Throughout this week we continued exploring dinosaurs. As the children’s imaginations grew with each moving background, so did their stories. The children realized that now the dinosaurs need bridges to get from one place to another and this is where we are seeing science and building skills emerge. Soon enough some structural problems arose on how to balance their structures, how to make it sturdy enough for the big dinosaurs to cross over and how to prevent their bridge from falling. All of these situations require the children to use problem-solving as well as verbal skills.
Furthermore, as soon as the children applied the idea of a bridge taking us from one place to another, the idea of using maps came up. Some of the children started to draw maps as to help dinosaurs to get from point A to point B, some of the children had the idea of using a map to create a story about dinosaurs and other used it to reflect their understanding of how to move from one place to another.
It all started with dinosaur play and now our horizons have opened up to all of these new and exciting possibilities that children have brought up throughout this week.
