During inquiry project, I intially assess interest within a project. What are the kids excited about? What do they talk about most? What do they discuss outside of inquiry time? What are the children passionate about? After carefully documenting interests, I think begin to create a planning web where I tie these areas of interest to expectations in the curriculum that allign well. This web then acts as a guide but also is flexible as the focus of our project changes. During this project (and many other inquiries in kinder), when I went back to look at our web part way through the project, I was amazed at how many areas on the web we had already explored simply through the curiousity of the children. I will often make lists of things we may want to think about to structure the project. The philosophy of a child being fully capable and a co-constructor was impossible to ignore as we planned our party and, without me saying a thing, the children came up with all of the things on my list and much more than I could have come up with. From tickets to souvenir bracelets to refreshments to hats for the Madagascar workers to a count-down calendar to a brightly coloured table cloth for refreshments to "quality control" to ensure that our village is sturdy and ready for vistors - they had it all! Take a look at my little co-constructors of our project in action:
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