All on Their Own

 Many blog posts are devoted to themes we are learning about as a class or specific learning experiences that I have planned. In this post I want to highlight some of the innovative choices and projects that the children come up with all on there own.  This happens mainly at Explore Time, but also at Quiet Time and sometimes when it's least expected!  Being able to learn independently as well as from peers is just as important as learning from a teacher!  These pictures celebrate those efforts.

Sometimes learning from other parts of the day finds it's way into the children's free time. Here you can see a classmate making a drawing of a self regulation activity we did called "Be the Pond". 

In this exercise Jamie from Cosmic Kids Yoga talked us through an analogy for returning to calmness- the idea being that we are the pond and the fish that swim by are fleeting feelings.

Math with coins became art at Explore Time!