Independent Component 1

• Literal
(a) "I, Elizabeth Plascencia, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work."

(b) What helped me complete my independent component was of course my mentor, Mrs. Martha, the kids at the daycare (simply their cooperation) and the daycare teachers at Montessori Academy of West Covina.

(c) refer to senior project hours link

(d) What I have done for my Independent Component 1 is observe and interact with the children on what ways they learn best. There are four different ways of learning; visual, auditory, reading/writing, and kinesthetic. What mostly applied to the kids under the age of five were visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learning. By following the routine at the daycare with their lesson plan and some ideas that I had for input, such as working on puzzle pieces with different objects on it, I had gathered enough information based on observing the kids on which ways they learned best. 

• Interpretive
In the collage below you can see several pictures of the kids doing different activities. For safety reason I will not disclose any of the kids names nor have I tried to get any facial shots of their identities. With the activities that they have around them they learn through visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learning. They are very hands-on learning children. The two pictures in the center are the crafts that they have made themselves. They learn new things such as their colors and different words. Also, when they play with different objects such as toy house-hold supplies, they learn what those supplies are called and how to properly use them. It's activities such as these that may seem so simple but are imperative for their education and development at such a young age.

• Applied

What I did for my independent component helped me understand the foundation of my topic just by being around the kids. The daycare has a routine and lesson plans for the kids everyday, so being able to observe the different types of learning the kids go through helps me understand how they learn best. Making an observation like this and also interacting with the kids doesn't just take a days work. It takes several days and several hours, which is why I saw it best fit for my independent component one. Just how my mentor once told me, every kid has their own personality and their own flaws. You'll see something different in them everyday. Hardly anything at the daycare will seem repeated because as a caretaker there will always be something different to handle everyday. Now how it applies to my independent component; kids learn new words best when people say it to them repeatedly. And it's a big plus when you show them what the object of the word is. For example, if you are teaching them the word caterpillar you should also show them what it looks like. That way whenever they look at a caterpillar they'll know what it is and vice versa. This is an example visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learning. 

This is an example of one weeks lesson plan