Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Reminder that tonight is Family Night at the Museum Center from 5:30-8. You should have received a bright orange flyer with information. Basically, it is free admission to the Children's Museum and Museum of Natural History and Science. Parking is also free. The program we received this through is called ECSITE and our student teacher, Brooke is part of the program through NKU. I will be there tonight with my boys and I hope to see you.

Here are a few photos from the field trip with the Tuesday/Thursday class.  Honestly, from the bus ride to lunch and everything in between it couldn't have been a better field trip.  The Children's Museum has a little bit of everything to meet the needs of the early childhood student.  3-5 year old children learn through play and the play atmosphere at the museum is so well thought out and conducive to learning.  I am confident that every student  left the field trip with more knowledge and much more experience to add to his or her repertoire.  Thank you again to Ms. Brooke and the grant through NKU for providing this field trip to us free of charge.  The students are already asking when they can go back.  I'm sure the Wed/Friday class will have just as wonderful of an experience.  Parents who sent me photos I'm still trying to convert them to get them on the blog but they will come soon.  Thank you. 
 































During our market theme several students began pretending to work on our classroom.  Our sink in our dramatic play center needed a new pipe so a few students became plumbers.  Our table was broken and needed a new leg so another group of student decided to be "fixer men" and fix it.  Before I knew it the students had started a construction theme without any prompting from the teachers.  Due to the student interest we decided to implement a construction theme in our class.  All of the students are invested in the learning and it couldn't be better.  We call this type of planning student lead.  It's my favorite because when I lesson plan based on student learning and make sure we hit the standards in all the learning centers based on their interests even more learning takes place.  Here are just a few photos from our student lead construction theme.  We have a pendulum serving as a wrecking ball in our science center, tools and wood in our dramatic play, a variety of new blocks in the block center,  and we've kept a kitchen in our other dramatic play center but added a few baby dolls.