Documenting a Learning Experience: Frogs and the Pond

Preschool Teacher: What reaches after the tadpole? Children: Miguel Preschool Teacher: So Miguel, get along over here. Miguel has the tadpole with legs. What reaches after the tadpole? Juvenile: Me Preschool Teacher: What do you have Alianis? Juvenile: The froglet. Heather Oski: We started an investigation on frogs. Um, which included a lot of factors, including their habitat. The documentation panel was about our stay to a pond and taking in all the things we'd been discovering and relating it and truly experiencing what the children understood what we were hearing. My objective was to help the children synthesize its own expertise in the classroom during the investigation. Juvenile: Could we take the lid off? Heather Oski: You know what, we could. So you can get a better look what I found with the magnifying glass. Juvenile: Yay! Heather Oski: I started by including paintings of notebooks that we had read and we had a shared writing together about what various kinds of animals live in a pond.

I also added photos of the science core where the latter are relating a lot of their a better understanding of frogs. Juvenile: I see one that has two legs. Heather Oski: The major component of the documentation panel was the children's photos of them actively drawing what the hell is determined where reference has visited the pond, with a description of what the hell proceeds as well as an authentic piece of art that they created. I really liked the photographs that we took because it showed how serious they were about discovering. And how involved they were with police investigations. Juvenile: I caught a dragon pilot. Heather Oski: So did I. Heather Oski: Kinfolks could really understand what we were learning in the classroom and be seen to what extent much "their children" were discovering and ripening.

Copyright 2016 by the Connecticut Office of Early Childhood. This video was developed by the Center for Early Childhood Education at Eastern Connecticut State University. This video may only be used for educational purposes.

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