Thursday

Sharing Our Space and Working Together  

We're working together.  ...Because we need to share this building together." -Henri

We finished up our school day with the objective of building, all together, in our construction space.

The children were in motion with each of them participating in their own way!

The progression of the building continued while materials were confidently removed from the shelves. Eventually, many materials were seen on the floor. This provided an opportunity to consider the intentional use of materials and sharing of our space as we work. If the materials are all over the floor, then the floor is not as open to comfortably, carefully, and effectively move around the space.  So we paused and set the intention to make a choice to pick up materials on the floor and either connect them to our building or to put back onto our shelves. 

Our Third Teacher the Environment 

Our classroom continues to come alive with our symbols and pictures!

Symbols are selected! The children's symbol stamps have been placed in the drawers of our symbol box (above). The symbols have also been added to the birthday calendar and next to each child's cubby photo (below). This will continue to support the children to identify each other and what belongs to them. 

​"That's my name!"
​- Adaline & Gracie

​Adaline and Gracie notice their photos hanging on the portfolio drawers. Drawn to their own image, each of them was seen pointing at their photo and heard saying, "That's my name." ​

Familiarizing Ourselves with Days, Schedules, and Plans

Marking the days and keeping track of passing time with our classroom calendar.

Our written projections, actual calendar,  and work-in-progress visual projections for the children to read and comprehend.

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Our home-to-school sign in or board  for the children. We will be introducing this tomorrow during our morning meeting and again on Monday, for full swing beginning on Tuesday.  

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