Games & Choices
Light Play
This week’s challenge for Games & Choices time: It’s Light Play! This type of play helps develop the following skills: Story telling (Creative Thinking Skills) Properties of light (Science) Engineering (ADST) Problem Solving (Critical Thinking Skills) Options: Try out some toys to make shadows, use different fabrics, straws, cups or other materials. It’s also a … Continue reading
Challenge Of The Week
I hope you had fun with the Mystery Box Challenge last week. I’m sure you thought of some creative clues for your family to guess your mystery box item. This week I have something new for you… This new challenge will also require your creative and critical thinking skills–but in a different way. Have you … Continue reading
Inspiration
Hello Everyone! I’m blown away each day as I receive emails with images of your work! Thank you! ❤ You are working so hard to continue your learning, and I am inspired by you and your parents. I’m excited to see you taking up the challenge of this new learning–and taking chances to try new … Continue reading
We Love Games & Choices!
Each day we devote a chunk of time to “games & choices”. We start with a sharing circle, where a few students take turns sharing their plans for the upcoming session. This is an excellent way to develop our ability to tell a story. Some things we might include: Where am I working today? Who am I working with? … Continue reading
Invitations to Play…
What are Invitations to Play? This term is used a lot by Early Childhood Educators and is deeply rooted in the Reggio philosophy of allowing children to direct their own play by offering open-ended, meaningful resources to explore. It simply describes a little set up of play materials for your child to come and discover and … Continue reading
Games & Choices
A large part of each day is devoted to free choice activities also known as “Games & Choices”. Of course, this is the favourite time of day for a lot of students. Each student chooses a project to work on each day, sometimes with a friend, sometimes with a group and sometimes alone. Some … Continue reading
Games & Choices
Oral Language development is an important part of early literacy fluency. There are many ways that we develop our skills in this area. In Division 9, a significant part of our Games & Choices time is our sharing circle–which is entirely oral language driven. We have two sharing circles each day. In our first circle (prior to … Continue reading