Who thought that we would be requiring preschoolers to sign official contracts!? Well today, we designed what is called a Community Care Contract. With how far our Owls have advanced this year, we are confident that they can be self-regulate much more easily and therefore can understand the way that their actions affect the rest of our classroom community. So we proposed three questions that can help guide our friends navigate the Owl room:
Is it kind?
Is it safe?
Does it build community?
After discussing what each of these means, every community member signed the contract.
This morning we noticed that all of our caterpillars had turned into chrysalises! Each chrysalis attached to the lid of their plastic cup using caterpillar silk. The next step in their butterfly process was to pin the plastic lids to the top of the butterfly pavilion so that when they emerge they will be able to fly.
We also began to experiment with what we can make out of masking tape. Early in the morning Kevin made a "blocker" that sat in the middle of the book area. We decided to move the creation elsewhere so that people could still move in our classroom, and we noticed that it looked very much like a spider web. We became inspired to make a spider web in our classroom out of tape, and we also enjoyed putting tape on pretty much every other area in the room as well.
Other Owlings:
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| A Puppet theater in dramatic play |
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| Guitar hero |
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