1. Letter of the Week
S s
Providing learning opportunities to spark a greater understanding of
people, cultures, animals, stores, and books; Teacher Gina excites the
children through active learning with real photographs
12. ReflectionsTeacher Gina placed the slides in a three ring binder with sheet
protectors, so the students can write the words in the writing center.
One student did the whole binder of writing the words.
The other students wanted to look at the pictures in the binder
during the afternoon reading time.
14. Swing!
Kinesthetic learners exploring
book that promotes movement
in the classroom through
reenacting the book
Ask the child to look for letter s
words in the book
The student performed the
sports
15. Star Wars 1 2 3
Suggested retail price of the
book was $12.99, Teacher Gina
purchased it for $.14.
Early mathematics learning skills
counting
The student pointing at the title
page said, “That is the new Star
Wars with Chewbacca.”
A student at pick up showed his
parents the Star Wars book
16. Gina imaginative use of
materials for the hill
During 2002 & 2009, she when
go tubing down the Hillberg Ski
Area on JBER
She placed her book
18. WednesdayAn older student was playing more at the concrete operational play
where he was building a mountain on the hill for the animals to slide
down the hill.
19. ThursdayGina places the container in the teacher’s breakroom for outside afternoon
time.
Gina decided to download the sand timer app for her phone to notify the
students that their time is up at sensory table.
The students asked, “Miss Gina, can we play with the snow? We want to
play.”
They were busy at the snow table using their imaginations to perform
variety types of play: solitary play, onlooker play, parallel play, associative
play, and cooperative play.
Students named all of the animals in the snow, buried the animals, fed the
animals the snow, and placed the animals in the fruit cup container full of
snow.
20. FridayThe students wanted the snow that Miss Gina made outside during
the morning play time, but she was not there.
The student was hiding the safari animals in the snow while asking
Miss Gina to guess what animal is in there. Providing serve and
return interactions is essential for student’s educational
opportunities.
I used dialogical reading and song referring to my niece’s school
exploration Pete the Cat School Shoes
