Construction Area

 

It was time to make a change to the construction area, so on Friday I put all the wooden blocks and the dinosaurs away for a little while. Out came the railway track and trains. Thank you to another donation the Kindergarten classroom now has two train tracks and little trains. When the children are creating the train track they will be working as a team and will be encouraged to listen and respond to others through the exchange of ideas, and espressing their feelings and opinions. This will be encouraged through some probing questions. This is where the purposeful play of the program comes into the various centres.  In order to encourage the children to participate in some writing experinces, they will be encouraged to draw and write about the experience in their journals.

 

On Monday, both the morning and afternoon children will create a list of other things that are needed to make the area more real to life and how will we get these things without spending any money. I am hoping they will think of ways of creating trees, houses, stores and highways that a real train passes by during the journey. I am also hoping they will think about railway crossing signs and other creative ideas. Many times the children's ideas are far more creative than ours.

 

I have left out the interlocking cubes for the children to create some things to enhance the journey of the train ride, and I have also left out the coloured little wooden blocks (which were another fabulous donation). On behalf of the children I want to thank all the parents for the wonderful donations you have made to the Kindergarten classroom.

 

Speaking of donations on behalf of Meadowvale School I want to thank all the parents for their overwhelming donations of food to Community Care. The front office area is packed with wonderful food donations that will be appreciated by all those who are less fortunate than ourselves. Thank you again for your generosity!