Learning invitations

Are you looking for some simple yet highly engaging investigation areas and learning invitations to start the school year? Play-based learning is the best way to engage your students and encourage them to take an active role in their learning so this school year, welcome your students with investiga

When you think about invitations and provocations what do you think is most significant? What is the relationship between an invitation and provocation?

I think it’s safe to say that the warmer weather is FINALLY here to stay (fingers crossed), and we couldn’t be happier about it! This means water play ideas for preschoolers will be the name of the game. We need all the outdoor time we can get after such a long winter. Just before we

3 Steps to Setting Up a Learning Provocation

Jen~Where Learning Meets Play on Instagram: “Invitations to play galore! The photo save/share post that so many of you request.😘😘 Focus: letter recognition & formation, /j/ initial…”

Why Morning Invitations? I started them because my children are early risers and I am sooo not a morning person. Morning invitations allowed us to: Start our morning slowly Start our morning quietly-ish Start our morning creatively (and often bookishly) What is a Morning Invitation So this slow, quiet, creative, bookish morning sounds nice, but […]

While we were having our Gingerbread Man adventures the you read about in the last post, we were also having some other holiday fun! The kids drew and cut out an evergreen and decorated it with buttons. Some kindness elves visited us and encouraged us to spread kindness everywhere we went! Story-telling and writing were encouraged in our block area. They created an observational drawing of these beautiful poinsettias. We also created gifts for our families. The kids used glass, white balls…

Setting up invitations to play doesn't need to be complicated, time consuming or use expensive resources. Find out how to create your own using simple materials and the reason why we use invitations for early learning. Includes a huge photo gallery of real ideas from educators.

Teaching the early years chemistry strand and looking for some engaging and educational science provocations? This blog post has 5 hands-on learning invitations to help you teach about Materials and their Properties. There are also tips and ideas to help you set up your very own purposeful early ch

Grab these printable 2D Shape STEM challenge cards to add to your pattern blocks! Hands-on way for kindergarten aged children and first graders to learn how to make new shapes from other 2D shapes. These easy to prep printable 2D shape cards include three different sets of cards to challenge children while they learn about shapes and geometry in math while making differentiation easier than ever! #kindergartenmathcenters #stemcenters #firstgrademath #2dshapes #patternblockactivities