Choice time is an integral part of each day in our classroom, providing children with an opportunity to be self-directed, pursue their own ideas, and practice critical social skills in a less structured setting.  It also gives them an opportunity to integrate their learning into play, a wonderful way to synthesize new understanding and practice skills in different contexts.  Some recent choice times found children:

• writing recipe books
• using animal track stamps to make tales with tracks
• studying photos of tracks and drawing/writing about them in science notebooks (thanks to Sarah for sharing both the track book and photos)
• watching birds at the feeder and in the surrounding trees    
• creating game boards and using them to play the game
• reading an animal track book 
• creating structures with various materials    
• building an animal hospital to care for sick and injured animals

Writing recipes- what do you like in your smoothies?

A boat with lots of fish.

Creating a game board...

and playing the game.

Reading about tracks.

Caring for sick animals.