Can you fix it?
The move from parallel to cooperative play was exemplified in this play around the snap blocks. The children listened carefully, gave suggestions and helped each other. It’s a hammer. It’s fixing a nail. – Tait Mine’s
Archive for 2017
From territories, to castles…
“This is a territory for animals.” GRAEME The water animals go in the water. The land animals go on the land. GRAEME I’ll put some rocks in the forest. MAREN I’m thinking about the butterflies.
Three Little Pigs, Part 2
Caroline, whispering conspiratorially: “I don’t think wolves cry; wolves live in the woods.” At meeting, we are continuing to enact a story that’s based on some children’s initial interest in the Three Little Pigs story. Here’s
“We are trying to measure…”
We are trying to measure how long that stick is on the milkweed. SEVI We will make one as long as it is. VIVIAN To see if it is as tall as Lauri and Emily. LYLA
Small Groups to Humming
We’ve been playing a face game at meeting. Diane holds up a picture of a child’s face and when we name the child, that child washes hands for snack. But sometimes she holds up an unexpected
Keep Her Safe
Welcome to Extended Day! One of the great pleasures of the Extended Day program is that children from all four studios get to join together, to eat lunch, relax and play. Over the first days of
“all the sand in the world is at the beach”
The power of We. In Dr. Laura Jana’s book The Toddler Brain she discusses at length about WE skills –people skills. What exactly are we meaning by that? To start, the skills to form relationships and the skills
Waiting for Wings
Our long awaited butterflies nestled safely in their chrysalises finally began showing signs of emerging. Watching closely as we wait… “Caterpillars make chrysalises and moths make cocoons.”–Margot “No, caterpillars make cocoons. The book I read said
Tape
Children bring to the exploration of tape their own understandings of its properties and functions. Through their work together, the potential and the vocabulary of the material expands, opening new ways of relating to this ordinary