I wonder…….. what’s inside??

Excitement, curiosity and wonder

Opening the classroom door to P2…….whats inside?? Absolute pure excitement!! It takes me a few minutes to gather myself after such a lovely warm welcome…….

We start with an examination of the little cube boxes made the previous week, and open them up to see what is inside. Today I’ve brought a collection of sealed boxes, with small hints written on the outside of what we might find inside them………something to hold fragile things, a home, something warm, something (or someone) who is alive, things to hold things together and more. We listen and shake, we think and wonder, we guess and draw. Today I didn’t bring lava or fire, and I left the lizards, slugs and spiders at home. I wish I had thought of arms or magnets as things to hold things together.

We move outside of the classroom, into the corridors and visit the places we are not allowed to enter. At the treshold of these spaces we stop and wonder, across the doors of forbidden rooms P2 imagine and draw what is hidden inside.

There is a lovely energy, it is this and the curiosity and wonder children bring to projects that excites me, this spreads through the coridors today and everyone is asking what are we up to. We finish our day leaving the drawings where they are “so we can all wonder a little bit longer”.