Sharing Collections at Morning Meeting

Collections Spotlight ​

It has been an exciting week in Rainey Room! Children began exploring clay, beamed beautiful smiles for picture day, and continued sharing their collections at morning meeting. This week, Ford, Ava, Zari, and Seon shared.

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Ford’s Collection of Tickets ​

While sharing his collection of tickets, Ford explained the meaning of each one and was able to tell the children about the special events of his summer. He recognized the print and logos on the tickets and recalled the locations he had visited, demonstrating an understanding that print carries meaning.

Ford held up one of his tickets in our morning meeting circle.
Ford: This one is when we went to Funland!
Then he showed us tickets with Japanese writing on them.
Ford: These are all very special to me and I don’t want anyone to touch them. Cause my daddy give them to me.
Ford shared about some more of his tickets.
Ford: This is the movie theater ticket. It was the dog movie. This one is from the children’s museum. My mom took me.

Ava’s Collection of Rocks and Geodes

Ava carefully brought her collection of rocks and geodes over to the circle and held one up with blue crystals. Her collection inspired a discussion about the physical properties of her various kinds of rocks. The children made observations. 

Ellie: And what about that big rock?
Ava: It’s blue.
Charlton: It’s, no it’s blue like this (pointing to his shirt) because I like blue. This is a kind of white.
Ellie and Zari point at the black and white rock and question in unison: What this rock?
Ava: That one is really white on the bottom and black on top. Hmmm. I have to go get more rocks.
Karen: Where might you find them?
Ava: Tip-toe, tip-toe in a cave. There might be a bear in a cave. ​

Ava: This (geode) is around…it’s made of ice.
Karen: Why do you say it’s made of ice?
Ava: It’s very cold. It would break if you broke it. It’s really special.
Karen: What makes it so special to you?
Ava: This. (She points to the white side of a rock that was half white and half black). The white part makes it special.
Karen: Ava, where did you get the rocks?
Ava: From New York State with dada.

Zari’s Collection of Acorns and Rocks ​

Zari shared her acorns from her collection and noted similarities and differences as she described each one. Her observations of her collection also inspired her friends to ask questions and make hypotheses about the origin of acorns.

​Zari: This one and this one are the same, but they don’t have the same cap. And they actually crack open when the squirrels try to crack open when they go up in the tree. And this one has a cap. And this one has a cap.
Karen: So Zari, is there anything you would like to tell us about your acorns? Anything you want your friends to know before they ask questions?
​Zari picks up one of the rocks: Um, this one is a rock and it has black. And this one is white, but it doesn’t match anything. And then the acorns, I collected these.

Karen: So you collected rocks and acorns?
Zari placed the acorns in a straight line on the tray: The acorns go in a line.
Isabelle: Where did you get it from?
Zari: Um, I got them from the ground. I got them from the ground from the outside. The acorns crash down. From the squirrels.
Ellie: They come from trees! Acorns come from trees!

Seon’s Collection of Leaves

Sean brought an album filled with various kinds of leaves she had collected. Seon compared, contrasted, and classified the different sizes, colors, and shapes of the leaves. She recognized that symbols carry meaning when she saw a Gingko leaf and called it the School Leaf, which happens to be the logo of our school, St. John's. 

​Seon: I collected different types of leaves. Big ones and small ones.
Seon flipped through the different pages of leaves in the album.
Seon: I even collected a flower. I collected them outside with my grandparents. 
She turned the page to a Gingko leaf.
Seon: This is a school leaf.
Whit: That’s the same leaf as the school! 
Karen: What is that leaf called? Look, Ford has one on his (St. John’s) shirt! 
Charlton: It’s a Gecko leaf.
Karen: Yes, that sounds very similar to the name! It’s called a Gingko leaf.

We look forward to learning more about all of the children’s collections in the coming week!

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