Term 2 Discovery time

The bird house

Using hammers and timber for imaginative play.

This term I have decided to follow a general theme for discovery time. Today we had our most successful session which was about construction with a focus on sharing.
The amount of language that came out of this session was amazing. One child told me that he was making a bird house but the bird had not arrived yet. Later he told me that the bird was "arriving now" and that he had made a bed for the bird. we then talked together about where birds sit and how we could make a bird perch for the bird to sit on. this was a fabulous conversation which then sparked other children to make houses for other animals.