Active Learning

Learning is active!   It involves observing, touching, communicating, investigating, making comparisons, predicting and much more.  There is no end to the number of things to see, to hear, to touch and to understand.

Where there is excitement there is rarely silence.  Children and adults who are actively engaged in meaningful projects or in conversations are usually not aware of the sounds that surround them.   Their intense interest in what they are doing diminishes the sounds in the background.  Noise is usually only noticed by the outside observer who is not actively participating.

So parents, when you come into our classroom during times of active learning, don't just stand around.  Join in!  As soon as you are actively engaged in a project, the background noise will fade away.

Teresa Klumb