Structures

 

What can structures look like in Kindergarten? First you require a variety of sizes and shapes of wooden blocks.Then you need to have some determined five and six year old's who work well as a team, share the materials well and listen to each other's ideas and suggestions. Next you need some students who have been focused and shared their thinking about various structures, stability and supports. Finally the students need to be risk takers, eager to try a number of ideas, and patient when the result does not work out well. Lastly, the students must be able to think, plan, follow through with the plan and attempt new ideas when things don't work out as planned. When you have all these elements in place the results are overwhelming!

 

 

 

 

All these were created in one afternoon by four boys. As you can see these structures are evidence of learning about shapes, design, supports, stability and lots of team work and rich language communication. All the learning will prepare these boys for the other learning opportunities. All this learning took place in a play based Kindergarten program.