Hope Springs Eternal
Her clothes-choice sent the signal and she felt that this signal was loud and clear, but it didn't work as well as she thought it would. This is how we found out about her plan--she hit a wall--why hadn't anyone noticed her Ninja-ness? Why hadn't the focus of all her attention noticed her Ninja-ness especially!
The Christmas Tree #playiceland Guest Post!
A guest post from our friend, Unnur Henrys at Leikskólinn Stekkjarás in Iceland. She tells of the children's adventures with a recycled Christmas Tree. Here is her post and photo set of the what adventures this Christmas Tree brought the children of her school.
Superheroes Save Us (Again)
It is not my job to change the storyline or even to create the storyline adding details that I know and that they may not. This is the children's domain. I can only help them find the keys to the play -- to change how they try to enter the play. Superheroes to the rescue!
This is Ours
The older children, the Tracks, were quite concerned about cutting up the tree while the younger Leaves wanted an inventory of our saws because they would need A LOT of saws to get the work they had in mind done. The only thing left to do is to make sure the structures are waterproof!
There can only be one Clara and other tales from nursery school
As you can imagine, when he declared, "I am Clara and there can only be one," more than one taffeta-clad person stopped in their high-heeled tracks and said, "That's not true. I am Clara," and "No, I am Clara." Rather than playing the who is the real Clara, we launched into a conversation about how many Claras the play would support.