Summer Report
Lesley Romanoff Lesley Romanoff

Summer Report

Remember summer days? Remember when there was nothing to do and also not enough time to finish doing nothing? Read books, watch leaves float down a stream, throw rocks, collect rocks, build houses and stores, or just sit and talk? So much nothing to do each day.

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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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Travel Light...City & Forest
Lesley Romanoff Lesley Romanoff

Travel Light...City & Forest

We travel light to city and forest, but we aren’t really traveling light, are we? We bring our own play histories with us and we share these with the children. We help them find ingredients for potions, sticks for fairy houses, leaves for letters and packages. We gift them with story and imagination.

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Let's Talk About Art
Lesley Romanoff Lesley Romanoff

Let's Talk About Art

Some of the children will grow up to be artists. And all of them, every single one, will know how to solve a problem, how to climb out on a limb, how to take a risk with expressing ideas in a visual medium to connect with other humans whether they are the artist expressing it or they are the viewer enjoying it.

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Mud Kitchen Recipes
Lesley Romanoff Lesley Romanoff

Mud Kitchen Recipes

I was good and stuck on the kale idea. Obviously.

“No. I think it’s called arugula? Yes, that’s it. Arugula,” the mud kitchen in the teepee was again open for business, “We have arugula now!”

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