Intentional Interactions 

(Responding, Challenging, Extending)

I notice that you have used___ to build a___ .That reminds me of___.

Architects draw blueprints of a structure. How can you create a blueprint for someone to follow to rebuild your structure?

How does your design change when you use different materials?

How can you build a bridge/structure for a car/person/building to go over/under/through?

Are there any materials you can add to this structure to create more height?

How do different weights of materials and objects affect a structure?

Why might you need to adjust your plans as you build?

Tell me about your structure. Can I join in? Where should I start?

What is holding your structure together? Why does it work?

Where might we look to get more ideas for building?

I notice that some of the children are very frustrated. What are you finding difficult? How can we work together to solve this problem?

Intentional Interactions 

(Responding, Challenging, Extending)

Explain to me how to play at this ___. (e.g., grocery store)

How is this ___ (e.g., movie theatre) like a real ___?

Have you ever been to a real ___? How can we make this ___ more like real ___?

Can I join in? What role can I take? How did you decide who would take each role?

What kinds of things do you sell at this ___?

What tools would a person use in a ___? How can we let everyone know how to ___?

What is difficult or tricky about playing in this centre?

What kinds of materials do you need to make ___?

Intentional Interactions 

(Responding, Challenging, Extending)

I wonder what we might see if we look closely at ___. Describe what you see.

What kind of tools can we use to investigate the ___? Which tools worked best? Why?

Explain what you observe happening when you ____. What do you think will happen when you ___?

I wonder what might happen if you change the tool you are using. How can we record this?

What might you change next time in your design so that ____? (e.g., the car goes faster)

Did your investigation turn out the way you thought it would? Were there any surprises?

Why do you think it didn’t work as well as you thought it would? Can you make some changes?

Your results are exciting/interesting. How might you share this with other people?

I notice you used paper out of the recycling bin. What were your reasons for doing that?

What was hard for you during your investigation? How would you do things differently next time?

Intentional Interactions 

(Responding, Challenging, Extending)

I notice that you can balance on that log. How else can you move your body?

What are some different ways we can use the equipment on our playground?

I wonder what kinds of living things are on our playground. How can we find out?

What do you think the sky can tell us about predicting weather?

What do you notice about the outdoors today?

How can we use the materials and tools in the shed to create a structure? What else might we need?

How is our outdoor environment changing? How are you changing? What can you do now with your body that you couldn’t do before?

Intentional Interactions 

(Responding, Challenging, Extending)

How can you represent your thinking? (e.g., diagram, table, survey, graph, letter, sign, poster)

I wonder if others would be interested in hearing about this. How can we share?

Can we make a book about that? What would you take a picture of to communicate your ideas?

What sounds do you hear? Let’s stretch the word and listen.

Can we retell your story in pictures and words? Would you like to make some labels?

What do good writers do to get ready to write? (e.g., think, make a plan, listen, record)

Let’s make a list, so we can remember what we need or what we were thinking.

Is there a place in the room where you might find that word/letter?

Explain how ___ is like something you have seen/heard/experienced before.

I wonder why the author made that choice.

Intentional Interactions 

(Responding, Challenging, Extending)

How can you measure your _____?

How can you show the number _____? How is that number different from _____? Are there other ways to show the same number ______? Is there a faster way to count? (by 2’s, 10’s)

I wonder if there is a way we can count this group. Is there another way?

What would be a different way of arranging these ____? (e.g., size, shape, space)

How many ____ would it take to fill this ____?

What do you know about numbers? How do numbers help us?

Can we estimate how many ____ there are? I wonder how close your estimate will be.

Explain how to count a collection? Why is counting important?

How can we figure out how many shoes we would need for ____ people?

I notice that your structure is starting to look the same on both sides. Is there a way we can make it more symmetrical?

Is there a way we can divide these materials equally so we can all share?

Do you notice a pattern? Describe it. How can we extend the pattern? Where else do we see patterns in our world?

Intentional Interactions 

(Responding, Challenging, Extending)

In which ways can you move this material? Can we build something to move this material?

What do you notice about how this material feels/behaves/affects other objects?

Which tool would work best for___? Why?

What is different about this material from the other materials you have played with?

What do you think would happen if we added liquid to this material?

How can you change the shape of this material?

Is there a way that you can use this material to stick together another material?

How do tools help us to work with this material?

What happens if we change___?

What do you notice about___?

Intentional Interactions 

(Responding, Challenging, Extending)

How can you represent your idea through art? What materials might you use?

How can you create sound? Is there a way to put sounds together to create a composition?

In which ways can you move your body? How can you move just your ___? (e.g., arms, legs, fingers)

How would you represent a feeling in art/sound/dance/drama?

How do you feel when you move ___? (e.g., quickly, sharply, with heavy feet and arms, light as air)

Where do we see lines in our classroom/outside/in our bodies/in art?

Can you use your body to represent how the character may have felt in the story?

How does a performance change when we change the voice? (e.g., squeaky, soft, whispery, loud)

How do changes in the properties of paint change how we create (e.g., with sand or water added)

What types of materials or tools can we use to make our performance better?