NZ Teacher

One of the children talked about the OHP light being hot.  The word HOT was written on a card. He thought the word was NO because that's the word we write the most - for NO breaking. He was soon saying HOT when he looked at the word. He carried the card around with him and propped it up against the magnifying viewer.  A high interest word for a child interested in science and all things hot.

When planting sunflower seeds, one of the children wanted to do it on his own.  He got a white plastic bottle from the recyclables shelf, added some dirt, a couple of sunflower seeds, water and took it outside to put it in the sun.  Such independence. Such initiative.  It was fascinating to see that different children were interested in different aspects of the process.