Breaking down the physical health and development area, Landis is on track for her growth motor development, her visual motor development, and her fine motor development.
Breaking down the language development area, Landis can identify body parts (feet, tongue, ears, head, legs, and arms), and her verbal fluency is 100% for her age. Landis had difficulty with expressive picture identification and the use of objects.
I ran an additional test on Landis by administering the Inventory of Early Development II: Standardized Language Development: …show more content…
Critique of It’s Time to Cook: This activity pretty much sums up how I would have a dramatic play kitchen. I would have it so that the children could write out their own shopping list and create their own recipes and name the recipe themselves. Pass Around the Microphone (Brigance, 299)
Materials: Aluminum foil and cardboard toilet roll.
Group size: Small group or class.
Preparation: Cover an empty toilet roll with foil. Ball up another piece and tape in the top of the roll to make a pretend microphone.
Procedure: To encourage children to learn to wait their turn, do the following:
- Invite children to sit in a circle.
- Pass the microphone around the circle and ask children to tell what they will do during circle time.
- Encourage children who are waiting their turn to look at the speaker and be good listeners.
Critique of Pass Around the Microphone: To help Landis with her development, I would let her speak about what she done over the weekend, how she woke up for school that morning, her favorite breakfast, or whatever interests her. By limiting the children to certain topics to speak about they would be as open to answer. The idea of the students speaking about what they will do in circle time is a good idea for reinforcing rules, but the answers can be very generic and the children won’t be able to express