Each Experience Preschool lesson includes a Daily Conversation Poster to introduce the children to the new lesson. The posters feature real photos of people, animals and things. Show the Daily Conversation Poster and use the prompts in the Experience Preschool Teacher Guide to encourage children to share what they know and wonder when introducing new lessons with Daily Conversation Posters.
What is the Daily Conversation Poster?
Daily Topic Posters feature a photo and word that communicatues a new big idea from the monthly Theme Web Poster to investigate together. These posters provide a visual tool to help teachers introduce and begin to discuss the big idea during Circle Time.
Then, throughout the day the art, music, games and projects connect with this daily topic. This helps children build vocabulary and learn about this new big idea through play and sensory experiences.
How to Introduce New Lessons with Daily Conversation Posters
Where to Hang the Daily Conversation Poster
Hang the Daily Conversation Poster up each morning in the Circle Time space or another area where children and families can both see what the daily topic will be. This provides some context to the day’s events, creates excitement for the topic and provides a talking point for children and families at drop off and pick up time.
How to Use the Daily Conversation Poster During Circle Time
Early in the day, hang the Daily Conversation Poster so the children can anticipate the day’s activities. READ What is Circle Time?
During Circle Time, the Daily Conversation Poster is displayed in the Circle Time space. After the children have gathered, introduce the topic of your day and encourage children to share their ideas about it. You can have a conversation or write down the children’s responses in a list on paper or a dry erase board. This is an excellent way to demonstrate writing in front of children and shows the importance of their responses.
Learn how to Set Up Your Circle Time Display.
Your role during the discussion is to offer the child multiple sensory ways to participate and express their ideas in the discussion. You may want to bring an object that relates to the Daily Topic to Circle Time to show the children or to have them handle and explore. For example, if the Daily Conversation features a monarch butterfly, you may bring a butterfly toy or butterfly lifecycle models.
The children can engage in a variety of ways during the Circle Time discussion with the use of a Daily Conversation Poster. The Experience Preschool Teacher Guides provide questions and prompts for Circle Time discussions around the Daily Topic.
Daily Conversation Posters Encourage Literacy Skills
Introduces New Vocabulary
The poster features a beautiful real life photo and text of the person, place or thing. This creates a connection for children who are learning new vocabulary.
Supports Discussion
The Daily Conversation Poster is one of the first tools you will use in the Experience Preschool curriculum each day. It supports discussion with children and families, between children or between the educator and the children. Verbal exchanges are important to a child’s language development. Read more about Supporting Discussions at Circle Time.
Additional Ways to Use the Daily Conversation Posters
Create a Weekly Display
Display the Daily Conversation Posters on the wall or a bulletin board so the children can continue to see and reference them. Add art around them, or display them around the classroom.
By hanging up these photos throughout the month – the children can see their knowledge grow and helps to build memory and recall for what they’ve experienced throughout the month.
Make a Theme Book
If you have limited wall space, create a book out of the posters. Insert the pages into page protectors and pop them into a binder. It can live in the libary or writing center.
Create Family Involvement Opportunities
Post the Daily Conversation Poster the entry for parents to see daily topic. Then invite family participation by posting the discussion question on a dry-erase board for the parents to answer. Or play Would You Rather? and have families vote on a question relating to the topic.
