Your kids may have mentioned that this week we are having two choice times a day. I've done some research that shows that kindergarten students progress best when they have time to learn in a guided environment during play. I'm pretty sure that the students are going to enjoy our two choice times a day but I will evaluate it to see if I find it beneficial.
Today we had one of our choice times in the class where the focus was on making paper airplanes and building snail homes. These activities are very student driven and create a lot of social interaction.
During our outside choice time all of the paper airplanes were brought outside to play with. We built a course to measure how far the airplanes can fly. The group has been creating airplanes for a few weeks. It will be interesting to see how long this interest lasts for.
After choice time we have a discussion about what was learned -
- that the higher the plane goes the farther it goes
-that wind can make the planes go faster
-that poorly built planes don't fly very well.
-that you can learn to build a new type of plane by a friend
-that you can work with people that you normally don't
That's a lot of learning during play time.
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| A collection of paper airplanes made by one student. You can see the amount of work involved in planning as they are all a different design. |
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| This is the course that measures the distance that an airplane can fly. The markings are one yard in length. |
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| The course was very busy. |
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