Welcome back to school! We had a great day today with Muffins with Mom and chapel with the whole school!
Check out what we did today!
Leah brought another spider from her house! (Thank you Leah!) We discussed if we should build it another habitat or share the habitat with our spider. We decided to share with our spider. Allowing the children to have a choice in the classroom helps them learn decision making skills!
We were careful not to let either spider out!
The children enjoyed watching the spiders crawl in the habitat we created for them. We saw one spider look like it was flying! I asked the children how the spider was floating like that. They responded:
"It's the string! We can't see it but it's there!"
"He's making a web with his string!"
I asked the children where the string came from. They replied:
"It looks like it comes from his behind!"
"I think it comes from his tummy."
The children are learning more about the world around them! They are also exchanging scientific ideas with each other. Allowing the children to take such an active role in their learning and encouraging the children to be inquisitive will help create life long learners!
We worked together in the pumpkin patch. We continue to practice positive social interactions with one another as we share, take turns, and use our words to resolve conflicts in a kind way!
Some children finished telling me a story about a time they saw a spider. This engages the children's prior knowledge of the subject, and therefore lays the foundation for further learning.
Our friends exercised their fine motor skills and creative thinking skills as they worked with the legos!
Bella worked hard refining her spatial relationship skills and problem solving skills as she completed various puzzles.
We investigated plastic spiders to talk about the different parts of the spider's body. We enjoyed comparing the plastic spiders to the pictures of spiders that we have! As the children compare, they are not only thinking scientifically, but they are also refining their visual discrimination skills and learning more about the world around them.
Brian wondered if spiders would eat pumpkins.
I asked him if the spiders on the table would eat the pumpkins. He replied,
"No...those spiders aren't real, but maybe the spiders in the cage would eat a pumpkin."
"A pumpkin like the one on the table?" I asked him.
"No...like a Halloween pumpkin. Maybe they would eat that."
I told him that we could try and see!
Child initiated learning, such as the example above, is one way for children to become personally invested in learning. Allowing the children to test their thoughts and theories also teaches children how to find an answer to their own questions. Furthermore, it shows children that learning is fun!
Some of the children chose to practice their fine motor skills as they drew in their journals and wrote lists for the pumpkin patch center.
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