Rebecca Bathurst-Hunt

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   INQUIRY MINDSET

     From their youngest years our children are innately curious. They explore the world around them through play, imagination, and discovery. They build meaning, they create understanding and they unabashedly share this growth with their family and friends. It’s in this process that they find joy in life and relevance in the world around them.
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       Rebecca is a Kindergarten Teacher in the Greater Victoria School District, on beautiful Vancouver Island, BC, Canada. She currently teaches French Immersion at George Jay Elementary School.

She is passionate about incorporating inquiry practices with her learners. Rebecca also strives to foster wonderment, curiosity and a love of learning in her practice. 

Rebecca is the co-author of Inquiry Mindset with Trevor MacKenzie published with Elevate Books Edu.

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LOOSE PARTS STORAGE! ✨✨✨ This cart is fro LOOSE PARTS STORAGE! ✨✨✨ 
 
This cart is from IKEA and it’s such a great loose parts storage solution. The little time are also from IKEA and then the little pots are all recycled. ✨

It’s so great as it can move around the classroom, be used at different places and stores so much. I don’t have it out this year but hopefully next! 😅😅😅 

We enjoy using all the loose parts for play, story making, and of course counting collections. I learned about counting collections from @researchandplay !! She’s magic. ✨♥️

This photo and cart makes me so happy! I originally had planned on buying it all with grant money but then ended up not, because I loved it so much. ♥️
WORRY TOOLKITS! ♥️✨😅🌈🙌🏼 We have WORRY TOOLKITS! ♥️✨😅🌈🙌🏼

We have really been focusing on calming our worries this term. Our amazing counsellor has supported us in creating this fabulous toolkits! 🌈

Each week, we learned and experienced a new tool. The lessons were so helpful and responsive to what our littles needed. 🥰

The lessons were done by our counsellor and this kit is all her ideas, strategies and supports! So very thankful! I will definitely be making these every year from now on. Depending on the group, they could be framed as a calming kit too! ♥️✨

In the kit: 
✨Bear (from IKEA) to cuddle and trace the heart while breathing, connected to the Wemberley Worried story 
✨Playdough for squishing, rolling, or making hearts or smiley faces (their ideas)
✨Mini sparkle jar, they each got to make 
✨Mini bubbles to blow out their worries 
✨A slinky to be a breathing visual, pulling for in and out 
✨Calming card ring with visuals (seen on the bigger card on the right) 
✨5 senses breathing card 
✨A self-portrait of them breathing 

Please consider: Each strategy has been explicitly taught and introduced by our amazing counsellor. This was built over the course of 2 months. One item was added at a time, they know how to use each item super well and can explain how to use them. This process was very intentional, slow and responsive to their needs. 😊

What are you go-to strategies for supporting big worries and anxieties with littles? ♥️
LEPRECHAUN MAGIC! ☘️✨🌈 Lots of Leprechau LEPRECHAUN MAGIC! ☘️✨🌈

Lots of Leprechaun fun and magical stories being played out here. This was such a magical creation made during our StrongStart visit. 🌈🌈🌈

The pot of gold, rainbow and the gems bring me a lot of joy! 💎😊

What’s your March fave spring provocation??
UNDERWATER CODING STORIES! 🐳 Today we explored UNDERWATER CODING STORIES! 🐳

Today we explored creating our own coding underwater adventures! ✨

We used our loose parts and used squares of paper to create our own arrows.⬆️↖️↘️↙️↩️

We were weaving in story telling into this process too. Some creatures were swimming, others were searching for treasure, others were almost creating video game like features to their coding paths, and some were making maps or mazes. 🤩

This was suuuuuch a hit. They could have gone on and on, and on! 😅
SENSORY SPRING! 🌼🌷🌸🌱☘️ This rice SENSORY SPRING! 🌼🌷🌸🌱☘️

This rice was made in the summer inspired and guided by @aplayfulpurpose sensory course. Her course and her ideas are super inspiring and allllll play-based. You should check her out. ♥️

Many of you shared with me that using rice for sensory isn’t the most respectful choice for sensory. This guidance led me to some learning on how in some cultures rice is sacred and isn’t for playing. I am thankful for this knowledge and am aware of checking with the families in my care. I am also aware of reusing things I have or have made, and not just tossing this. I so appreciate you teaching me. 🥰

The eggs and loose parts are by @joguines_grapat from @dillydallykids and @abbysprouts ! ✨

The little jars are @petit_pot and the lids can be round at @rootcellar sometimes! My Mum ordered spring colours online last year. They are fun for storage and for scooping and playing. 😊
DOLLARAMA HACK DIY! 🐥🐰🥚🐣 When @joysof DOLLARAMA HACK DIY! 🐥🐰🥚🐣

When @joysofkinder alerted me about these felt finger puppet spring chicks and bunnies being at Dollarama, I ran! 🏃🏼‍♀️

8 finger puppets for $1.50!?!? They come blank with felt sort of stickers, as a little craft kit. 🥳🥳

After lots of texts back and forth with @joysofkinder the decision was made to embroider faces on, the whole way thru both layers of felt. I tried doing the whole needle inside thing, but the finger holes are pretty small and it just wasn’t worth it. So we then came up with the idea of sewing right thru and backing their little heads with a felt heart, glued on with hot glue. Worked really well! 🤩

Also, can we talk about these DISCO EGGS?!? 🕺🏽✨🥚 Also, Dollarama! These will make for some fun spring time stories as loose parts! 🌷🌼 

For some (or many) reason(s) my eyes get teary thinking about spring, it has been a lonnnnnng school year and the thought of more sunshine in our days is just magical and bringing me some hope. ✨🥰

Let’s bring on the spring loose parts and more time in the sunshine! ✨☀️
PUBLISHING STORIES!! ✨♥️😌 We have been w PUBLISHING STORIES!! ✨♥️😌

We have been working at creating sharing our stories using our Story Making folder. As the children build and play out their stories with loose parts, we scribe the children’s stories and they document by illustrating and labelling with some initial sounds and stretched out words. We keep them all in a folder. I have this folder saved under my Story Studio highlight and the template we use in my bio, If you’re curious! 🧐

This term, inspired by the magical @readingpowergear, we went thru our story folders and chose one we were most proud of to publish! I then typed them up, they did good copies of their art and painted them, and we did some reflecting on our stories. ✨

I am hoping to make each child a book of everyone’s published story to take home. Fingers crossed it works! 😀

It was so interesting seeing which story they chose. Some chose recent stories and some chose stories back from October! 😅 

This publishing process, inspired by @readingpowergear, has been so sweet and special so far! It also allowed me to read, one on one, all of their stories with or to them. I loved it. ♥️

Also! They loved giving their work a title and a reflection of why they felt proud of their story. 🥰🥰
KINDNESS! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜✨ I am than KINDNESS! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜✨

I am thankful for your kindness, connection and support in our community through the gram. I so adore connecting, sharing, learning and teaching alongside all of you! ♥️

Important discussions today about kindness, being advocates with our voice, inclusion and the power of words. 👚😊

I feel like all of these discussions and topics are on repeat (so important) for educators, parents and caregivers! Today is an awesome way to bring more attention and energy to the topics, but truly they are woven into our day to day discussions and support with our students. ♥️

#pinkshirtday 

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SPRING, IS THAT YOU? 🐞✨🌱🪱🐌 We’re SPRING, IS THAT YOU? 🐞✨🌱🪱🐌

We’re experimenting with loose parts outdoors for story making and play! These little @joguines_grapat insects are just soooo sweet. 🐞🪱🐌🪲

It’s funny because this photo was taken two weeks ago, prior to our snowfall, which has now almost cleared up and totally melted. ☀️🌦🌬⛄️☔️ Oh, Victoria weather. ♥️ Sending my friends in colder and challenging weather all the love and positive thoughts. 

We’ve been playing with what can and should or might come outdoors for outdoor story making and play! 🥰

Our first time outdoors the children showed me that perhaps less us more. I had filled their bags and now have taken some things out. The little creatures and characters were a hit, and of course a few gems. ✨✨✨

I also love the wooden mushrooms, people, trees and such, and of course this little sweet wooden vase at the back. The vase was used for grass picking, but hopefully eventually for daisies! 🌼

-Insects, trees and honey combs are  @joguines_grapat from @abbysprouts 
-Wooden loose parts and blank pegs are from Spectrum Nasco 
-Gems are from Dollarama 

What are you most excited about for spring with your littles?! 🌈🌦☔️🥰
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