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Layla: That was the place with the largest amount of rain in one day.
Layla gives the child the globe – as the child is looking on the globe Layla stands in front
of chart paper on the back wall and asks the children “what the top ten best parts of our
weather project has been.” Meanwhile the child finds Reunion on the globe and tells of
having found it on a map at home which is on a pillow!
Hands go up and a list is compiled including “making the weather game” and “doing our
top tens.” One for the children mentions “sketching the weather when we go for walks.”
Layla then says, “Let’s revisit our walk yesterday. Does anyone have anything to share –
what we said, what we felt?” Some of the answers included “buds,” “little leaves
growing,” “we felt the fresh air” and “the garbage.” Layla then talks about how she felt
“a little funny inside” when she say the shoots coming up because she thought about her
garden at home. She said she got excited because she was anxious to see her own plants.
She mentions that part of her garden is on the north side of her house and asks the
children “what does that mean?” One child says something about snow in the garden.
Then there is a discussion about the garbage and Layla says “I was dismayed which
means sad about the garbage situation. What can we do ourselves about the garbage
situation?” One of the children says, “tell people” and Layla asks how. Another child
says “we can make signs and put them everywhere.” Layla suggests that the children “do
that today.”
Meanwhile, Erica has found a book and tells the children that in the book it says that
there are three types of fog – smoky fogs, sea fogs and dew drop fogs. Erica continues to
read out information about fog as Layla puts out sign making material. She also creates
some words related to the sign making for the word wheel. Erica has written out the ideas
the children had about fog on strips of Bristol board and gave it to the children who are
going to write the words themselves.
The meeting time was finished at 10:20.