Rebecca Bathurst-Hunt

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SHELTER INQUIRY DOCUMENTATION! ✨🐻🐿🦊🐺

SHELTER INQUIRY DOCUMENTATION! ✨🐻🐿🦊🐺🐰

What a fabulous learning experience for my littles. From literacy, to story making and sharing, shelter creating, art experiences, research focus groups on their chosen animals, and reflections on how their thinking changed. 💭💭💭

I always love seeing how much littles LOVE researching animals!!!

I documented their learning out in our bulletin board, they’re obsessed with following along and helping place artifacts. 😊

Another powerful peace for us was reflecting on how our thinking changed: did we answer our wonders, did we discover new learning and thinking, did our learning earth up new questions and curiosities? This was the last page in our animal research booklets. 🥰

They also enjoyed reflecting through their research booklets and choosing the page and research they felt most proud of. We displayed these “proud” documentation pages up on our board. ✨

Also, their animal shelters, dens, caves and burrows!! Ahhhh! 😍

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STORY MAKER DOCUMENTATION! ✨ Do your littles l

STORY MAKER DOCUMENTATION! ✨

Do your littles love story making and story play? Perhaps some are showing an interest in documenting their stories or having you support them documenting their stories? This open-ended template may help! 😊

I loved where @lisacatherine81 was headed with her littles and felt inspired to create this! ✨

Link is in my bio if you’re wanting to grab your copy, it’s in French and English! I hope you all enjoy the process of imaging your stories, playing them out with loose parts or toys, and then creating and sharing them together!

This process is from the Story Making book by Michelle Jay Compton and Robin Chappele. ♥️ An educator resource you just check out!

I’d love to see how you document your stories with your story makers at home, in your classroom setting and learning environments. 💭💭💭

If you’re supporting your child at home, consider making a little basket story maker invitation like I have in this photo! It was so fun putting together! ♥️♥️♥️

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Care package dropped off on one of kindergarten fr

Care package dropped off on one of kindergarten friend’s front doorsteps this evening. ♥️✨

When one of your littles gets hurt outside (he’s going to be ok!) and the rest of your classroom family is uber concerned about their pal, you skip numeracy focus time and make cards and sweet messages to wish them well. ✨

We even found some tattoos, a notebook and pencils with smiles on them to add to his care package. 😊

Sometimes you forgo the plan to respond to the needs of your learners. My littles were so concerned about their buddy they the learning that needed to take place wasn’t in our curriculum. However; in turn when we look closer we realize that it actually is. Beginner writing practices, coming up with a plan, being kind and nurturing an empathic heart, it’s all in this little box. ♥️

Today my littles reminded me how important our class family is. Today they reminded me that following their hearts and lead is more important than an adult agenda. ♥️

INQUIRY RESEARCH BOOKLET! ✨

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Thank you for all of your interest in this template. I have now made an editable version in French and English for you all! Just click the link in my bio to find it and get your copy! 🥰

You will need a gmail or google account to view, edit and print. It is in the format of a google slide document, similar to power point. It will have you made a copy, and then you can edit, print and respectfully use with your littles. 😊✨

Please consider tagging me when your using and sharing! I can’t wait to see how you implement this and facilitate research in inquiry with your littles. ♥️

It can also be found here:
bit.ly/IMRESEARCHBOOKLET

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Working on documenting our new learning, research

Working on documenting our new learning, research discoveries and findings in our RESEARCH BOOKLETS! ✨💭♥️

We have 5 focus groups working in our class family. Each group is researching the animal they felt the most curious about from the story “Shelter” by Celine Claire. 🥰

We’re looking to answering the essential question: what does my focus animal need/ do to survive? 🐿🐻🐰🦊🐺

So far we have been using non-fiction books for our research. When we use a book we circle the book icon in a way of documenting/citing our sources in a five year old way. If we use a video for research, we’d circle the video icon. I love this kindergarten approach to citing sources and beginning to understand that we gather and learn info from sources and it’s important to document and cite them.

We use a similar format of research booklets for most of our inquiries, making the documenting portion straightforward and somewhat familiar. 😅

What questions about primary aged kiddos doing research do you have for me?!

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Today we began an inquiry provoked from this story

Today we began an inquiry provoked from this story. 🐻🐺🐿🦊🐰 ✨

Today we read it in English, tomorrow in French. It’s such a beautiful story and I can’t wait to see where it takes us with research, kindness, and story studio.

I painted a set of five animals so they can have all of the characters for story studio play.

We began with free story play, read the book half way through, and then continued with free story studio. Many spent their time designing and building shelters for the animals.

Have you read this book!? It’s available in French and a English and ever so sweet. 🥰

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Cheers to a year of memories! ✨ 2020 brought l

Cheers to a year of memories! ✨

2020 brought lots of “us” time, kitty love, masks, sweat pants, 30th birthdays, chilli pepper growing, dancing/singing to Elton John in our living room, getting creative with family hangs, different teaching times with lots of hand sanitizer, and overall lots of love! ♥️♥️

Happy NYE to you and your loved ones! 🙋🏼‍♀️🙋🏻‍♂️🐱🐱✨

When setting up the Christmas Eve fondue table bri

When setting up the Christmas Eve fondue table brings you alllllllll the joy, you set it up the day before and just stare at it. 🥰✨♥️

Then you remember you have two crazy cats 🐱 and have to put it all to the side until tomorrow! 😂😅😅😂

Not pictured, the laptop stand so we can zoom with our family for our fondue Christmas Eve tradition! ♥️💻🫕

POTION MAKING MAGIC! ✨✨✨ Following their in

POTION MAKING MAGIC! ✨✨✨

Following their interest is so important. The excitement, engagement, play and collaboration is next level when we follow their lead.

Fairies, potions, fairy gardens and houses = all their interest. All of these I realized where their interest from WATCHING, OBSERVING, and LISTENING to their play. Sooooooo important.

Today our typical mud puddle potions became a bit more magical with glitter, shaving cream, coloured water and found objects. Oh what fun!!

How do you follow your learners’ interests? ✨✨✨✨

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