All Things CLASS

I was on a call with long-time CLASS trainer, @Melissa Wilhelm, yesterday. We were talking about all those teachers out there who are providing virtual instruction and supporting children at home. She posed an excellent question:

What at-home materials could you use in order to facilitate Instructional Support interactions? Using those materials, what questions might you ask to promote higher-order thinking, encourage language use, or scaffold learning? 

We thought: who better to ask than our knowledgeable CLASS Community? Let's get a brainstorm going: What are some different ways to integrate Instructional Support interactions with children in virtual settings, using the at-home materials that children may have access to? 

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Emily Doyle
Director of Program Management
Teachstone
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Healthy At Home (ReadyRosie) videos are very good examples of games and activities that families can do at home, or teachers can lead via Zoom etc.
https://healthyathome.readyrosie.com/en/

I am also a huge fan of Erikson Institute's Early Math Collaborative, and they have excellent math activities that flow naturally from non-academic settings.
Idea Library

Erikson Institute Early Math Collaborative		remove preview
Idea Library March 17, 2021 A good sense of the number ten is critical for building young children's reasoning strategies. Here we see kindergarteners making the number ten on a rekenrek, a tool with red and white beads in groups of 5s with 10 beads on each row. View this on Erikson Institute Early Math Collaborative >

P.S.  Also agree that almost anything the child is interested in can be valuable learning material.  "WWREPD?"  (What would a Reggio Emilia preschool do?) LOL.  I did ask my sole remote student last winter to tell me something she's been thinking about lately, and she said pancakes.  Next couple of Zooms had at least 2 pancake connections each time. Although no actual pancakes...

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Mars Caulton
Chicago IL
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Desde la estructura de la vivienda hasta los materiales o artefactos de uso cotidiano pueden brindarnos gran información y ser objetos de aprendizaje para los niños. podemos iniciar la actividad con observaciones simples sobre colores forma y usos de materiales conocido por los niños guiándoles luego a preguntarse los por que posiblemente de su forma tamaño o color. Explorando además de acuerdo a su interés su contenido materiales con los que fueron creados y posiblemente hasta su ubicación que otros usos se les pude dar.

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Feliciano Serrano
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