Crawling Through

After observing the children crawling over the climbing structure and under the cribs, we decided to follow their interests and created a crawl through/texture box for them to explore and learn.  

Some of the children crawled through the box right away, while others needed to explore the outside of the box before deciding to crawl through it or not.

Ellis was at first reserved about entering the box but after observing it she crawled into it.  While she was in there she played Peek-a-Boo with the turtle hanging from the center with teacher Jessica and would laugh.  Ellis also interacted with the other children and the streamers hanging down.    

Angelica explored the texture in the box and played Peek-a-Boo through the windows.

Serenity observed the box and interacted with the other children while playing with the streamers.

Joshua explored the streamers and the tissue paper at the ends of the crawl box.  He succeeded in ripping a piece of the tissue paper off to explore it closer.    

Transportation

Transportation

During the month of January the preschool students have been looking at different forms of transportation. We have looked at a car engine, helicopters and air planes taking off and the differences between the two, we have set up an air plane and students have role played flight attendent, captain and co-captain and passengers. 

Some of student’s ideas about transportation are:

Silas: “airplanes take us to faraway places”

Lukes: “cars drive on roads”

Emmasofia: “planes take us to Argentina”

Aliya: “you need keys to drive”

Adam: “cars have stirring wheels”

Ava: “cars need gas”

Kosmo: “cars need oil”

Jesus: “around, and around and around” (helicopters)

Bernice “airplanes have two wings”