I received this email from Carol Cowie and Judy Hawtin in Nelson New Zealand

At Clifton Tce School in Nelson we have Discovery time with my Year 1 class and the Year 0 class next door. Last Friday we had a focus on washing. We read "Saturday Morning: form the Ready to Read series and then watched two "Mrs Wishy Washy" stories, by Joy Cowley, on Youtube.

The Key competency was cooperation. We had our cars for the children to wash plus they could wash the dress ups. It was a very successful and enjoyable Discovery time. There were lots of opportunities to practise cooperation. We also have photographers each session. At sharing time we download the photos and watch them in a slide show.
 

WE really enjoy our DIscovery time and feel that it is such an important part of the week... thought some other teachers might like this idea.

Check out their school blog sites

http://room6cliftontceschool.blogspot.com/ and http://cliftontce72011.blogspot.com/

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We would love more of these stories you are all so creative and imaginative

Please send them in to us. email: discoveryt@gmail.com