Our class projects and ideas have been centered around community. We haven't explored that word yet, but it is clear that our interests stem from this. Keeping this in mind, our question to explore today was "What stories live in the forest?" Since children often play group games, we wondered what would happen if we asked them to think about their games as stories.
B - "Every time they have a meeting we show up. They will never get to make a plan!"
M - "Hold on to the crystals girls. Don't let them go. I found them on the ground. Let's keep looking for more."
Other students were standing watch to make sure the crystals are safe.
Let's play a new game. This time bad guys are all around us and we have to hide out in the forest. Now we have to build hide outs.
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Children have been experimenting with a kind of play called "games with rules". This is when children come up with rules to accompany a game. Usually this involves a heavy hand from the teacher, however, our class makes this up on their own. They negotiate with each other to determine the rules of the game and enforce it with each other.
It has been so exciting to watch their bonds deepen as each day continues and how that affects the games they create.
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Ask your child about a fun game we played as we walked to The Forest today! It was a rhyming game where we said a silly word that rhymed followed by the right word.
"Not Miss Wooke, Miss Brooke!"
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