Rebecca Bathurst-Hunt

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PUMPKIN SMALL WORLD! ✨🎃🐈 How fun is this

PUMPKIN SMALL WORLD! ✨🎃🐈

How fun is this!! Would make such a great provocation to inspire play, stories, and creations.

If it was for littles to play with I would use switch tea light candles instead of real ones! ✨😅

Thanks to @inspiremyplay and @aplayfulpurpose for your beautiful inspiration! ♥️🥰

STORY STUDIO STORAGE ✨✨✨ This is our loose

STORY STUDIO STORAGE ✨✨✨

This is our loose part dreams come true!! This unit is huge and the shelves are super deep. Each row has 6 containers fulllllllll of beautiful loose parts! Ahhhhhhhhhh 🥰🥰🥰

As a Kindergarten team we have made our yearly pro-d focus on Story Studio with a focus on the StoryMaker cycle. We are focusing on ideas, curiosity, oral language and then overtime weaving in beginner writing.

We will use this storage unit to sign out and bring the loose parts back to our classroom. The containers are for us, the educators to use to transport. The containers aren’t part of the story telling. Just storage.

The book picture: StoryMaking is what guided our professional learning today. We also worked on organizing this cupboard as our loose parts shared storage.

We used grant money to purchase the loose parts and storage containers. We also had many families donate loose parts (we quarantined or wiped them down).

The label maker ran out half way thru, so stay tuned for more labels and a bulletin board (🤞🏼) above to document our process and learning.

⭐️We used grant money and donations ⭐️All containers are from Dollarama
⭐️We made fabric for each cohort (we have 5 kinder classes, so 3 cohorts)
⭐️ we are quite strict with cleaning, quarantine days and individual supplies, hence all the items to provide lots of opportunities!
⭐️Most loose parts are from dollarama
⭐️The big grey containers are to carry the smaller ones to our classrooms as this unit is in the hall. Yes it has a lock.
⭐️We held back any duplicate sets of items as back up as we know not all the little pieces will always make it back.

We can’t wait to use the items and are thankful for our families and our PAC!

Stay tuned for story makers creating and sharing. 🥳

NATURE FACES! ✨☀️🌾🌱🍂 These just m

NATURE FACES! ✨☀️🌾🌱🍂

These just make me smile!! 🙂

As part of our #identityinquiry we have been enjoying making various representations of ourselves! Today we helped mix our skin colours out of plasticine and added nature elements as parts of our face.

⭐️ I premixed some colours, then they added lighter or darker depending on what they felt best matched their skin
⭐️ I would recommend splitting this into a few mini activities or lessens; everyone’s hands were VERY tired. Ha!
⭐️ I would also recommend mixing the colours indoors, not outdoors when it’s cold like we did today 😅
⭐️They were SO proud and so excited to take these home today and continue to create with the plasticine!

Sore hands but big smiles! 😅♥️🥰
#inquirymindset

We jumped on the cardboard box photo collage idea!

We jumped on the cardboard box photo collage idea! How fun! They loved sitting inside the box and posing as they felt represented them. 🥰

I didn’t quite fit, but still wanted to join in the fun! 😋

We then added our DNA: Dreams, Needs and Abilities, thanks to @mrsmacskinders who inspired us with this. We have woven this into our Identity Inquiry, link in bio! ♥️

We read many different books to chat about our Dreams, Needs and Abilities. For more on DNA visit @mrsmacskinders page and her blog!! 👍🏽

I took the photos, cropped them and made the collage using google slides, you could use power point too! I added text box and they got to pick the colour for their names.

I printed this on two 11x17 papers and taped them together and now they’re on our classroom door for all to see! Yippee! ✨

And yes, I have a bigger class than 11, I have 19 kiddos. The collage was too big for the frame on IG! 😂

#identityinquiry #inquirymindset

Building caves for the Loup Foufou (the Wolf) from

Building caves for the Loup Foufou (the Wolf) from La Poule Maboule, the story we are learning. 🐺

We are using this story to build oral language, develop confidence in French, practice sequencing and retelling and to INSPIRE our own stories using the target language and vocab. Yay! ✨

We loved building these caves today we part of our retelling! 🐺

What do you LOVE to wear? ✨✨ Another guiding

What do you LOVE to wear? ✨✨

Another guiding question from our structure #identityinquiry !! The link to the booklet and resource is in my bio.

We’re loving exploring what makes us feel happy when we get dressed and what we love to wear.

This invitation was a PUMP and create. Sanitizer and create 😅😋

#inquirymindset @joysofkinder

This invitation was inspired by @connetix_tiles 🙏🏼

This is us! ✨♥️ After lots of discussions,

This is us! ✨♥️

After lots of discussions, questions and books that inspired thinking about how we are similar, unique, important and special, together we created this collaborative art piece that represents part of us!

We are loving inquiring into US and having the opportunity to share about ourselves.

#identityinquiry #inquirymindset @joysofkinder ♥️

I love beginner writing!!! ✨✨✨ I love supp

I love beginner writing!!! ✨✨✨

I love supporting children in developing their writing, printing and building an understanding and confidence in sharing their ideas. I love celebrating and reflecting on their writing with them. They are so proud. ♥️

Today was our first journal write. It was exciting! Of course there was a lot of steps and modelling, as we do with everything at this time of year. 😅

Our top line is for copying a word. Then our bottom line is for our own writing. Some of us add our names or other words we can write. Over time this shifts to initial sounds and invented spelling that are connected to our illustration. We also can label our image with initial sounds and letters if we feel confident. ✏️

We work on making big, bold and beautiful illustrations that match our text. Thanks to @audrey.moore13 for teaching me this tip!

⭐️ giant clips keep our page ready to go. I move the clips for the next time.
⭐️ stamps are from @strong_nations it’s a set.
⭐️these are the blank blue journal, we use them til winter break. Yes I draw lines and arrows on every single page with a ruler.

When you start your week off with an outdoor crazy

When you start your week off with an outdoor crazy wind dance party under a beautiful rainbow with your favourite littles! 🎶✨💨🌈🌧🥳

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