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HOW ARE YOU FEELING? 🙂🙃😭😥😬 We are

HOW ARE YOU FEELING? 🙂🙃😭😥😬

We are always so welcome and accepting of the feels that come from our littles, BUT HOW ARE YOU FEELING?!

✨Tired?
✨Exhausted?
✨Proud?
✨Happy?
✨Defeated?
✨Connected?
✨OVER IT?!
✨Lonely?
✨Sad?
✨Excited?
✨Hopeful?
✨Barely hanging in there, exhausted and counting down the days to a break? 🤪

A gentle reminder to welcome and feel your feelings with acceptance and kindness, just as you do for so many others. 🥰

So, how are you feeling?? ♥️

HOW TO INTRODUCE CODING! ✨😊🤩 Many of you

HOW TO INTRODUCE CODING! ✨😊🤩

Many of you asked, how did I introduce this? 🥰🥰🥰

Well, my first question to my littles was: WHAT IS CODING? This started a discussion and brainstorm about their connections and thoughts to coding. It was a great way to check for prior knowledge and connections. 🙌🏼

Many of them connected CODING to their bike lock code, or to the swimming pool locker codes. Fabulous connections! 🤩

Then we shifted to some exploration around the words: IF THIS, THEN THAT. We then explored how tablets, computers, phones, and technology all use code to run. We wove in the idea of instructions and recipes too! ✨

Then we shifted our focus to arrows. ⬆️⬇️
I had a provocation table set up and we played, explored and talked out how arrows can be very specific instructions to explain a path. 🤔

I gave examples of pretending to give instructions to my house that were very vague and then compared them to drawing an arrow map! They agreed the arrow map was much easier to follow. 😅

From this, grew littles making their own arrows, making treasure map code, coding pathways, and creating code challenges with arrows! 😊

I hope this is helpful! ♥️♥️♥️

HOW CAN YOU BUILD + REPRESENT A NUMBER? ✨🔢 D

HOW CAN YOU BUILD + REPRESENT A NUMBER? ✨🔢

Dreamy open-ended playful provocations to build and represent numbers. ✨✨✨

Thanks to @mooretoloveinkinder for gifting these beautiful @mooretolovelearningresources ! ♥️

We’ve been doing a lot of whole group counting chanting and games, been making a class book to show and represent a variety of numbers, and practicing connecting numerals to sets of objects.

Lots of counting and fun going on in our room! 1️⃣2️⃣3️⃣3️⃣4️⃣5️⃣6️⃣7️⃣8️⃣9️⃣🔟

The orange and green cones are @joguines_grapat 😊

#inquirymindset

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! ✨☀️

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