Did you expect to see pictures of blocks or building toys here? Nope. Today we are talking about building on activities that we originally laid out. As you all know, we at BCCNS use emergent curriculum to programme plan for our class. Instead of planning themes, we "build" on activities in which we have previously observed the children engaging.
Last week we had the gak in trays along with the little insects, amphibians and snakes. We noticed the children taking it out and playing with it directly on the table. Next step? We took away the trays and watched them explore the dynamics of this cool material. Did you ever think that we'd be talking fluid dynamics in preschool? The best part is, the children discovered that the animals (and hands) make really cool tracks in the gak and loved moving them through it. And they discovered this all on their own.
Here's another example. Here we put out tubes, chairs and cars, fully expecting the children to use the chairs as an inclined plane to zoom the cars down the tubes. but look what happened. One of the kids discovered the physics of the fulcrum and suddenly we had seesaws in the class.
Miss Heidi, Miss Karen and Miss Kate
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