First, we gather all of our ideas, knowledge, and observations about a material, then children share a multitude of creative ways to use the material. We talk about how we can take care of the materials and then we begin to use them.
After children work with the materials, trying different ideas from our list and from their own knowledge, we silently share our work and discuss what we noticed about other people's work and what we like about our own work.. Finally, we practice the safe care of the materials.
Children come away from these Guided Discoveries with many new ideas of how to use a material and more interest in working together on new, bigger projects.
This week, our Guided Discoveries included...
White boards and markers
Magnetic Letter Boards
Clay
Ask your child how s/he used the materials and if s/he was inspired to try using them a different way after our sharing.
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