Reflective Analysis of Portfolio Artifact

 

INTASC # 4

 

·  Brief Description of Evidence:

 

Our messy art activity for a day of the dinosaur week was playing in shaving cream with the dinosaurs.  The children played with the shaving cream and then were each given a dinosaur to make footprints. 

 

·  Analysis of What I Learned:

 

Not all of the children were willing to touch the shaving cream, but after modeling, by touching the shaving cream, and moving the dinosaur to make footprints they wanted to play in the shaving cream.

 

·  How This Artifact Demonstrates my Competence on the INTASC Principle:

 

The children were able to be creative with materials combined in a unique way.  The children’s fine motor skills were exercised while playing with the shaving cream.  They spread the cream all of the table and then washed the dinosaurs after making footprints.  I reinforced prior knowledge by explaining that shaving cream used by their dads’ in the bathroom.  The children and I discussed how the shaving cream felt and what it looked like; this required the children to be critical thinkers.

 

 

Shaving Cream Art Plan

 

Date: March 19, 2003

 

Center: CUMNS KIDS

 

Developmental Goals: The children’s physical, cognitive, and social domains will be enhanced during this activity.

 

Foundation(s) Addressed:

2 Enhances creativity by combining materials and textures in a unique way.

2 Learns concepts of directionality, big and small, colors, more or less.

2 Enhances motor developments.

 

Objectives: The children will be able put their hands in the shaving cream and smear it around the table.  The children will be able to describe the texture, color, and how it feels to them.  The children will be able to play with the dinosaurs in the shaving cream and interact with others.

 

Materials: Shaving cream and dinosaurs

 

Motivation: The different centers for the day will be described such as planting flowers in the sand and shifting sand through pots to find dinosaurs, making coffee filter butterflies, potato stamping at the easel, and playing with shaving cream.  The children get a chance to play a game and when that child is done they are able to pick which center they wish to do first.

 

Procedure: One to four children will be able to do a center at a time.  There will be four children doing the shaving cream.  Each child will wash their hands before coming to the shaving cream center.  Each child will be given a pile of shaving cream and told to smear it all over the table to make the table white.  After they have done that then each child will be given a dinosaur to walk in the cream and play with.  Ask the children what how the shaving cream looks and feels like.  Discuss with the children what happens when the dinosaur walks through the shaving cream.  Each child will get a few minutes to make a design in the shaving cream and playing with the dinosaurs.

 

Closure: After each child is finished either by being asked and agreeing or deciding on their own, they will take off their smocks and wash their hands.  They will then get to decide what center they want to go to next.