Colorful Times for our Budding Scientists!

Thanks, Karen, for the great idea for creating a COLOR CATERPILLAR. This was a HIT for our young explorers. While the colors captivated their attention, the mixing invited curiosity. Questioning, Predicting, and Drawing Conclusions created that scientific inquiry we value so much!

 

The Color Caterpillar sticks around to continue to invite exploration and color mixing understandings. 





 The Walls come alive with a color explosion! Look at all we did to explore and learn about color though science, play, literacy, math, and art?






Flowers of all kinds adorn the rooms! Look at the carnations and coffee filter flowers. 

 



Angie Prather's idea of honoring students with letter seats for the week is taking the preschool by storm and resulting in ALPHABETIC KNOWLEDGE!

Oh, the joys of effective PLC work!

Measurement and Growing Animals! What more can a little scientist ask for? Check out this "growing" lizard- getting bigger by the day. It's so much fun to intentionally move toward the transfer: gather, analyze, and use evidence from tools, interactions as an opportunity to learn and communicate!

Math + Science + Oral Language

Patterns= Math learning

What math & literacy lessons can result from this simple graphic?

 

 

 

Great Happenings at the OCP

If you are hoping to peek inside of other classrooms and get the feel for what others are doing to spark creativity and learning through play, check out these photos.

 Play Plans combine thinking, creativity, writing, and PLAY!
Are you kids ready to begin these valuable learning tools? YES!

Some teachers have used them as true Play Plans, while others have had kids reflect on their favorite "learning through play" time of the day.

Either way you are harnessing thinking, creativity, and literacy skills.  

Turn you head and you will see this little one reading to her bear. What a delightful experience. Looking at pictures of kids from all over the world, she tells be bunny quite a tale. (Haha, get it, tale, tail??!)

All aboard!!! This simple box transformed into the famous Mayflower as students took ownership. They created the mast, wrote the name of the boat, and invented all the play that came with it! Social studies, social play, literacy, and science all in one!

 

Another moment of self-selected play in action. These little guys are drawn to the literacy center where they extend stories they have heard in read aloud. They often add pages, or create new stories to share with the class in this room.