Storytelling, The Forever Story
Lesley Romanoff Lesley Romanoff

Storytelling, The Forever Story

The class journal, “The Forever Story” is amazing from the first page to the last. It’s so interesting to read how the children embraced this method of collective story telling and offered their own, unique and lovely additions to a story that goes on forever.

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Yellow Jacket Sisters
Lesley Romanoff Lesley Romanoff

Yellow Jacket Sisters

Three children had been stung by yellow jackets. The stings had not happened at school, but the memories and the desire to not be stung again ruled the day(s). Play and story came to the rescue.

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Stories 'round the Campfire
Lesley Romanoff Lesley Romanoff

Stories 'round the Campfire

On these cold days, the children don't sit for a long time at the fire. The children get on with the work of their day, their play. Today, there was such joy in the cold air.

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Becoming a reader
Lesley Romanoff Lesley Romanoff

Becoming a reader

While the reading of a book holds great value, holding the story close in order to more fully explore the imaginings of the author's tale is an even greater value.This is how a child becomes a reader.

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The Future is Here
Lesley Romanoff Lesley Romanoff

The Future is Here

We have the future inside the walls and garden of our little cooperative school. We know the future surrounds us and is being cared for carefully. And here it is about community and the strength of "we." The future may not be evenly distributed, but it will be. Yes, it will and it will start with "we."

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