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.