"Wow, look at how this book begins. Where do you think this is?" The first pages showed darkened trees, and the children responded with "The trees! The forest."
The children were asked, "Would you be afraid to go in there?" "Nah...we camp in the forest." "Yah, I camp in my trailer in the forest." "Well...did you know sometimes people who don't have homes live in there." Were a few of the answers.
With a teddy on their laps, the children enjoyed a story about a boy who finds a gigantic teddy while looking in the forest for his lost teddy. The boy is startled by a gigantic sobbing bear also searching for his lost teddy. At this point in the story someone responded matter-of-factly, "This is NOT TRUE! Real, wild bears don't have teddies and don't sleep in beds!" Bravo with the critical thinking skill!
Thank you, Dr. Fern Snart (Previous Dean of Education) and Marilyn Armstrong (GRIT) for being our guest readers for September. We are wishing to share our awesome Child Study Centre Junior Kindergarten families and program with more people involved in the Department of Education, thus, we will have guest readers each month. It is engaging and enjoyable for all of us!
The next day the children reflected on how they would feel if they lost their teddy: happy, sad or confused. The dialogue described how the children voted.
Happy - I know I will find my teddy soon.
Sad - I lost my teddy and now I feel sad!
Confused - Where did I put teddy? Is it hiding? Did it go on a holiday?
Their responses were graphed using their photos and displayed using emotion stamps on our "What About You?" bulletin.
The children were asked, "Would you be afraid to go in there?" "Nah...we camp in the forest." "Yah, I camp in my trailer in the forest." "Well...did you know sometimes people who don't have homes live in there." Were a few of the answers.
With a teddy on their laps, the children enjoyed a story about a boy who finds a gigantic teddy while looking in the forest for his lost teddy. The boy is startled by a gigantic sobbing bear also searching for his lost teddy. At this point in the story someone responded matter-of-factly, "This is NOT TRUE! Real, wild bears don't have teddies and don't sleep in beds!" Bravo with the critical thinking skill!
Thank you, Dr. Fern Snart (Previous Dean of Education) and Marilyn Armstrong (GRIT) for being our guest readers for September. We are wishing to share our awesome Child Study Centre Junior Kindergarten families and program with more people involved in the Department of Education, thus, we will have guest readers each month. It is engaging and enjoyable for all of us!
The next day the children reflected on how they would feel if they lost their teddy: happy, sad or confused. The dialogue described how the children voted.
Happy - I know I will find my teddy soon.
Sad - I lost my teddy and now I feel sad!
Confused - Where did I put teddy? Is it hiding? Did it go on a holiday?
Their responses were graphed using their photos and displayed using emotion stamps on our "What About You?" bulletin.