I am a Reggio Emilia inspired Full Day Kindergarten teacher and mother to three young children. This blog is meant as a communication tool for the families of our children and as a learning tool for the many educators who follow us. Please feel free to comment on posts and participate in our collective understanding of emergent curriculum.
Families, last year our children experienced the richest inquiry of my career; inspired by an article in the Windsor Star they collected over 5000 food items in just over a week for The Downtown Mission. You can learn more about it by watching our digital documentation video.
We are again collecting non-perishable items in a school wide canned food drive from Monday, November 16 to Friday, December 11. We are hoping to use this collection as inspiration for rich classroom discussion and learning. Please consider helping us with such an important mission.
Families thank you for your response to our call for help! The children were so excited to count how many food items were donated today.
We used what we know about numbers to easily count the items that came to school this morning. One child suggested we place the items into groups of ten for easy counting. We quickly calculated that 44 items were donated!
We are keeping track of how many items have been collected in total on a large recording sheet using numbers and ten frames to help us organize our thinking.
The children helped us bring the food to our big display in the front entrance of the school.
The children were also eager to make more posters to help share their cause...
...and we announced our project over the p.a. system so the entire school could be informed!
