“It looks like we could climb on it.”
As we began to research the work of Sheila Pepe, the children noted that the installation “looked like we could climb on it!” The configuration of the shoelaces, rope and yarn created placement for our feet
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“We made a city!”
When we last left off on the building and city thread, the children had just visited Saul Melman’s Best of All Possible Worlds sculpture (other wise known as The Doors) and each of them had done
Hooked on Snakes!
These curvy snakes have wiggled their way into our play in a number of ways . . . Here is what we (the teachers) did: We originally introduced snakes because we expected that children would be
A Senior Moment
A group of senior citizens from The Commons came to school today to read to the children (One Snowy Night and Emily’s Snails). Studio Purple joined us. While we waited for everyone to arrive and get settled,
“I’m so excited to see her shadows that she made!” (part 1)
Not too long ago, we stumbled upon thinking about shadows as we explored our Overhead Projector. Taking this wondering we asked the children to tell us What do you know about shadows? “They just appear!”
Arguing!!!
Each year around this time children seem to engage in arguments that require facilitation. It becomes a power struggle that may evolve into arguing for the sake of arguing! On Tuesday while reading The Black Rabbit
June, 2018 – LNS Creates Interactive Installation: Encountering
In the fall of 2017, John Ravenal, Director of deCordova, challenged the LNS faculty to create a piece for the sculpture park based on our work with the children. This fortuitously coincided with our umbrella topic:
Real Artists
Jumping off from our visit with Ian McMahon and the children referring to him as a “real” artist, we wondered more about what this means. “You know what to do and you make stuff fancy and
“I just can’t read!”
Picture books are invaluable in our preschool environment. Personally, neither of us has outgrown our own love of picture books and continue to amass an extensive collection to this day! Yes, we are both educators and