sol17-22 What about that?

I am participating in the
Slice of Life Story Challenge (SOLSC).
All participants are writing about one moment, one part of their day, every day of March 2017. 

A big thank you to Two Writing Teachers for providing this unique opportunity
for teacher-writers to share and reflect.

"Look, it can tie!"

"This is for screwing things in."

"I have six keys."

"I can pull this piece off."

"This goes around and around."

"Hear the music!"

"You can squeeze this part off."

"This is a part of my Mommy's purse."

"I want to open it."

"It is very, very, very soft."

"See, it is a triangle tape."

We have just begun our found objects exploration, a yearly pleasure for me. At home, the children collected ten small, inconsequential, extra items - things their families didn't need anymore - and we will investigate and re-use in art, engineering, literacy, and math projects. Today, they dumped out their bags of these found objects and wondered aloud about their findings. These little bits of odds and ends are such curiosities! Hearing their non-stop chatter and watching them manipulate the pieces in unexpected ways, I once again was reminded -preschoolers are instinctively engineers, scientists, artists, mathematicians, and storytellers.

Here's to the beginning of what I know will be a fun journey! All I want to do is sit back and record children's words and watch them think.