Port Folio Objective 4.1

Objective 4.1

Critiques other plausible perspectives on early literacy & numeracy awareness & immersion.

Ability

Using topics that numeracy and literacy can be seen and incorporated into everyday activities for both adults and children, I would like to create a challenge for children to complete during the school holidays. They will be encouraged to make a list and write down every activity they perform during the day from waking up to brushing their teeth and getting dressed for school. The following is an example of what they might write on the left of the column.

Wake up and get out of bed	Read clock
Walk to bathroom to use toilet	Direction
Flush the toilet	Use the whole or half flush
Wash hands using cold tap	Reading the C or H tap, turn in clockwise or anticlockwise
Walk to kitchen for breakfast	Direction
Butter and vegemite on toast	Estimation, how much to cover the surface area
Cut into baby squares	Fractions
Glass of milk	Volume or liquid in glass
Sit at the table and eat	Talking with mum, read weather
Brush teeth in bathroom
Walk to room to get dressed	Direction
Put my school clothes on	Coordination
Put socks and shoes on	Pairs and L & R
Brush hair
Pack school bag with lunch	Weight of bag
Out the door, lock it	Turn the key direction
Helmet on to ride to school	Order
Climb on bike and pedal	Balance and direction of pedals
Ride to school	Reading road signs
Etc continue for the day

At the beginning of the next day, children are encouraged to sit down with the adults and work through their list labelling which activities include some form of numeracy or literacy. This will help not only children but also adults become aware of just how much learning is involved in day to day routines.

Children will go through their list as I have done on the right of the column and label the learning portions of each specifically distinguishing the literacy and numeracy within each activity. There may be a form of each learning subject in the activities which children can discover and learn.

Labelling the subjects in different colours can help differentiate between the two and know which skills need to be improved upon for each child. Ability levels will differ for each child, but this will provide a good indication of areas to expand on and emphasize around the home.

When the skills are labelled, parents can incorporate each aspect into routine much more frequently, for example asking children to help keep an eye on the time and reading the clock with them, while using television shows as a visual experience. Another idea could be to incorporate drinking a glass of water every hour and learning about time lapse in the day. This exercise is based around the personal observations made by the child, in their daily routine, and then interpretations and analysis are responsible for children being able to extract the learning in each activity.