Today I want to share some inspiring invitations and provocations with loose parts that demonstrate the academic value of loose parts.
Storytelling with Loose Parts is where magic happens! Today, I want to share a few provocations with Loose Parts for the story: Three Billy Goats Gruff.
"Grab our free printable pattern pages, grab some loose parts ad work on fine motor skills, patterning, creativity and more!
Provocations can be overwhelming. Let's take a look at some simple ideas for literacy provocations found in a Reggio-Inspired Preschool.
Materials are set up for the children begging a response. Will the materials beckon the children to use them? A.M. explains that this is a different kind of snake that is eating poison cherries a…
I feel like all I've been doing this year is writing about boxes. These are the top and bottom of a long box that came along with our giant tube (which I've still not had the courage to cut up into shorter pieces). Watching children play with boxes makes me want to write a poem about them. Or sing a song. These they seem to like to hide under, together, making it feel for a few seconds as if there are fewer children at school today. Then suddenly they burst back out into the light, bringing with them all the sound and motion that we expect at Woodland Park. I wish I had a huge warehouse for storing these kinds of thing, but instead we need to use them up, wear them out, then either get them into the recycling bin or cut them up for art projects, like this incredible glue collage on which we've been working off and on for a couple weeks. A project built on a remnant of the last box we loved until it was no more. A collage made of the parts of other things we've used up, but not found the heart to throw out. And then when we're finished gluing, once it's all dry, then maybe we'll throw it out. If history is to be a guide, it will take a long time before that happens. I might even go over it a few weeks from now and pick it like carrion for parts to re-use yet one more time. In fact, I'm pretty sure much of it will soon be stuck to the side of our new long boxes. But not before we've loved them to pieces.
View our new spatial reasoning blog post: 10 Playful Spatial Reasoning Provocations Part 2 here. As our kindergarten team continues to learn more about children and their development in spatial thi…
Learning provocations are used in the classroom to "provoke" thought and motivate thinking or investigation. There is some debate regarding the difference between a learning invitation and a learning provocation. Many people use these terms interchangeably. A little research found that a
Are your students interested in emojis? Mine are obsessed! We stumbled upon this interest after setting out some loose parts for the children to explore in the first few weeks of school. One studen…
"Grab our free printable pattern pages, grab some loose parts ad work on fine motor skills, patterning, creativity and more!
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Pattern: When items are in a repeated sequence, they form a pattern. Children will recognize and create patterns. For example, when coloring they may shade a shirt in a “blue-red-blue-red” pattern.…
