“Supporting Preschool Children’s Inquiry.”
The past couple of blog posts have covered how to let preschool children determine the themes they study and how to guide them to create lines of inquiry within that theme. In January, the children at Wildwood Nature School decided that they wanted to take a closer look at “mud and dirt.” The teachers used a Talking Box to zero in on the children’s interests and their specific questions about mud and dirt. From those talking box discussion, the teachers discovered that the ch
