Bananas are Rolling into Spring!
April Study: Wheels I'm not sure if you knew this about some of your children, but they are OBSESSED with all things that move. Whether it's playing with vehicles in the block center or spinning on the saucers outside, they love things that move! At the end of our buildings study, we allowed the students to vote on our next study and they had the choice between Water, Clothes, or Wheels and they overwhelmingly chose the Wheels study! Again, the Teaching Strategies curriculum that we use at Frankie Lemmon is meant to take what we think we know about topics and stretching it out to create a deeper learning experience that encourages discussion and questions. We start by exploring the topic and looking at what we already know about wheels, such as different kinds of wheels we see in our daily lives and how wheels help us. We talked about big wheels/little wheels, wheels that push/pull, and why some things have 1, 2, 3, or 4+ wheels. As we moved further into the topic, we inves...