by Pinar NICHOLSON | Nov 18, 2021 | ECC
It has been great to observe that the children have begun to develop an understanding of our central idea: “Our choices influence our life.” They have begun to understand that every body part has an important job to do and they help us to do different things. This...
by Pinar NICHOLSON | Nov 11, 2021 | ECC
This week we have begun our inquiry into the human body with learning about the parts of our head. While watching a video clip about this part of our body, we each drew a head from our perspectives. It was amazing to see that each child came up with a very different...
by Pinar NICHOLSON | Oct 14, 2021 | ECC
All children have a special connection to their names which gave us a perfect starting place for teaching about letter-sound connection. Each day for two weeks, we chose a star child for the day and studied each child’s name. At the end of each session, we made a...
by Pinar NICHOLSON | Sep 29, 2021 | ECC
This week, we have started to unpack our central idea through discussing and practicing the process of “thinking”. We participated in different simple thinking routines in order to deepen our understanding. The children have begun to understand that, without noticing,...
by Pinar NICHOLSON | Sep 22, 2021 | ECC
This week we made a human graph to show what our favourite colours are. Some students were invited to interpret the results by answering questions using the human graph “Which was the most popular colour?”, “How many students liked it?”, “Which was the least favourite...
