What a Great Story Can Do...

This week the children were inspired by some of our favorite storybook characters- Frederick (from the self titled story by Leo Lionni), Rocket (the dog star of Tad Hills' books) and Mabel (our Phonics mascot) to create puppet versions of the characters and stage an impromptu performance.  As much fun was had in the making as was in the performing! This kind of creativity and and team work is what can come out of our afternoon Explore time. It's a super way to end our day.

Continuing with this idea of what the children are doing entirely on their own, these two pals had a super time connecting over mandalas and then extending that to other designs- check it out.

And then there are the parts of our day that are not student directed. Below you can see children engaged in activities designed to practice new skills- the recognition and ordering of teen numbers and the use of popcorn words in a sentence.  A careful look will reveal that the children are practicing the teen numbers through a card flipping game and their popcorn words are labeling the stages in the life cycle of a pumpkin.