In March, I started incorporating question of the day. Each day a question is posted and each child answers the question by voting with their name tag. It is a great exercise in receptive language (hearing and understanding the question) expressive language (answering the question appropriately) and when we discuss the question at circle time, we incorporate counting, comparisons, and graphing.
During our unit on planting seeds and gardens, the first question was "Which vegetable is your favorite" - which required interpretatation for many of the preschoolers as "which vegetable do you like". The children were then able to answer fairly easily. The next class, I changed the question to "Which vegetable is your least favorite" or "which one do you NOT like" and it was much more difficult for the students to answer. Many of them wanted to answer the vegetable that they did like, and even with one on one discussion, wanted to answer the question the same as the previous class period. This was very interesting to me, since preschoolers are usually very "un-filtered" about things they do and don't like, but presenting the question in this manner was very confusing to them. This is definitely a new concept to many of them, and one that I will make sure to incorporate into our work going forward.
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