Preschool Calgary

Our mornings begin with a moment of free play in the hall of our school. We leave a wide variety of toys at the children’s disposal and encourage them to play collaboratively while watching their games.

We realized that the majority of children began to play with the toys that somehow made possible the buliding of structures. When we asked them what they had done, the answers were the most varied: "castles, houses, bridges, parking lots for race cars, towers, etc.
 
In view of all the children’s amazing creations we decided to turn construction into a project and deepen their knowledge about the aspects that involve constructions working with the project, "Small Engineers". With this theme we explored balance, stability, height/size, etc. We also took the opportunity to show the characteristics of some important buildings in Calgary like The Calgary Tower, The Bow Building, The Peace Bridge among other beautiful places of our city.

During the project the children were challenged to build their structures with different types of materials, thus testing and learning about their properties and characteristics.

Building structures is a project that allows us not only to increase children’s knowledge of the world but also to work in the different areas that involve the curriculum of children’s education: mathematics, language, science, arts, fine motor skills.