Planning Form and Reflection

Planning Form

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Name of Activity

Cereal Scooping

Originating Idea

How to use a measuring cup to serve cereal

Curriculum Area

Nutrition

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Materials

Cheerios or other breakfast cereals, measuring cup 1/4, bowls, and spoons.

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Appropriate Age group

Infants and Toddlers

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Beginning of Activity

Children explore their breakfast cereal and learn to become independent.

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Middle of Activity

Early:

Children explore their cereal by hand. They will be using a pincher grasp to touch, feel, taste, and throw it.

Middle:

Children will explore their cereal pouring by hand-over-hand scooping working on their hand and eye coordination.

Later:

Children will independently scoop their cereal and pour it into their bowls.

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End of Activity

Sing the classroom clean-up song while cleaning up the meal area, putting dirty dishes away, and throwing away unused food.

Follow-up Ideas

Children will work on their counting and hand-eye coordination while stinging Cheerios onto a string.

Assessment

Children will eventually master scooping their own cereal and pouring it into their own bowl without making a mess.

Reflection

This lesson plan is implemented during breakfast and snack time whenever cereal is offered. When children start off in my room this lesson does not go well because they are used to the adults around them doing everything for them and have not been given the choice to attempt to do this independently. It is evident after a few weeks how fast the children can pick up the task and perform it independently and without criticism from adults if they make a mess. My adjustment comes when children have successfully mastered scooping their cereal, they are given the ability to pour their own milk from a mini pitcher of milk into their own cereal bowl.