Our final step to the investigation was in effort to give the children an opportunity to make the connection of how trees, plants, flowers are able to stay alive by being connected to their roots. The children get up close and personal with trees and plants. They are encouraged to feel the leaves, pine needles,…
Comments from the children’s.. “They changed color and are pointy. When I touch them they fall off the branch.” “That’s because they have been in the sun too long. They need water.” “Some are still green because they are in the shade. These ones are still alive, the orange ones are dead.” “Let’s give them…
The children make wind paddles to create wind in the classroom, we discuss how we can control the speed of wind by how fast we move the paddle. The children then discover on their own how wind can be done through blowing air out from their mouth. The educators ask the children for their…
The children go back outside to visit the tree after talking with Allan. They take a closer look at the specifics given to determine how the tree collapsed. Lia W walks with a group of her peers pointing to the area where it broke, “Look at where it bend. It use to be up there,…
The children begin to question how the tree in our yard fell down. They narrowed it down to three possibilities, an animal chomped it down, the strong wind or a thunder and lightning storm. We brought in an expert who helped them to understand which one of their guesses were right, concluding it was in…
When the children arrived at school they each walked right past the very large, very long object laying on our lawn. This object is new to the area, yesterday the children were running on grass there and today there was an obstruction. It is still quite chilly outside. Perhaps they are focused on getting inside…
