The story of our year

April

I visited a Reggio inspired preschool for a professional development program and I became inspired by the photo stories that were on display sharing their inquiry process through photos, short, descriptive sentences and student quotes.  This year the kids and I created monthly posters titled "We Saw".  I printed photos of some of the events of the month and the kids helped with the captions.  Here are the month by month "stories of our year".

 

Up, up and away! Theme to start the year.

When I need to feel inspired for the new year I like to find a theme to focus my creativity.  This year I decided to use hot air balloon.  I had so much fun with the colorful balloons. I labeled each balloon with the student's name, using permanent marker.   I had each student color a coffee filter with washable marker.  Then I sprayed them with water to disperse the colors.  Those became the hot air balloons.  The baskets are cardboard squares also labeled with student's names.  When the students arrive at school they have fun finding their name and balloon and then those of their friends.