The children enjoy coming into the classroom and having self-directed play. What this means is that they are able to choose their learning engagements themselves without prompting from the teacher.
Mrs. Katie put a pile of blank booklets on a table. Soon the table was filed with children "writing" their own stories. Some of the children decided to dictate to Mrs. Katie what they wanted written in their story, while others just wanted to let their pictures do the story telling.
Building and creating is a favorite thing in our class!