Choosing How to Display

One of the girls had the "Ants Go Marching" chart in her hand. "Where would you like to put it?" I asked. "Here," she said putting it up on the felt board.

We had to find 2 more of the velcro dots. We chose red (her favorite color). There were only 2 of the velcro dots, so we used a Little Red Hen with velcro on the back to attach the chart to the board.

Later that morning the children were surprised that there were no longer 6 circles on the board, there were 2 more.

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Journals & Writing

We like to write about what interests us. It's the same for children. Journal writing time is an invitation for the children to draw something of interest to them. They tell me something about their pictures and I write it on the page. They see how writing happens by starting with an idea then seeing it get written down.

The Block House

To help keep "THE BLOCK HOUSE" safe we moved the shelf away from the wall to the other side of the carpet providing a new, and safer, space for the house to be built. The letters: THE BLOCK HOUSE were written on A4 paper and attached to the bulletin board. Some of the children were interested in the letters and matching them with the names of the children in the class. The letter "A" had to be added because there are 5 children who begin with the letter A in our classroom this year.

Yarn Trap

The yarn was used to make a trap. It was tied to a picture frame and a basket. Each was positioned on shelves across from one another. The children had to go "under" the trap to get to the carpet for whole class time. There was a lot of sharing of ideas, problem solving, and use of the positional language "over" and "under" and "around".

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