Parent helpers join us during centres time and for special activities. Some of our other regular activities include journal writing and drawing, home visits by Jesse Bear, reading with our grade three book buddies and visits to our class by the I-Care Cat. Sometimes we get together to share activities with the kindergarten children at Nelson Whynder School. . This is also where we keep our journals, picture dictionaries and latest writing projects. As the year progresses, children work more independently in this centre and journal writing in incorporated into a whole class writing or reading choice time.
Children often share their journal entries with the class during sharing time.
The writing centre is also the home of our dramatic play area, a large cardboard box that is transformed into a variety of settings. The walls of the box house our latest poem charts, brainstorm webs and art projects. . Our science centre has a sand table which, depending on our theme, holds sand for sifting, building and playing with, soil for planting, rocks for weighing and comparing, tools or leaves for sorting, water for floating and sinking, cans and boxes for rolling, sliding and building and a range of other items and materials. Our science centre also has a block construction area, a discovery table and an activities table. When the weather permits, we like to explore the outdoors.