Early Childhood Standards of Quality for ... - State of Michigan

ELE: Creative DevelopmentQuestions for Reflection1. To what extent does the staff plan indoor and outdoor activities involvingbalancing, running, jumping and other vigorous movements, to increasechildren’s understanding of movement?2. How are children helped to develop skills needed to perform movements;e.g., the teacher repeats a movement slowly for a child who asks, “Howdid you do that?”3. How do adults balance both child and adult led movement activities?4. How do adults use movement experiences to prompt vocabulary,language, and conceptual development?5. How are movement activities adapted to assure the participation ofchildren with physical disabilities?4. Early Learning Expectation: Children show how they feel, whatthey think, and what they are learning through dramatic play.[HSCOF-CD 5.4.1, 5.4.2]Children typically:1. Grow in the ability to pretend and to use objects as symbols for otherthings.2. Use dramatic play to represent concepts, understand adult roles,characters, and feelings.3. Begin to understand components of dramatic play; e.g., body, voice.4. Contribute ideas and offer suggestions to build the dramatic play theme.5. Begin to differentiate between fantasy and reality.Examples of Experiences and Strategies• Children have the opportunity to role play and/or pantomime charactersfrom familiar and culturally relevant songs, stories and nursery rhymes(e.g., Three Bears, The Three Little Pigs, Humpty Dumpty) in person andthrough puppet shows.• The environment is organized to offer situations where children can roleplay familiar roles or situations; e.g., home living, grocery stores, fast foodrestaurants.• Children have opportunities to initiate role play during a large portion oftheir day.• Children have opportunities to create various forms of props for theirdramatic play; e.g., making hats out of paper, fabric material, boxes;painting large appliance cartons to create houses, vehicles; creatinggroup-constructed murals (paint on large wallpaper) for use as backdrops;creating simple puppets.Early Childhood Standards of Quality for Prekindergarten 91