See what it is like in our classroom when our students freely flow throughout the room and make decisions about what they want to do. They are all calm and very focused! The environment is acting as the third teacher. It supports and challenges the students to achieve at their greatest potential. The educators work in small differentiated mini lesson groups. They are facilitators of the literacy, play, and inquiry-based learning.
What do you observe/notice? What are you left wondering?
Seems like a small group...how many children are in the class?
ReplyDeleteWhat program are the children creating on in the digital studio?? looks great!!
ReplyDeleteAlso were those individual documentations binders seen below you solar system inquiry
ps... Big Fan
Trista Langrell
Hello,
ReplyDeleteWe have 26 students in our class. Not all of the children have permission to show their faces in video clips or photographs, so they were behind me. This would explain the lower than usual numbers, however, the classroom functions much the same when all 26 are there. Every student is engaged and very independent!
The students were creating with Tux Paint in our Digital Studio! And those were individual documentation binders!
Thanks for being a fan!
Sincerely,
Joanne Babalis
Joanne,
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing. So inspiring. You've done a beautiful job using the environment. Have you shared your daily schedule or could you? Also, What are the two kraft paper charts hanging up a bit higher with yellow post its? They look like a board to guide reading and math work at some point in your day?
Thank you for any further insight to your day - Mandy
The music is so pretty. What is playing?
ReplyDeleteThank you for your all you the info you are providing. At our school we have started implementing inquiry based units but they are teacher initiated. We all felt a little lost at the beginning but as we learn more we are becoming more confident. Is it possible that you share your daily and weekly schedule. Our K4 and K5 students have a full day schedule and have so many things going on in their day. I am pushing for us to have a more flexible schedule and I am looking for examples to back up what we are asking for.
ReplyDeleteThanks again! This is an amazing blog!