Happy Monday!
After our morning routines and meeting, we went outside to play on the playground!
The friends are developing relationships with each other and engaging in cooperative play as they run and play on the playground. We are building a classroom community!
Then it was time to explore on the hill!
The friends are exhibiting executive function as they play. An important aspect of executive function is inhibitive control / self regulation. "Inhibitive control is the ability to stop yourself from doing something that you want to do. Learners need inhibitive control to block noises or smells that interfere with attention, and, to put off a reward (like video games) in order to finish a learning task. Inhibitive control is self-control for the mind and is an essential skill for future learning. Children practice inhibitive control in play when they play a role and stick to the confines of the role. For example, the “baby” in a game of house has to find ways to play that do not involve talking or walking." (Marxhausen, 2017)
We look for these things as the friends play to help us understand each individual child.
Want to know more about executive function? Click HERE.
During quiet reading time, we read the sequel to Caps for Sale. We noticed that the characters (the peddler and the monkeys) were the same in both books! As we read with children we are naturally incorporating words that readers use such as character and detail. I encourage you to do the same when you read with your child at home. :)
After some quiet reading, we went to the outdoor classroom.
Some of the friends chose to draw on the whiteboards.
Some of the friends chose to write books! Although many of the friends do not write conventionally at this point, it is important to honor and respect the marks that they are making. As a child "scribbles" on a paper and says "This says I like outside." They are exhibiting an important concept! They are showing that they understand the correlation between written word and spoken print.
Below is a chart from naeyc.org (the National Association for the Education of Young Children) that helps understand the stages of writing in your children.
After lunch we explored small groups outside the classroom.
We then checked on the berries and the thorn bush to see if we noticed any changes.
We took a moment to run too. :)
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