{"id":3186,"date":"2016-04-22T16:08:57","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T16:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elc.utdev1.wpengine.com\/?p=3186"},"modified":"2024-09-20T20:41:54","modified_gmt":"2024-09-21T00:41:54","slug":"2016-eli-update-preschoolkindergarten-offerings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cehhs.utk.edu\/elc\/2016\/04\/22\/2016-eli-update-preschoolkindergarten-offerings\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 ELI Update: Preschool\/Kindergarten Offerings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3187\" src=\"http:\/\/cehhs.utk.edu\/elc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/04\/prekKbanner.jpg\" alt=\"prekKbanner\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Our ELC educators are busy preparing engaging sessions for our ELI participants. Read on to see what they are working on for this summer&#8217;s conference!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Hannah Louderback &amp; Travis Burnett \u00a0| Kindergarten<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Outside In: How Outdoor Discoveries Influence Kindergarten Curriculum<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Taking time to observe what children do outdoors\u00a0is crucial to our curriculum. Journey with us as we share how abundant outdoor time in kindergarten gave the children opportunities to make important\u00a0discoveries. In turn, the seemingly &#8220;unstructured&#8221; outdoor time became the basis of our science curriculum.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Tracy Lee | Preschool Demonstration Teacher | Maple Room<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Mountain Hill: Adventures to a Land Not So Far Away<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">What started as a quest to find cicadas around their school, led a group of preschoolers and their teacher to discover a small oasis within an otherwise urban setting. After enduring physical challenges and natural discoveries the children named this land Mountain Hill. Travel along and learn more about this yearlong journey that helped create not only a love and respect for the natural world, but an appreciation and understanding for the people within this small group community.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Katie Denton-Walls &amp; Emily Harlow | Preschool Teachers | East Classroom<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>\u201cWhy don&#8217;t our plants grow like theirs?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>The emergence of a project with preschoolers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">This is the story of how the presentation of a problem to a small group of children invigorated their sense of ownership and control over their garden. \u00a0Throughout this work the children engaged in collaboration and problem solving as they implemented components of the scientific process; hypothesis, experimentation, and analysis.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Kathyrn Humber &amp; Dilyn Hauck | Preschool Teachers | West Classroom<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Experiencing the Outdoors:\u00a0<\/strong><strong>A Journey with Preschoolers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">This session will focus on the many\u00a0languages that children use to\u00a0represent their knowledge and how a teaching team&#8217;s practice has evolved to better notice the natural ways that their children learn.\u00a0 The teachers will share details from actual work in the classroom and how focusing on stepping back to observe more and teach less has resulted in authentic discoveries.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Dave Roberts | Preschool Assistant Teacher | Maple Room<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>From Cicadas to Authors: An Exploration of Representation and Storytelling<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">A look at how an investigation of cicadas lead us into a yearlong book-making project. 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