Play in ECE by Marianne Zmoda https://padlet.com/mzmoda/azve9rptzf4b Add a post with your current grade level or teaching area (Art? P.E.?) How do children "play" now in your current classroom. Make a curriculum connection. Click on the pink circle at the bottom right of the screen. Then click anywhere on the screen to have it post. I have started one as an example. en-us 2017-11-16 19:33:59 UTC 2017-12-03 16:19:55 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Apple.png Kindergarten mzmoda https://padlet.com/mzmoda/azve9rptzf4b/wish/208402260 Science-Working in pairs, students build a dam with water, twigs and dirt.]]> 2017-11-18 18:59:11 UTC https://padlet.com/mzmoda/azve9rptzf4b/wish/208402260 Kindergarten https://padlet.com/mzmoda/azve9rptzf4b/wish/208500805 Foundational Literacy Skills- Using finger paint, water colors, play dough, chalk, shaving cream, and stamps to make letters and words.]]> 2017-11-19 17:52:01 UTC https://padlet.com/mzmoda/azve9rptzf4b/wish/208500805 Kindergarten https://padlet.com/mzmoda/azve9rptzf4b/wish/208519634 Math: Students participate in an obstacle course while practice position words]]> 2017-11-19 20:02:41 UTC https://padlet.com/mzmoda/azve9rptzf4b/wish/208519634 Kindergarten https://padlet.com/mzmoda/azve9rptzf4b/wish/208519750 Social Studies: Students build a neighborhood map using blocks and signs from construction center]]> 2017-11-19 20:03:32 UTC https://padlet.com/mzmoda/azve9rptzf4b/wish/208519750 Social Studies: In housekeeping center students pretend to be the community helpers we have learned about. Example: A student pretended to be a police officer arresting "bad guys." https://padlet.com/mzmoda/azve9rptzf4b/wish/208760617 2017-11-20 15:40:15 UTC https://padlet.com/mzmoda/azve9rptzf4b/wish/208760617 Fifth Grade: https://padlet.com/mzmoda/azve9rptzf4b/wish/210082102 Social Studies: Students simulate the taxing on colonists using role play and M&Ms. ]]> 2017-11-25 22:35:00 UTC https://padlet.com/mzmoda/azve9rptzf4b/wish/210082102 Fifth Grade: https://padlet.com/mzmoda/azve9rptzf4b/wish/210082209 Math: Students work with partners to play a game to demonstrate their understanding of Powers of 10 by moving the decimal point.]]> 2017-11-25 22:37:22 UTC https://padlet.com/mzmoda/azve9rptzf4b/wish/210082209 Pre K https://padlet.com/mzmoda/azve9rptzf4b/wish/210194648 Students create a birthday cake using M&Ms to practice AB and ABC patterns
 ]]> 2017-11-26 20:11:16 UTC https://padlet.com/mzmoda/azve9rptzf4b/wish/210194648 Third Grade: https://padlet.com/mzmoda/azve9rptzf4b/wish/210202813 Math: Students work together on multiplication and division games throughout the year. They play games with that typically involve dice, and cards.

]]> 2017-11-26 21:08:27 UTC https://padlet.com/mzmoda/azve9rptzf4b/wish/210202813 P.E. https://padlet.com/mzmoda/azve9rptzf4b/wish/211139085 Kindergarten students use scooters as "cars" and learn the rules of the road then take their cars into the hallway to earn their Driver's Licenses. ]]> 2017-11-28 19:56:43 UTC https://padlet.com/mzmoda/azve9rptzf4b/wish/211139085 Kindergarten https://padlet.com/mzmoda/azve9rptzf4b/wish/212117857 Developmental Play: Students dress like community helpers in the dramatic play center. They act out roles of the community helpers that are discussed in reading and social studies. ]]> 2017-12-01 00:28:12 UTC https://padlet.com/mzmoda/azve9rptzf4b/wish/212117857 First Grade: https://padlet.com/mzmoda/azve9rptzf4b/wish/212230426 STEM/Social Studies: Students make a house for the Fourth Little pig using recycled materials. Then they pretend to be the wolf to see if they can get in.]]> 2017-12-01 12:47:27 UTC https://padlet.com/mzmoda/azve9rptzf4b/wish/212230426 Pre-Kindergarten: https://padlet.com/mzmoda/azve9rptzf4b/wish/212357816 Students create finger puppet characters to retell the story of the Gingerbread Man.  The characters/ props can then be adapted to different versions- Gingerbread baby, girl, mouse, etc.]]> 2017-12-01 17:14:33 UTC https://padlet.com/mzmoda/azve9rptzf4b/wish/212357816 Pre K https://padlet.com/mzmoda/azve9rptzf4b/wish/212613093 Students practice 1-1 and rote counting by rolling a dice and counting out that many feathers to put on their Turkey. They can do something similar for winter with buttons on a gingerbread man or snowman. Can be differentiated by letting more advanced students use more dice to count higher numbers. 

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