Stevie,+Abigail+and+Tiffany

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SERVICE LEARNING PROJECT ! We chose Maidee Smith Daycare to conduct our project. We went to Maidee Smith on November 7th to have a Fall Festival. Fall Festival Lesson Plan for Maidee Smith Memorial Day Care Center Ages: 18 months to 4 years This program aims to: establish and maintain positive, collaborative relationships with families; to respect parents’ choices and goals for children and communicate effectively with parents about curriculum and children’s progress; involve families in assessing and planning for individual children, including children with disabilities, developmental delays, or special abilities; support parents in making decisions related to their child’s development and parenting; demonstrate sensitivity to differences in family structures and social and cultural backgrounds; apply family systems theory, knowledge of the dynamics, roles, and relationships within families and communities; link families with a range of family oriented services based on identified resources, priorities, and concerns; and communicate effectively with other professionals concerned with children and with agencies in the larger community to support children’s development, learning and well being. We would like to plan an educational Fall Festival to encourage the parents of students at the Maidee Smith Memorial Day Care Center to come and directly interact with the staff and their children. We believe this interaction will encourage parents to build relations with the school, communicate the developmental needs of their child and foster an attitude of activism in their child’s academic career. We will achieve these goals by creating a fun, educational environment for the families to be in. We plan to have stations set up around the premises that allow students and their parents to work on specific skill sets, such as problem solving, memorization, sensory development and motor development. Games:
 * The Color Game**—students must sort a variety of multicolored items into separate color bins (ex: red toy fire truck goes in the red bin, green apple goes in the green bin). //teaches colors//
 * The Shape Game**—students must place shapes (cut out of paper) on corresponding space on a board; shapes will be attached with Velcro. //teaches shapes//
 * The Dice Game**—students are given a card with multiple pictures on it (a tree, a bird, a cat, a house and a car) and a dice with the same pictures, students must roll the dice and circle the corresponding picture on their card after identifying the object. The first student with all 5 objects circled wins. //teaches object identification//
 * Make A Face Pumpkin Game**—students can create a face on a largepumpkin board by naming a placing different features on it (eyes, ears, mouth, nose, eyebrow, eyelash, teeth, etc.). //teaches body part identification//
 * The Fishing Game**- Students get to go fishing in the ocean, once they catch a fish they must identify the color. //teaches colors//
 * The Leaf Game**- Students must catch and identify the color leaves as they “fall” from a “tree” (a teacher stands behind a tree cut out and drops colored paper leaves down in infront of the board//). teaches color and motor skills.// //We also sent home coloring pages and activity pages that parents could work together with their children to complete. These pages were simple to complete, but involved parent support is necessary. We hope these pages would increase parent- child interaction.//