Today our class investigated some natural structures: hills!
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The above are some photos of the children enjoying the hills. Here are some of the things the children did:
- ran
- rolled
- tossed seed pods
- slid
- sat and watched
Last week our study of hills began. Here was the first post about hills:
http://wordpress.miracosta.edu/laurap/2013/09/09/todays-highlights-a-hill-study/
To address some of our questions about the children’s experiences of hills, the following can be noted about our day today:
- The “clock tower” hill still won in the votes, but it only won by one vote.
- The children did not provide as many reasons for why they liked hill one or hill two.
- Some of these differences could be due to the children who attend on Tuesday versus Monday.
- The children today more actively explored both hills from the get-go. There was no warming-up period. The last visit to the hills we had, we noticed that the children seemed to explore the second hill more, perhaps because we went there second.
The hill studies have evolved to a study of “Structures” and we now have a project about structures underway in the classroom. We recently put a board up near the sign-in book where families can share their observations of children and their explorations of structures (or read what teachers and other family members have been writing down).
Yesterday we captured even more photos of the children using some new construction materials outdoors – marble mazes and crates!
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GARDENING
However, it’s not all about structures: We also did some gardening!
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