The children have two loves recently.
1. The chickens.
2. The block area.
They have managed to marry the two into a wonderful invention/creation called "The Chickie Playground". These future architects plan out and build wonderful structures designed to entertain, exercise and delight the chickens (and the children!).
This adventure started out by one child saying they wanted to build her chick a "home". Like any good idea it grew from there. After some discussion (including the teachers having to explain why the two story pretend firehouse was not a good idea to put the baby chicks into and use as a house) the group decided that building something where the chicks could stay close to the ground and couldn't get hurt would be safer. After all, we do have to follow PAWS LAWS to be Safe, be Responsible and be Kind. Thus, the idea of a playground was hatched!
1. The chickens.
2. The block area.
They have managed to marry the two into a wonderful invention/creation called "The Chickie Playground". These future architects plan out and build wonderful structures designed to entertain, exercise and delight the chickens (and the children!).
This adventure started out by one child saying they wanted to build her chick a "home". Like any good idea it grew from there. After some discussion (including the teachers having to explain why the two story pretend firehouse was not a good idea to put the baby chicks into and use as a house) the group decided that building something where the chicks could stay close to the ground and couldn't get hurt would be safer. After all, we do have to follow PAWS LAWS to be Safe, be Responsible and be Kind. Thus, the idea of a playground was hatched!
The children use a variety of materials to build the playground. The chick begins to explore! |
The children sit back and observe how the chick navigates through the playground and they talk about what is working and what they want to do differently when they build the next structure. |