Teaching "Trees" through Trips
10/19/2018
It is well known that field trips help bridge the gap between classroom education and hands-on experience... To our EK students this week the highlights of "hands on" meant handling moose fur, finding and tasting wild cranberries and exploring a beaver home. Our trip to the Campbell Creek Science Centre gave us the chance to deepen and enhance our classroom study "Trees". Among the many potential outcomes, research has shown that field trips:
Our book interests this week...With a focus on "What lives in trees?" the children had picked out these two books from the shelf as favourites. We talked about activities we could do to enhance our areas of provision in the classroom. Here is what they came up with... The class are becoming much more independent in their learning choices, enabling us to focus on their particular interests.
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Melissa SmithMs. Smith has a degree in Early Childhood Education and has taught kindergarten for many years. Alaska has been home to Ms. Smith for 28 years, and she can't imagine living anywhere else! She has four children, a dog and two cats. She loves reading, camping, gardening, and genealogy! Archives
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