EDN 383 Integrated Weekly Plan Huntley - Huntley 1...

Huntley 1
Catherine Huntley
Karen LaRue
EDN 383
5 December 2012
Integrated Weekly Plan
The weekly plan I chose to implement is modeled after the kindergarten class I visit every
Wednesday morning. There are twenty-two children, ages five and six in the classroom. Their
ability levels vary greatly, about seven of the children are ready to begin reading at a first grade
level as well as work on first grade sight words, while there are about four children still
struggling to grasp the English language. On a normal day, the main teacher and the assistant are
both present in the classroom. There is a very warm and encouraging feel to the classroom; the
children’s ideas are welcomed and encouraged. The classroom is filled with tons of age
appropriate material for the children and the ideas that their teacher comes up with are still fun
and fresh, even though she has been teaching long enough to retire soon.

Huntley 2
Integrated Weekly Plan
The weekly plan I chose to implement is modeled after the kindergarten class I visit every
Wednesday morning. There are twenty-two children, ages five and six in the classroom. Their
ability levels vary greatly, about seven of the children are ready to begin reading at a first grade
level as well as work on first grade sight words, while there are about four children still
struggling to grasp the English language. On a normal day, the main teacher and the assistant are
both present in the classroom. There is a very warm and encouraging feel to the classroom; the
children’s ideas are welcomed and encouraged.
I chose a farm theme for my weekly plan for a few reasons, the first being that the
children were going on a field trip to a farm right after Thanksgiving break. My other reason for
choosing a farm theme is because I realized that there are not many farms in Wilmington, which
leads me to believe that the children might not know as much as you would think about farms
and farm animals. This also seemed like a fun theme to implement in a classroom based on the
amount of ideas I was able to come up with.
The activity “Will this Dissolve?” came about when one of the sugar cubes fell into our
water table trough and the students noticed that the cube began to grow smaller and eventually
disappeared. They were so fascinated by this I knew I had to do an actual activity with them
about what objects will and will not dissolve. I included a leaf, a piece of hay, feed, a sugar cube,
salt, and pepper. I wanted to pick objects the children could find on a farm and I added pepper
because I thought the children would be fascinated by how strange pepper acts in water. Once the
children have completed the activity and have an idea of what might dissolve and what might
not, they will be asked to find two objects that dissolve and two that do not. We will have a day
where we experiment, as a class, with the objects each student brought in.