Fall provocations kindergarten

Hallowe’en is such a fun time of the year for children and such a great opportunity for educators to leverage intentional learning based on child-led interests. Below are some experiences tha…

A list of activities to do in the fall with your kindergarten students. Have fun with these autumn-themed play-based learning centers.

Children love art! They love to take paint, pastels, watercolors, crayons, colored pencils, markers and clay and create things of beauty. The things they love to create when they have a choice are more about the process than the end product. They want to create lines and colors and see what happens! We spent the first month learning how to take care and use the tools that artists use. I didn't have to teach them how to be creative! They come to me creative! They look at things with artist's…

The kids have started noticing signs of fall! They had started bringing me leaves, so I knew it was time to start investigating Fall! I started out by asking what they wondered about Fall. They came up with some very good questions! We posted the questions on our inquiry wall. This wall will grow as they wonder new things and answer the questions! I set out some provacations about Fall to see what they would notice. On our look closer table, I set out fall leaves and colored water to see…

These fun Fall block center play ideas from PreKinders will add interest to your blocks area while children learn about Fall this year!

Autumn is the perfect time for invitation to play because there are endless possibilities of materials to present your children.

Fall #STEAMED Challenge for #Preschool and #Kindergarten. Come Engineer a Free-Standing Tree with Leaves using ONLY 3 supplies. #STEMEd #STEAM #PreschoolTeacher #PreKTeacher #ArtEd

I have learned that inquires can spark in many different ways; students interests, conversations, emerging events, provocations, observing children in play, or simply by stepping outside into the outdoors and embarking on a nature walk. On our very first nature walk as a class, we asked the question, "What do you see?" The students in Room 9 noticed "red and green trees," "Canada flag leaves," and "different leaves." One student shared, during an outdoor Knowledge Building Circle, "I found a…