their social-emotional development as they explored caregiving behaviours and daily routines, and makes sense of their world through play. This type of dramatic play provides valuable opportunities for children to practice real-life scenarios while developing empathy and independence.
Learning to control their grip and movement. I believe the action with the tiles connecting and separating helps strengthen the muscles in their finger and hands.
Great for writing later on.
Next time I’ll ask E or B “ What happens if you add a tile here?” or “ how could you make this structure taller?” A fantastic way to practice their fine motor skills, creativity, and social interaction for future learning.
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As I observed B building with Lego, he proudly pointed to the pieces he stacked and named the colors one by one. This showed his growing ability to identify and label colors, as well as his confidence in sharing what he knows.
His engagement in the activity also reflected fine motor development as he carefully placed each Lego block on top of the other, creating balance and structure. By naming the colors aloud, he demonstrated both language development and cognitive skills, making connections between objects and their attributes.
This moment highlights how play provides rich opportunities for learning across multiple developmental areas.
B is engaging in imaginative play by using sounds (“choo, choo”) to represent the train. He showed an awareness of others by looking to see if I was watching, demonstrating his desire for social connection and acknowledgment.
His train kept increasing speed and then eventual crash highlighting his curiosity with cause and effect, as well as his ability to control and test the movement of objects through play.
I plan to follow up on this activity
E is engaging in peer interaction, by passing a tile, is a gesture of sharing and invitation to play.The tile itself suggests an opportunity to explore basic concepts of shapes, colors, and spatial awareness, which is crucial at this age for cognitive development.
Holding and manipulating the tile, contributes to the development of fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination. These tiles, are also great for problem-solving skills, by understanding how pieces fit together, and experimenting with design and structure.
To extend E’s learning, we can challenge her to build a tall tower using only the red tiles!” This may encourage E to use her creative problem-solving and thinking about structures. Also I’ll see if there a story on structures building. I know she loves storytelling and songs.
2) Demonstrate skills working with groups of children; maintaining children’s interest, promoting interaction and providing children with a choice about their involvement when appropriate.
3. Demonstrate an ability to to plan, implement, revisit, extend, document and evaluate learning environments that are sensitive to to, developmentally appropriate for young children and reflect current educational planning theory.
4 Demonstrates an ability to effective member of the educator team taking on assigned roles and assigning roles.
5. Demonstrate an ability to accept and act on constructive feedback
6. Demonstrate an ability to engage in on going self-evaluation
7. Engage in ongoing reflection of personal practice and to demonstrate the personal and professional attributes related to conduct and professional communication as guided by the ECEBC Code of Ethics and TRU ECE program.
Returning for my final practicum felt both exciting and meaningful. I couldn’t wait to reconnect with the children and see how much they has grown and changed since i was last with them. Walking back into the daycare reminded me of how far i have come in my own learning journey, and i look forward to building on the relationships and experiences i had already started.
This practicum will give me the chance to strengthen my skills in planning, patience, and creating inclusive, engaging activities. I feel so proud to see the children’s curiosity and joy in learning, and i was reminded why i chose this career. This final experience has confirmed my passion for Early Childhood Education and I look forward to continuing this path with excitement and care.
First day back, we greeted the three children B, C and E as they came in through the door by 9 am they were settle at the table coloring. C loved the color black for butterflies, E observes everyone coloring before marking up their paper with lots of colors. B was watching Rupinder drawing colorful flowers giving it a spring vibe. we cleaned up and had a our morning snack.
“Soon after it was time to go outside.”
They knew what they wanted, they ran to the table waiting to playing and blow lots of bubbles. They were making big, small, one to many, sometimes no bubbles. It was fun seeing them swing their arms, taking big breaths and seeing their reaction when the outcome of their bubbles.
After playing with bubbles they introduce me to their Mama bird that laid eggs in a nest in their play yard. We found out its called a “Flycatcher” bird, they eat flies and this bird was nice to allow us observe her and her babies grow. I was amazed how much the children are surrounded by the circle of life. They had an active bird’s nest- that allows them to look at their observe their growth, and they raise Coho fish from egg to be released during the smolts gathering where everyone is invited to walk among the smolts
It was interesting day with the children we got to know each other, be comfortable and enjoyed our surrounds, chasing bubbles to watching them go over the fence. bird watching from counting 5 eggs in the nest. Wonderful start to practicum!
