"We can all get turns!"

On the first day of school, the children were so excited with all the new toys that we have in our classroom. We noticed that there were many children crowding some of the more popular baskets of toys.  This was not going to work...hmmm.

We gathered a few children and discussed how if that many children are playing at each basket it can make it hard for everyone to fully be involved with the toy. We began to brainstorm ways to have meaningful play with this many children and this many toys available. The children came up with some ideas, "how about if at each basket, only two children play at a time", " how about if we have switching time? this way we can all get turns!"  Wow! We are off to a great start with problem solving already.

Now, all our friends get turns to play, two at a time with these specific materials. The children seem happy and peace reigns in Kitah Gimmel.