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This is the book the teachers have chose for the week. The children are loving it. It has different vehicles (transportation) which has been an ongoing favourite. It also has an ice cream truck which has led to an ice cream parlour being set up in the pretend play area inside and in our outdoor area as well.

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I have also observed more of the children using the clipboards that we have brought into the classroom .

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Ghalya bought me some ice cream at the ice cream parlor. She told me to brush my teeth after I was finished. When I asked why she said my teeth would hurt.
Ghalya also initiated using money to pay for the ice cream in the pretend play area.

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Children making great use of the clipboards. Attempting to draw pictures and write words of things they see in the classroom.

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Olivia drew her ice cream and cut it out.
"I make blueberries and this is chocolate and this is strawberry. I going to stick it in the ice cream van." Olivia

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Moza chose to add some plastic fruit to her beach snack.

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The children chose to use clay and playdough to make healthy snacks "to take to the beach." They really enjoyed learning how to manipulate the clay, commenting on how it was harder than playdough.
Some made fruits, vegetables and sandwiches. Others made ice cream and cookies, which brought on discussions about what was healthy and not.

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Hamad created ice out of paper and tissue paper.

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I asked these boys to create a picture of their favourite things from the past weeks. I will add their pictures to our displays for them to see and reflect on.

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Short week for us. (half term) Had class and individual photos, overall just a busy crazy week.

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Lion was very concentrated on his picture and did not want to be disturbed.

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" Rain is coming down and a car is driving."
"This is a police car."
" I am making so many rockets."-Hamza

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"I'm doing a car, my daddy inside the car."-Aly

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The children took advantage of the different materials around them to express their thinking.

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Like the idea of setting up objects related to books with the magnifiers and See, think, Wonder sheets

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Can you make a boat that floats out of recyclable materials?
What else would/could you make a boat out of?

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-write letters or words on the chalk stripes or write words with chalk and trace over them with water

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Introduce clay, compare it's texture to other things such as playdough. Possibility of using the clay to create a form of visible thinking.

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Possibility of using more of our recycling materials to create some form of visible thinking.

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Day 10 observations/Thursday 27th October

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Day 10 observations/Thursday 27th October

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A few children helped to make a control panel for a rocket. We asked them what they thought the control panel would need. They came up with great ideas: steering wheel, clock, "Start",  "Stop" and "Fire" button; one of the children wanted to add a window so that we could see the stars and the moon.

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We just got two computers in the classroom. The children have been attempting to complete simple programs and learning to use the mouse. The teacher has  been getting them using the Ipads more; making videos of each other retelling the story "How to Catch a Star".

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Show-and-tell

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M-"How do you look?"
R-"In the holes"
M-"That's for your hands"
M-"It sounds like girls shoes" (hitting rocks together)

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Discussing weight and size.

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"It's going to the moon"

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Initiate conversations and attend to what others say.
Play co-operatively, resolve conflicts and find compromise.

Build confidence to speak to others about interests and opinions.

Aware of the boundaries set, and of behavioural expectations in the setting.

Begin to be able to negotiate and solve problems.

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Exploring rocks: size, weight, texture, color

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How did you catch that star?
"It fall down."

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Tell me about your picture.
"The boy looking at stars in window."

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How did you catch your star?
"Up the boxes"

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Where are you going?
"I'm driving to the airport to go to the moon."

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"I walk on the moon"-Yee Hao

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Story-"How to Catch a Star"
Explore rocks/Discovery box-Moon rocks? Paint and add sparkles for meteors, usedifferent size and shaped rock, paint, brushes, sparkles, box, gloves

Outside area-Big boxes, wooden steering wheels, stars

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2nd week of observations/ideas and more (course week 4/ideas and documentation)

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2nd week of observations/ideas and more (course week 4/ideas and documentation)

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We began last week with transportation, which has transformed into more of a space and rocket ship project.  With the pictures and quotes I add this week I hope to transform them into a power point slide or a wall gallery for the children.

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1st week of observations (course week 3/playful provocations)

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1st week of observations (course week 3/playful provocations)

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Looking closely at similarities, differences, patterns & change.

Children know about similarities & differences in relation to places, objects, materials & living things.

They talk about the features of their own immediate environment & how environments might vary from one another.
They make observations explain why some things occur, & talk about changes.

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Day 5 observations/Thursday 20th, October

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Day 5 observations/Thursday 20th, October

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Four children sat around me while I was laminating so I took the time to ask them some questions about what they enjoyed this week. One boy said "rockets", I asked who he would take and how he would make it. He named his friends and told me how he would use"big boxes" to make his rocket. Even though he was the one doing the most talking they were all excited about it.
Many of the children kept asking about their bottle rockets as they had not all finished. They spent a part of the afternoon finishing them, the teacher hung them up. (They have kept admiring them through the following week)

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Day 4 observations/Wednesday 19th, October

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Day 4 observations/Wednesday 19th, October

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(overall a busy day and not much attention put towards taking notes.)

At the end of the day children made rockets out of plastic bottles and other recycled materials they had brought. I asked a couple children about their rocket;one child told me "it's an airplane", another child told me hers was a "princess rocket". They're was lots of problem solving going on trying to figure out how to connect materials together.

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We began our day outside. I brought out a large roll of paper, paints, assorted brushes, sparkles, tape, scissors. The children were interested and wanted to know what we were going to do. We told them that they could decide. As they helped me tape a large strip of paper to the wall, one child suggested doing a space painting and the others followed along. One girl created a moon with craters and then she said " I want to stick stars". I was lucky to have a roll of silver adhesive paper. I got it and a couple extra pair of scissors and they went to work on making stars. Others painted blue or black and some painted yellow stars, some were excited about the sparkles and thought they could be stars as well.

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Today there were a few key children observed for the first time doing mark making independently and showing excitement about their writing.
Many children continued to take advantage of the recyclable materials.
We had also supplied our outdoor area with boxes that the children used as individual rockets. (Plan to bring out a roll of paper to tape to the wall tomorrow as well as paint and different mark making tools.)
We introduced our midnight playdough. (I did not observe much of this as we had it set up in the other classroom. However, peaking into the class lots of children were showing interest in it.)

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Show and tell of the children's favourite form of transportation (they brought their own toy or picture).
As  they were quite interested in this subject there was lots of discussions happening. Most of the children brought planes. The teacher compared and counted how many children had of each. The children talked about their toy or picture and they turned the conversation on to safety and wearing seat belts.
Later in the day we had a story "Whatever Next", about a bear that goes to space in a rocket that he made. Many children showed interest and enjoyed this story and the provisions that went along with it; Moon Sand, space boots (rubber boots), strainer, boxes. The moon sand brought on great conversation between the children: "it's squishy", "like a dog", "you mean soft", "I can make a ball", " It sticks".
The children brought recyclable materials in the morning and some wanted to create a garage to fix cars and planes. We observed some great pretend play that continued independently throughout the day using both recyclable materials and other. Some were interested in space from the story and wanted to paint nighttime pictures with stars. They suggested using yellow, blue and black.

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Show and tell of items brought from home to show their favourite type of transport (photos, pictures, models, books, toys, etc)

Children to help create the role play area.

Building and creating out of recycling materials

Paint a space picture and stick on Baby Bear in his rocket.  Paint and count stars.  Write corresponding numeral and add to picture

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Children will learn through the use of computers, Ipads and interactive white board;

That information can be retrieved from computers.

Select and use technology for particular purposes.

Completes a simple program on a computer.

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Why do you like "cars, planes etc..."?
Where would you like to go?
With whom?
How do people travel to the moon?
What do you think the moon looks like?
How will you get there?
How could we build a car (or other)?
What will we need?
How does it feel? (sensory-moon sand, sand)
What is similar/different? (cars, trucks, rocks, sand  and moon sand etc.)

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Recognise some numerals.
Count objects to 10 and beyond. (Rocks, stars, cars etc.)
Count up and down 1-10, 10-1 (Rocket launch)
Count actions or objects which cannot be moved or irregular arrangement of up to ten objects.
Use language "fewer"and "more"

Beginning to use mathematical names for 3D shapes and flat 2D shapes.
Selects a particular named shape and use common shapes to build models.
Can describe their relative position such as "behind" or "next to".
Order items by length or height.
Order two items by weight.

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Construction with recyclable materials-Resources: Children to bring recycled materials from home, paint, glue, tape, sparkles, big boxes etc.
Sensory-Sand and Moon Sand -flour and baby oil, some glitter and paint for grey moon colour
Playdough
Midnight playdough with black and silver glitter
Open-ended mark making ideas to put out for the children.- rolls of paper to use on the floor, or walls (outdoor area)paint, paint brushes, A4 and A3 paper, chalk, sparkles, other mark making tools
Shaving foam tray(s), assorted utensils (ex:brushes)
Story-"Whatever next", provisions to go along with the story

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Children will have opportunities for;

Beginning to read words and simple sentences.

Uses vocabulary and forms of speech that are increasingly influenced by their experiences of books.

Enjoying an increasing range of books - fiction and non-fiction books about transportation and space.

Beginning to understand that information can be retrieved from books and computers.

Giving meaning to marks they make as they draw, write and paint.

Using some clearly identifiable letters to communicate meaning.

Writing own name and other things such as words (for labels) or simple sentence about a story using developing phonic knowledge.

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Jumping off an object and landing appropriately.
Negotiating space.
Travel with confidence and skill around, under, over and through equipment.

Showing a preference for and developing their fine motor skills using a dominant hand.

Handle mark making tools, objects and malleable materials safely and with increasing control.

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To maintain attention and sit quietly during appropriate activity.
Listening in a range of situations and responding to ideas expressed by others.

Show understanding by, responding to instructions, following a story without props.

Use language to imagine and recreate roles and experiences in play situations.
Link statements and stick to main theme or intention.

Using talk to organise, sequence and clarify thinking, ideas, feelings and events

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What is your favourite mode of transportation?
Has anyone has been on a plane ... a train ... a horse ... etc?
How do you get to school everyday?
How do kids in other countries travel?